Duolingo Score and A1, A2, B1, and B2 Levels: How to Interpret Your Progress

To interpret your Duolingo Score, think of it as progress through the course, not as an exam grade. The Duolingo Score for the course and a certified result from the Duolingo English Test are different things.

What Duolingo Score Measures

Duolingo Score represents progress in the course content and offers a more detailed measure than the CEFR levels.

The CEFR is divided into six levels: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2.

Duolingo Score increases by completing lessons and advancing through the course units.

The official explanation of Duolingo Score allows you to place that progress within a broader reference. Use it to guide your next study goal, not as proof that you will master any situation at the indicated level.

How to Interpret A1, A2, B1, and B2

• The official table places A1 in the range of 0 to 29 of Duolingo Score.
• The official table places A2 between 30 and 59.
• The official table places B1 between 60 and 99, divided into two ranges.
• The B2 level content corresponds to a Duolingo Score of 100 to 129.

Read these intervals as a correspondence with the course content. Avoid turning them into an automatic statement about your performance in a conversation, interview, or exam.

To give it practical use, choose a task related to what you are studying: explain a routine, tell an experience, or defend an opinion. Try to do it without relying on exercise answers and note what you need to practice. It is a study proposal, not a certified evaluation.

Do All Courses Reach B2?

The Duolingo Score scale goes up to 160, but that does not mean all courses include content up to that point.

Duolingo announced content up to B2 for most students of nine languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese; it does not equate to all courses or accounts.

Check the path that appears in your course before setting a goal; Duolingo's announcement of advanced content does not by itself certify what content is enabled in your account.

Where to See the Score and How to Advance

In courses aligned with the CEFR, the Score help places it next to the course flag; for a new course, it indicates completing unit 1.

If you don't find it, first check the course and your starting point. Do not assume you need a paid subscription or that there is a failure just because the number does not appear.

To organize yourself, take the upcoming units and the content you want to work on as a reference. Do not establish an equivalence between a number of study days and a guaranteed increase in the Score.

Score, XP, and Streak: What Each Means

XP are experience points obtained by performing activities and are used in rankings; they are not Duolingo Score.

The streak counts the consecutive days of study; it does not measure the same as the course progress represented by Duolingo Score.

The official guide to Duolingo's functions explains these indicators separately. Do not use XP or the streak to deduce a CEFR level: return to the course reference and contrast it with what you need to practice.

Does the Score Serve as an English Certificate?

Do not present the course number as a certified result of the Duolingo English Test nor assume an equivalence of scores between the two.

If your goal is to certify English, the next step is to inform yourself about the exam and the requirements of the entity requesting the certification. You can start with Sharingful's introduction to the Duolingo English Test; then check the specific conditions in the official sources of the exam and the recipient institution.

Keep this distinction: use the Score to interpret your learning journey and treat certification as a separate inquiry.