You normally have to only need B2 is you can go to college and learn well.
B1 is you can travel to somewhere that speaks it and be ok enough and confortable with it.
C1 is you are great at it.
C2 is you're basically a native having learning it from outside.
I'm sorry to double tap you like that, but don't you mean "abstract" instead?
Btw, because it's relevant, I'm not a native speaker but I did pass my Cambridge assessment B2 during high-school, I had good writing and listening but terrible speaking, I could read novels but I could barely say hello, and I needed subtitles for Youtube. Now I passed C2, I can mostly understand original Shakespeare but I struggle, and I can have technical conversations in my domain (went working abroad). To give you a rough idea of European level (and France is considered very bad in English for European standards)
PS: feel free to correct any mistake I made, that'd be more than fair game.
I heard that French students were meant to have B2 level at the end of high school (baccalauréat général). Which didn't really track with the fact that, despite being a good student (16/20 average in English class, top of the class) I could not read an actual English book out of high school.
Learners who achieve B2 Upper intermediate level can:
understand the main ideas of complex texts on concrete or abstract topics, including some technical discussions
express themselves fluently and spontaneously enough to comfortably communicate with other English speakers
produce clear, detailed text on many subjects and explain a complex viewpoint on a topic, including expressing advantages and disadvantages.
From that, it translates to somewhere between 4th and 8th grade reading level, depending on which definitions of reading levels you look at
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u/Ordinary_Delay_1009 5d ago
Half of America is effectively illiterate.