French Exam Alert is a free, independent service that watches the public booking pages of 48 TEF Canada and TCF Canada test centres in 22 countries. When a seat, a new date, a registration window or a waitlist opens, we email you. You always book on the centre’s own website.
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Why we built French Exam Alert
#Getting a French test seat for Canada is often harder than the test itself. At busy centres, dates fill in minutes. Some centres announce registration windows, others post new dates without warning, and seats from cancellations can reappear at any time.
Most people end up refreshing several websites every day, sometimes for weeks. That’s tiring, and it’s easy to miss the moment a seat opens.
So we built a tool that does the refreshing for you. French Exam Alert checks each centre every 90 seconds to 15 minutes, around the clock, and sends one clear email when something changes.
What we do, and what we don’t
#- Watch public booking pages around the clock
- Email you within seconds of spotting a change
- Remind you 24 hours and 30 minutes before an announced window
- Publish free tools and guides based on official sources
- Gather upcoming exam dates by country from each centre’s own page
- Book seats or hold places for you
- Ask for your passport, or see your card number (Pro payments are handled by our payment provider)
- Log in to centre accounts or get around CAPTCHAs
- Sell or share your email address
How is it free?
#The free plan emails you about up to 3 centres, with every alert type and no card needed. There are no ads on the site and we don’t sell your data.
Pro is for people who want to watch more centres at once: alerts for every centre you pick, sent first in each batch. It costs $15 for a 3-month pass or $7 a month. Pro payments keep the servers and the email running, which is what keeps the free plan free.
Our principles
#- Public data only. We read what any visitor can see on a centre’s website. We never log in, never book and never bypass a CAPTCHA.
- Polite to centres. We check each website at a gentle pace, one request at a time, so we never slow it down. See how.
- Honest data labels. Live information says Live · checked X ago. Anything that isn’t fresh is marked Sample snapshot. We never pass off an example as real.
- Nothing sensitive. We only need your email. Never your passport number, and your card details go to our payment provider, never to us. The privacy policy lists exactly what we keep.
- Book on the official page. Every alert links to the centre’s own site. That’s the only place you should pay.
- Independent. We’re not affiliated with IRCC, France Éducation international, Le français des affaires (CCI Paris Île-de-France) or any test centre.
Where our information comes from
#Score tables and rules come from IRCC’s official pages. Exam formats come from the exam providers. Centre details come from each centre’s own website. We re-check them regularly and date every page.
Read more about how we monitor centres and check facts.
Contact us
#Want to stop alerts? Use the one-click unsubscribe link in any email, or manage your watches on My alerts. Common questions are answered in the FAQ, terms like NCLC or convocation in the glossary, and the fine print in our terms of use.