Free Duolingo English Test practice
Train the short reading, listening, writing and speaking tasks used by the adaptive DET. Practise the interface and timing without pretending a fixed worksheet can reproduce an adaptive official score.
New to the exam? See the current Duolingo English Test format, task types and one-hour adaptive flow before choosing a skill.
Choose the right place to start
Match the practice path to the test version and score goal you actually need.
Understand adaptive scoring
Question difficulty changes with your responses, and the score accounts for both performance and item difficulty. Learn what that means for practice.
See how DET scoring worksTrain timed listening tasks
Build accurate transcription and comprehension under the short timers used by the current task families.
Start DET listening practiceRecord speaking responses
Use original prompts, local recording and playback to improve relevance, development, fluency and pronunciation.
Start DET speaking practiceReading
356 questions
Skim, scan and match — multiple choice, true/false/not given, gap-fills and re-ordering.
Open readingListening
547 questions
Catch the answer on a single play — conversations, lectures and dictation.
Open listeningWriting
166 questions
Essays, letters and summaries, with an instant band estimate and written feedback.
Open writingSpeaking
All current task types · private recorder
Original timed prompts, local recording, playback and honest self-assessment without a fake official score.
Open speakingGuides for Duolingo English Test
Sourced, dated explainers — format, scoring, and the rules that quietly cost marks.
Duolingo English Test practice questions
Is the Duolingo English Test adaptive?
Yes. The graded test changes item difficulty in response to performance. That is why two candidates can receive different question sequences while their scores remain comparable.
How long is the Duolingo English Test?
Duolingo describes the test as taking about one hour, including the graded adaptive portion and the later speaking and writing samples.
Is this practice an official DET score predictor?
No. These drills build familiarity with task types, timing and response quality. Only the official adaptive test and official practice test can use Duolingo’s calibrated item bank to estimate a DET score.