Adaptive · about an hour

Duolingo English Test practice

The DET changes difficulty as you answer, which means practice at a fixed level rehearses a test you will not sit. Ours moves with you, and the writing and speaking samples come back marked rather than recorded and forgotten.

Free plan, no expiry · every exam on one paid plan from $14.99/month

The format we run on

Adaptive graded section
About 45 minutes
Speaking and writing sample
About 10 minutes
Difficulty
Follows your answers, item by item
Item pacing
Timed per item, as the real test is

Reported as10–160, in steps of 5

What you get

Generated for your attempt, every attempt. Nothing here is a stored paper being handed round.

Adaptive difficulty

Items are pitched at a CEFR rung and the rung moves with your answers, so the practice stays at the edge of what you can do instead of drifting easy.

Reading and Listening

The DET item types, generated fresh, 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

20 seconds to prepare, then 30 to 90 seconds — 30 is the exam's own minimum, 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.

TaskPrepareAnswer
Spoken response20 s30–90 s

Four subscores, not one number

The DET reports 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 of the four is holding you back, which is the only thing worth knowing before you book the test again.

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Enough to judge it

  • One section practice a day
  • Two writing and two speaking evaluations a month
  • The explanation and the proving line for every answer
  • Your last 7 days of practice
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  • Unlimited practice and unlimited marking
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  • Which question type keeps costing you marks, across everything you have sat
  • Your complete record, kept

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Questions, answered

Is the Duolingo English Test practice free?

Yes. One section practice a day plus two writing and two speaking evaluations a month, with explanations for every answer. No card, no expiry.

Is the practice adaptive like the real test?

Yes. Items are generated at a CEFR level and the level follows how you are actually doing, rather than staying where you started.

Are these real Duolingo English Test questions?

No. Everything is generated for your attempt. The DET is heavily protected against item sharing, and generating fresh 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.

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