A structured A1 to A2 curriculum that ends in a scored TCF or TEF Canada mock, and boards that rank you on what you scored rather than on how long you sat there.
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Which of these two sentences is correct?
Ten A1 modules build the machinery. Sixteen A2 modules put it under the load of an administrative life, and the last one is the exam.
Self-study does not fail on material. It fails on the decision about what to do next, so Parcours makes that decision once and never asks again.
A mini-dialogue shows the session's job (saying how long, refusing politely, reporting what someone said) before the grammar point that makes it possible is named. Never two points in one session, because two is how one session becomes three.
Exercises are generated against the module's CEFR can-do statements, so a wrong answer resolves to a named gap rather than a percentage. Handwriting the production step is recommended, and in the exam room it is not optional.
The last session of every module covers the whole of it and gates the next one. Failing it returns you to your two weakest sessions. A gate that never closes measures nothing, which is precisely what a streak counter is.
The ranking key is your measured NCLC and the error bar around it, taken from a marked mock section. Not minutes, not points, not a streak. A board you can climb by turning up is a board that measures turning up.
Start one, send the link, and the people you learn alongside are ranked together. A group is visible only to its members, so a small board of friends stays a small board of friends.
You are ranked from the start and listed by name only when you choose to be, which takes a handle you pick. Everyone sees where they stand; nobody is put on display for it.
Until a mock section has been marked there is nothing to rank you on, so the board says so instead of placing you at the bottom. An empty result is not a bad one, and a board that scored it as zero would be measuring attendance again.
The final module is an adaptive mock in official TCF and TEF Canada formats. It maps ability to a CEFR band and converts that band to the NCLC score range your Canadian immigration file is assessed against. Where the evidence is thin, the range widens instead of guessing. That same measurement, error bar included, is what places you on your boards.
*A result measured here is practice, not an official one. Only a TCF Canada or TEF Canada sitting at an approved test centre produces a score IRCC will accept, and the CEFR to NCLC conversion used here is an approximation. What that means.
A2 converts to NCLC 4 to 5. That is the honest ceiling of an A1 and A2 curriculum, and it is what Parcours teaches to.
Programmes that promise B1 in six months are selling an exam result their material cannot produce. You find out in the exam room, which is the worst possible place to find out.
It is already written. Nothing is gated behind a trial or a quiz about what kind of learner you are.