# How do I read the learning report given by the teacher?

**In short**: The learning report is a three-page PDF that the teacher or the school office produces after a test, then gives to you. It gives the level, the radar, the seven skills and some leads.

**Who this is for**: Parents who have received their child’s learning report and want to know what each part means.

**What you need first**:
- A test completed by the student.
- The report itself, given by the teacher or by the school. You cannot produce it yourself.

## The steps

1. Ask your child’s teacher or the school office for the report.
2. Open the PDF file you are given.
3. Page 1: read the global level, the radar and the “Test sheet”.
4. Page 2: read “The seven skills”, then “Leads for the classroom”.
5. Page 3: read “Understanding this report”.

The student cannot generate this report from their own area, and TestFLE does not email it to anyone: the school produces it and gives it to you. The teacher chooses its language (French, English, Spanish or Chinese). They can add a comment to it.

## What each page contains

**Page 1, the summary.** At the top, the title “Learning report” together with the student’s name, then the subtitle “TestFLE French placement test,” and the date of the test. Then come:

- the identity: “Student”, “School reference”, “School” and “Test date”;
- the global level, with its range and a sentence that describes this level, then the comprehension level;
- the yellow box, if there is one: test stopped a little early, or taken without reading;
- the radar, along with “Strengths to build on” and “To consolidate first” (or “Even profile: the seven skills sit in the same zone.”);
- the “Test sheet”: the version taken, the number of answers, the duration and how the test stopped.

![First page of the learning report: identity, global level, radar, strengths to build on and test sheet](https://www.testfle.com/medias/aide/en/familles-eleves/lire-le-bilan-pdf-page-1-1240.webp?v=c3baca2c8f)

**Page 2, the detail.** “The seven skills” are arranged in three groups: “What the student understands”, “The tools of the language” and “Where the two meet”. Each skill has its level, the number of questions asked, a sentence on what it measures and a bar that places the range on the scale from A0 to B2. A skill that was not assessed carries the note “not assessed”.

Next come “Leads for the classroom”, then, when the teacher has written one, “Your teacher’s comment”. If your child has taken at least two tests, “Progress over time” shows the level of each one.

![Second page of the report: the seven skills in three groups, leads for the classroom, the teacher’s comment and progress](https://www.testfle.com/medias/aide/en/familles-eleves/lire-le-bilan-pdf-page-2-1240.webp?v=c444f64f25)

**Page 3, the guide.** “Understanding this report” explains how to read the radar, sums up each skill in one line and recalls, under “Key points”, that each result is a band and that a “not assessed” skill is a limit of the test. The page ends with an “About TestFLE” block and a QR code that leads to www.testfle.com.

![Third page of the report: Understanding this report, Key points and the About TestFLE block with its QR code](https://www.testfle.com/medias/aide/en/familles-eleves/lire-le-bilan-pdf-page-3-1240.webp?v=1aa602508c)

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## Understanding the report

### Who produces the report, and why not the family?

The report is a school document. The teacher or the school office produces it from the student’s sheet and chooses the language each time. If no language is chosen, it is the language of the student’s account, otherwise the school’s, otherwise French. The document carries the school’s name and, when the school has one, its logo.

The report covers the student’s last completed test. For another test, the school has to produce a new one.

### How do I read the radar?

On the radar, the further a point is from the centre, the higher the level. On the left, in blue, is what the student does with French: understanding spoken French, understanding written French, linking sounds to writing. On the right, in green, are the tools they rely on: vocabulary, grammar, conjugation. At the top is the logic and interpretation of the language, which belongs to both.

The “Strengths to build on” and the skills “To consolidate first” are drawn from the clear gaps between the skills. When these gaps are small, the report writes “Even profile”.

### What are the “Leads for the classroom”?

They are objectives the child found harder, with the number of correct answers, for example “1 correct out of 3”. The report itself says: “They rest on few questions: they are hypotheses to check in class, not measurements.” If nothing was spotted, it writes “No particular difficulty identified.”

### What does “Your teacher’s comment” mean?

It is the comment the teacher wrote when producing the report. It appears under the title “Your teacher’s comment” followed by their name, and only if they wrote one. Its length is limited to 1,500 characters.

### What is the “Test sheet”?

It sums up the test in one sentence, for example “Adaptive test, short version: 24 answers in 18 min, stopped once the target precision was reached.” The “short” version corresponds to lightning mode, the “precise” version to precise mode, and the “no-reading” version to the test taken without reading. The next sentence recalls what the test measures: comprehension and the tools of the language. It does not assess written production, oral production or interaction, which only the teacher can judge.

### What if the test is in an older format?

A test taken with the previous engine gives a simpler report: “Overall result” and “Skills overview”, with no range and no radar, and with a note saying that it comes from the previous engine.

### The detailed report

The school can also give you a “Detailed learning report”. It repeats the levels and adds each question asked, with the student’s answer and the expected answer. The version meant to be given to the family does not contain how the test session went (page exits and calls to the teacher).

> **Good to know**: If your child took the test without reading, several skills carry the note “not assessed”: it is a limit of this form of the test, never a shortcoming of the child. The article [the no-reading test](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/no-reading-test) explains it.

## Related articles

- [How do I read my child’s results on their home screen?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/reading-the-results): The student’s “Home” screen sums up their last test: seven skills, radar, global level and results curve. It fills in after the first completed test, never with a cancelled test.
- [What do the global level, the band and the steps (A1, A2, B1) mean?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/understanding-the-global-level): TestFLE places the student on nine steps from A0 to B2.2, plus one step beyond, which extend the CEFR levels. The result is a range, the band, and not a single point.
- [How does the test work for a child who cannot read yet?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/no-reading-test): When the school marks a child as a “Non-reader”, they take a form of the test in which every question can be done without reading. The results say so, and reading comprehension is not assessed.
- [What do the words used in TestFLE mean (step, band, lightning mode…)?](https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/glossary): This glossary explains, in one to three sentences, the words students and their families come across in TestFLE, from step to lightning mode. It also links the student’s words to the teacher’s.

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Written by the TestFLE team. Updated 12 November 2026.
https://www.testfle.com/en/help/families-students/reading-the-pdf-report