Pack Ayoub or Français Prep?

Pack Ayoub is a TCF Canada preparation platform built around exam simulators and automated correction. It is popular for a good reason: it gives you volume and it answers immediately, at any hour, without waiting for anyone.

The real difference is not price or polish. It is who reads your writing and listens to your speaking. Pack Ayoub answers instantly and never gets tired. A person catches the thing you did not know to ask about. Those are different products, and a lot of candidates should use both.

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Pack Ayoub and Français Prep, compared honestly

Pack Ayoub and Français Prep, compared honestly: Pack Ayoub / Français Prep
What you are comparing	Pack Ayoub	Français Prep
What it is built around	Exam simulators and a large bank of practice items, with automated correction.	One exam, one target NCLC level, and the date you have booked.
Who marks your writing and speakingThis is the whole distinction. Everything else follows from it.	Automated feedback, returned immediately.	Adèle, by hand, in both live tiers.
TurnaroundTheirs genuinely wins here.	Instant, at any hour, as many times as you want.	Days, not seconds, and a finite number of tasks.
Volume of practice	Large. Volume is the point of the format.	Deliberately smaller. Ten texts marked properly beat forty written into a void.
What it catches	Errors it was built to detect, consistently, every time.	Register drift, a missing plan, an argument that does not land: the faults you cannot see because the text reads as you intended it.
Success-rate claims	Advertised. We cannot verify anyone's pass rate, including our own, and neither can you.	We publish none, for the same reason.

Français Prep is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with any organisation named on these pages. We describe them only in general terms that are publicly documented, and we do not quote their prices, because those are set independently and change. Verify anything that matters to your decision with the provider directly.

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Choose Pack Ayoub if

You want a lot of reps under exam conditions and you want them now.
You are early in preparation, where the fastest gain is simply doing more items.
Your comprehension sections are the problem, which is where automated marking is most reliable.
You study at hours when no human is going to answer you.

Choose Français Prep if

Your writing or speaking is the section holding your file below the line.
You have done a lot of practice already and stopped improving, which usually means you are repeating a fault nobody has named for you.
You need someone to tell you your date is unrealistic, which no simulator will.
You want the correction to explain why the other options were wrong, not just which one was right.

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What preparation here costs

Prices are in Canadian dollars and the same wherever you are sitting the exam.

Self-paced
The full lesson library plus timed practice tests for all four sections, worked on your own schedule.
CA$149one-time
One payment, no subscription. Lifetime access to the self-paced course.
Start self-paced
- Lesson library for all four exam sections
- Timed full-length practice tests
- Model answers for every writing and speaking task
- NCLC score tracker
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Small-group live
Weekly live classes with Adèle, in groups small enough that everyone speaks, plus marked writing and speaking.
CA$449per 8-week block
Covers all eight weeks, about CA$56 a class.
Join a small group
- Everything in self-paced
- Weekly live class with Adèle
- Marked writing submissions every week
- Marked speaking recordings every week
One-to-one tutoring
Private sessions scheduled around your test date, with a study plan built from your diagnostic results.
CA$950per 10 sessions
CA$95 a session, booked around your test date.
Book one-to-one
- Everything in small-group live
- Private sessions scheduled around your test date
- Study plan built from your diagnostic test
- Unlimited marked writing and speaking during your block

Not sure which tier fits? Book a free 15-minute video call.

Prices are in Canadian dollars and include any tax that applies. Exam registration fees are paid directly to your test centre and are not included in any tier.

Questions

About Pack Ayoub

Is Pack Ayoub any good?

By the shape of it, yes, for what it does. Simulators and a large item bank under a clock are a real way to prepare, and instant feedback at 2am is something no human service can offer. We are not going to pretend otherwise to sell you something.

Can AI mark writing and speaking properly?

It can catch a great deal, consistently, and it does not get tired on your fortieth text. What it is weaker at is the thing that actually caps most scripts: register drift, an argument arriving in the order it occurred to you rather than an order chosen to convince, a plan that was never made. Those are visible to a reader and hard to reduce to a rule.

Should I use both?

Plenty of candidates should, and we would rather say so. Use volume tools for comprehension and for reps under a clock, and spend human marking on the two sections where you cannot see your own faults. That is a better use of money than buying either one twice.

Which is cheaper?

We do not quote other providers' prices, because they change and they are not ours to publish. Ours are on this site. Compare against what you actually need rather than against a headline number: a cheap subscription you use for comprehension you were already fine at is not cheap.

Are you affiliated with Pack Ayoub?

No. We have no relationship with them, we are not a reseller, and nothing on this page is endorsed by them. We describe them from what they publish about themselves.

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