Adaptive · about an hour
Duolingo English Test practice
The real DET changes difficulty as you answer. Ours pitches each test at the CEFR level your last scored attempt earned — so it climbs with you across attempts rather than sitting at a fixed level, and the writing and speaking samples come back marked rather than recorded and forgotten.
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The format we run on
- Adaptive graded section
- About 45 minutes
- Speaking and writing sample
- About 10 minutes
- Difficulty
- Set from your last scored attempt
- Item pacing
- Timed per item, as the real test is
Reported as10–160, in steps of 5
This is the July 2025 format, not the one before it. Duolingo removed Read Aloud and Listen, Then Speak on 1 July 2025 and replaced them with Interactive Speaking. We stopped setting the two it removed, and Interactive Speaking is built: six questions across two topics, each one after the first written from what you have just said, thirty-five seconds an answer. We checked our whole task list against Duolingo’s own 2026 scoring guide on 31 August 2026, and Interactive Reading, Interactive Listening, Listen and Type and Summarize the Conversation are all built too. Interactive Writing is built as well, both steps: you answer a question in five minutes, then a second question written from your own answer in three, and the two are marked together as Duolingo marks them. So are the two photo tasks, with the one difference we choose on purpose: Duolingo’s photos are real, and ours are AI-generated, which the screen says beside every photo. We write each scene before the photo exists, so we know exactly what is in it, and your answer is marked against that list — the result shows what you described and what you left out. The score is the same score either way: 10–160 in steps of 5, unchanged by the redesign.
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What you get
Written for this product, never copied from a board or a book, and never a paper you have already sat.
A level that climbs with you
Items are pitched at a CEFR rung, and the rung moves up or down with the score you last earned — so the practice climbs as you do instead of drifting easy. Within a test the level holds steady; the real DET re-pitches every item.
Reading and Listening
The DET item types, written for this product, with the explanation and the proving line for every answer.
Writing
Marked against the traits the DET reports on, with your own sentences quoted back rather than a generic comment.
Speaking
Every task on its own published clock: 20 seconds to prepare and up to 90 to answer for Read, Then Speak; 20 seconds to look at the photo and up to 90 to describe it for Speak About the Photo; 30 seconds and up to three minutes for the Speaking Sample; no preparation and 35 seconds an answer in Interactive Speaking. The 30-second minimum answer is the exam's own, so it is a real threshold and not an invented one.
The Speaking clock
Taken from the published format and held to it. A clock that is generous by thirty seconds trains a habit that costs marks on the day.
| Task | Prepare | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Read, Then Speak | 20 s | 30–90 s |
| Speak About the Photo | 20 s | 30–90 s |
| Speaking Sample | 30 s | 30 s–3 min |
| Interactive Speaking | none | up to 35 s an answer |
Eight subscores, not one number
The DET reports four skill subscores — Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking — and four combined ones, Literacy, Comprehension, Conversation and Production, alongside the overall score, and universities increasingly read the subscores. Practice that returns one number tells you nothing about which skill is holding you back, which is the only thing worth knowing before you book the test again.
Enough to judge it
- One section practice a day
- One full timed mock of your free exam every 30 days, the first straight away
- Four writing and four speaking evaluations a month
- The explanation and the proving line for every answer
- Your scores and progress over time
- Sit a paper from your last 7 days again, as that day's practice
- No card, no expiry, no ads
All six exams, unlimited
- Unlimited practice and marking, within fair use
- Full-length timed papers
- Which question type keeps costing you marks, across everything you have sat
- A readiness estimate, and your last 50 papers to sit again
Questions, answered
Is the Duolingo English Test practice free?
Yes. One section practice a day, one full timed mock of your free exam every 30 days, and four writing and four speaking evaluations a month, with explanations for every answer. No card, no expiry.
Is the practice adaptive like the real test?
Partly, and the difference is worth knowing. Each test is pitched at the CEFR level your last scored attempt earned, so it follows how you are actually doing rather than staying where you started. The real DET re-pitches every single item as you answer; ours holds the level steady within one test.
Are these real Duolingo English Test questions?
No. Everything is written for this product, and nothing you have already met is served to you again. The DET is heavily protected against item sharing, and writing our own material is both the lawful answer and the one that makes a practice score mean something.
How accurate is the score?
It is a practice estimate, labelled as one, with the reasoning shown. It is not an official Duolingo result and no practice tool can issue one.
Is there a full Duolingo English Test mock?
Yes. It runs five sittings back to back — the reading tasks, an Interactive Reading passage, the listening paper, a writing task and a speaking task — each on its own clock, and reports the four skill subscores, the four combined ones and the overall on the 10-160 scale in steps of 5, as the DET reports them. No item you have already met is served again.
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