Does the TCF Canada Repeat Questions? The Truth About Exam Recalls

If you spend any time on Telegram groups or WhatsApp chats for Canadian immigration, you’ve seen the term "Recalls."

Candidates post questions they remember from their morning exam, and others frantically memorize them for their afternoon session. The logic is simple: If the TCF Canada repeats questions, knowing the "pool" is the ultimate shortcut to an NCLC 9.

But how true is this? Does the TCF actually repeat questions, and is relying on "recalls" a smart strategy or a dangerous gamble?

At PrepMyFrench, we’ve analyzed years of TCF data to give you the honest truth.

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1. The "Bank" System: How the TCF Works

The TCF Canada is not a "new" exam every day. It draws from a massive item bank of thousands of questions.

Does it repeat? Yes. Because the bank is finite, questions in the Listening and Reading sections do reappear. However, the probability of you getting the exact same 39 questions as someone who took the test last week is nearly zero.

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2. The Danger of "Memory-Only" Prep

We see it every month: A candidate memorizes a "recall" answer about a news report on "Urban Gardening." In their exam, they see a text about Urban Gardening and click Option B immediately.

The Trap: The TCF often uses the same theme but changes the questions. The text might be the same, but instead of asking "Why is it good?", they ask "What is the main obstacle?". If you memorized the answer to a different question, you will fail.

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3. The "Thematic Consistency" Strategy

Instead of memorizing specific questions, you should master Thematic Clusters.

The TCF consistently tests topics like:

• Environment & Ecology

4. Why "Repeated Questions Mastery" is Better

We’ve built a TCF Repeated Questions Mastery guide that doesn't just give you "recalls." It gives you the underlying logic of the themes that IRCC and France Éducation International (FEI) love to test.

We teach you the "Distractor Patterns" that remain constant even when the questions change.

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5. The PrepMyFrench Advantage

The TCF is a test of linguistic competence, not memory.

• Don't spend hours on Telegram hunting for blurry photos of exam screens.
• Do spend 30 minutes a day on our AI Simulators which use the same difficulty scaling and thematic weight as the real TCF.

Conclusion: Luck vs. Logic

Relying on repeated questions is like relying on the weather: It might work, but it’s not a plan. The only guaranteed way to hit an NCLC 9+ is to master the patterns and vocabulary of the exam.

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