Find your CEFR level in written German — A1 to C2 — in 15 minutes. A free 40-question screener mapped to the Council of Europe's can-do descriptors, with instant results and no email required to see your score.
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The test has 40 questions and takes about 15 minutes for most people. It moves from simple A1 items to demanding C2 ones, so pacing yourself is normal — there's no penalty for taking a moment on the harder questions near the end.
No. This is a written-German screener only — it measures reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary in text. It doesn't assess pronunciation, listening comprehension, or spoken fluency, so treat your result as a read on your written German specifically, not your overall spoken ability.
No. This is a free screening instrument mapped to CEFR's published can-do descriptors — it is not an accredited certificate and carries no official standing. If an employer, university, or visa process requires a certified score, you'll still need the Goethe-Zertifikat, TestDaF, or telc; this test is a fast way to gauge roughly where you stand before you invest in one of those.
The test uses neutral working German as spoken and written in Germany — no regional dialect. It uses du for everyday, informal items and Sie for workplace and formal ones, matching real usage. Standard orthography, including ß, is part of what's tested, but no question hinges on a ß-versus-ss distinction alone, so it doesn't unfairly penalize readers used to Swiss conventions.
Taking our test should not be viewed as a comprehensive or precise evaluation of your abilities. Results are for informational and self-reflection purposes only.
Find your CEFR level in written German — A1 to C2 — in 15 minutes. A free 40-question screener mapped to the Council of Europe's can-do descriptors, with instant results and no email required to see your score.
The JobCannon German Proficiency Test is a free, 40-question screener that places your written German on the CEFR scale — A1 through C2 — in about 15 minutes. It measures reading comprehension, grammar accuracy, and vocabulary range in written German only; it does not test listening or speaking, and it does not produce a certificate. Instead, each answer is scored against the Council of Europe's published can-do descriptors for the level it targets, so the result you get is a mapped estimate of where your written German currently sits, not a guess or a vibe. It's built as a fast, honest checkpoint — not a replacement for the Goethe-Zertifikat, TestDaF, or telc, which remain the accredited paths when an institution or employer requires a certified score.
The 40 questions climb in difficulty as you go, opening with everyday A1 vocabulary and closing with C2-level nuance — idiomatic phrasing, subordinate-clause structure, and register shifts that trip up even confident learners. Along the way you'll read short passages drawn from the kind of German you actually encounter — emails, notices, short articles — and answer questions on what they mean, not just what the individual words are. Grammar items focus on the parts of German that most reliably separate one CEFR level from the next: case endings, verb conjugation and position, separable verbs, and word order in subordinate clauses. There's no filler and no trick questions — every item targets one specific ability at one specific level.
The test is written in neutral working German — the register used in German offices, official documents, and everyday exchanges across Germany, not a regional dialect or a textbook's idealized dialogue. Where a question turns on address form, it follows real usage: du for everyday, informal items and Sie for workplace and formal ones, matching how the choice actually plays out in professional German. Standard orthography — including ß — is part of what's measured, since recognizing it correctly is part of literate written German. No question is decided by a ß-versus-ss distinction alone, so a reader used to Swiss German conventions, which drop ß entirely, isn't penalized for a spelling convention rather than a language gap.
Your result is a snapshot you can act on immediately: a CEFR level with a plain-language description of what it means in practice, plus a sense of where your strengths and gaps sit within it. That's useful whether you're sizing up your German before a job application in the DACH region, deciding which class level to enroll in, or just tracking progress since you last checked. Want to retake it later? The test draws from 5 parallel forms at matched difficulty, so a second attempt gives you a genuinely different set of questions — not the same 40 items with the answers half-remembered — while still landing on the same CEFR scale.
Get a CEFR level — A1 to C2 — based on the same published can-do descriptors examiners use, not an algorithm's best guess.
Read short German passages — emails, notices, articles — and answer the way real comprehension is tested, not just vocabulary recall.
Get tested on the grammar that actually separates CEFR levels: case endings, verb position, separable verbs, and subordinate-clause order.
See how well you read the du/Sie line — the register call that runs through every piece of workplace German.
Retake with confidence: 5 parallel forms mean a second attempt is a fresh 40 questions at matched difficulty, not a memorized repeat.
Get your level in about 15 minutes, with no email required to see the result.
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Find your CEFR level in written German — A1 to C2 — in 15 minutes. A free 40-question screener mapped to the Council of Europe's can-do descriptors, with instant results and no email required to see your score.
No signup needed — your result appears instantly.
The test has 40 questions and takes about 15 minutes for most people. It moves from simple A1 items to demanding C2 ones, so pacing yourself is normal — there's no penalty for taking a moment on the harder questions near the end.
No. This is a written-German screener only — it measures reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary in text. It doesn't assess pronunciation, listening comprehension, or spoken fluency, so treat your result as a read on your written German specifically, not your overall spoken ability.
No. This is a free screening instrument mapped to CEFR's published can-do descriptors — it is not an accredited certificate and carries no official standing. If an employer, university, or visa process requires a certified score, you'll still need the Goethe-Zertifikat, TestDaF, or telc; this test is a fast way to gauge roughly where you stand before you invest in one of those.
The test uses neutral working German as spoken and written in Germany — no regional dialect. It uses du for everyday, informal items and Sie for workplace and formal ones, matching real usage. Standard orthography, including ß, is part of what's tested, but no question hinges on a ß-versus-ss distinction alone, so it doesn't unfairly penalize readers used to Swiss conventions.
