Seven full Duolingo English Test mock tests
Each Duolingo mock test here is a complete test: about one hour, all 13 question types, and a full eight-subscore report at the end. Take them in any order.
- Built to mirror the real Duolingo English Test — the same question types, adaptive engine, timing and one-hour flow
- A real adaptive engine — difficulty moves with your answers
- AI-scored writing and speaking, with feedback on every response
Mock Test 1
A complete sitting in the real order, all eight sections. Questions run from easy to hard across the whole range, so wherever you are now, this one finds it.
Take test 1Mock Test 2
A completely separate set of questions. Nothing in this test appears in test 1 or test 3, so a second sitting measures you again rather than measuring what you remember.
Take test 2Mock Test 3
The third disjoint set, with its own passages, dictations, conversations and prompts. Same difficulty range and the same scoring, so its score compares directly with the others.
Take test 3Mock Test 4
The first test from our second question bank: new passages, conversations, photographs and prompts throughout. Nothing in it appears in any other test, so it measures you again rather than what you remember.
Take test 4Mock Test 5
Another complete sitting from the second bank, with its own reading sets, dictations and speaking prompts. Same difficulty range and the same scoring, so the score sits on the same scale as every other test.
Take test 5Mock Test 6
The sixth disjoint set. Use it as a final check before test day: like the other five it is equated to within two points, so the number is directly comparable with your earlier results.
Take test 6Mock Test 7
The seventh disjoint set, from a third question bank written to the same difficulty profile. None of its passages, dictations, conversations, photos or prompts appears in any other mock test or section test.
Take test 7All seven are free for a limited time. No card required.
How to take a Duolingo mock test online
Pick a test you have not taken
Start with Mock Test 1. The seven tests share no questions, so take a different one each time.
Give it an uninterrupted hour
A quiet room, nothing else open, your phone away. The real test is one sitting with no breaks, and a mock is most useful when it feels the same.
Allow the microphone when the speaking section starts
The test asks for it only then, before any speaking timer runs. No camera is used at any point.
Do not pause, and do not skip ahead
Every question has its own timer, as in the real test. Answer, then move on.
Read the report before the next test
Look at the eight subscores and the feedback on your writing and speaking, then work on the weakest skill with section practice before you take another mock.
Not sure which kind of practice you need? A full mock measures everything at once; a section test takes 14 to 18 minutes and drills one skill; each question-type guide has a short drill of its own.
What a full mock gives you that a drill cannot
Practising one task type tells you whether you can do that task. A full mock tells you something different and harder to get at: whether you can do all thirteen, in sequence, under timers, for an hour, without your accuracy falling apart in the last fifteen minutes.
That stamina is a real component of your score and it is invisible to drills. It is also the reason a paused practice test is worth much less than a completed one.
The other thing you only get from a full test is the interaction between skills. The adaptive engine builds one estimate from everything you do, and a weak stretch early steers the difficulty of what comes later.
What the official test looks like
Our mocks reproduce the scored portion of the real exam. It helps to know how that fits into the full hour, because two of the three official stages are not about your English at all. The Duolingo English Test format page breaks every part down.
- 5 minutes
Setup and ID verification
Checking your equipment and verifying who you are. Nothing here is scored, but a failure at this stage ends the session before it starts.
- 45 minutes
Scored assessment
The adaptive portion — all thirteen question types, difficulty responding to how you answer. This is what our mock tests reproduce.
- 10 minutes
Writing and speaking samples
The longer open-ended writing and speaking responses. These are scored, and they are also shared with the institutions you send results to.
How the official test is supervised
The DET is taken at home, which means the supervision happens through your camera, microphone and machine rather than through a person in the room. Duolingo publishes what that involves, and it is worth reading before test day rather than after.
Secure by design
The adaptive engine draws from a bank large enough that a test taker would need over 1,000 attempts to see a repeated question.
Comprehensive proctoring
Human proctors, assisted by AI, review each session for more than 75 distinct behaviours across multiple independent rounds.
ID verification
Computer vision, AI and trained proctors together verify each test taker's identity.
Test lockdown
The test is cancelled automatically if you try to open another application or plugin during it.
AI and data forensics
Security algorithms trained on millions of daily data points look for rule-breaking and suspicious patterns.
Video and writing sample
Accepting institutions can review a short video and a writing sample from your session.
None of this applies to our practice tests, which are not proctored and produce no official result. We mention it because the constraints shape how you should practise: if the real thing is one uninterrupted hour in a quiet room with nothing else open, that is what at least some of your mocks should be too.
What you get when you finish
Every mock returns the same eight numbers the official score report carries — Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, plus the four integrated subscores built from them — along with an overall score on the 10 to 160, in increments of 5 scale and the CEFR level it corresponds to.
Duolingo confirms the arithmetic we use: the individual subscores average to the overall score, and each integrated subscore is the average of two individual ones. The full explanation is here.
- An overall score with a range. The engine knows how uncertain it is, so it reports a band rather than pretending to a precision it does not have.
- All eight subscores, so you can see which skill is dragging the average — and whether a weak one would fail a per-skill minimum.
- Per-response feedback on every writing and speaking task: what was strongest, and the one thing worth fixing next.
- A ranked list of what to work on, which is the part that turns a score into a plan.
What these scores are and are not
DET Mock Tests is an independent practice platform with no affiliation to Duolingo, Inc. Scores produced here are not official Duolingo English Test results and carry no standing with any institution.
Why a score means the same on each
The tests do not differ in difficulty, and that is deliberate. A test that started harder would not measure a stronger candidate better — the engine already adjusts to you after every answer, so difficulty is set by your responses rather than by which test you picked. What changes between the seven tests is the content: every passage, dictation, conversation, photograph and writing prompt appears in one test only.
That is what makes a second sitting worth taking. If the tests shared items, your score would climb because you remembered them, and you would have no way to tell that apart from genuine progress. Because they do not overlap, the difference between your first score and your third is information.
| Test 1 | Test 2 | Test 3 | Test 4 | Test 5 | Test 6 | Test 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading passages | The library that lends tools; A school garden feeds the kitchen; Swimming in the harbour; The street as public space | Buses that run all night; The shared exterior; Why deliveries arrive late; Bread from the old bakery | Fewer bins, cleaner park; The village shop that reopened; A bridge for animals; Phones in a hospital waiting room | Conversation evenings at a café; The rise of escape rooms; A town that turned down its lights; Why we remember the first and last | A choir with no auditions; Speaking up in seminars; Why ice is slippery; Keeping seeds for the future | Race day for father and daughter; Bees on the town hall roof; Why self-tickling fails; When railways set the clocks | A radio show run by students; How octopuses change colour; Lighthouses without keepers; What tree rings record |
| Questions shared with the others | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Difficulty range | Full, A1 to C2 | Full, A1 to C2 | Full, A1 to C2 | Full, A1 to C2 | Full, A1 to C2 | Full, A1 to C2 | Full, A1 to C2 |
| Scored the same way | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Everything inside it | Mock Test 1 | Mock Test 2 | Mock Test 3 | Mock Test 4 | Mock Test 5 | Mock Test 6 | Mock Test 7 |
We check the equating by simulation: 300 simulated candidates at each of five ability levels sit all seven tests, and the largest gap between tests at any level is at most 2 points — while one candidate re-sitting the same test varies by about 11. So a 105 on one test means what a 105 means on the others.
How to get a number worth trusting
Give it a clean hour
The score assumes an uninterrupted sitting. Stopping halfway and resuming tomorrow measures something else.
Use a microphone
A quarter of your overall comes from speaking. Without a working mic those tasks cannot be graded and the estimate loses a whole skill.
Do not look anything up
The engine places you from what you can do unaided. A score you helped is a number you cannot use.
Finish every task
Partial credit is real and a blank is a certain zero. A rough answer beats no answer on every single task.
Writing and speaking are graded by a model against a rubric. That is genuinely useful for spotting a pattern across several answers, and less reliable than a human rater on any single one — so where the engine is uncertain, it widens the range it reports rather than hiding the doubt behind a single confident number.
Take any of them untimed
Every test above can be run without the timer. Nothing else changes — the same questions, the same adaptive engine, the same eight-subscore report at the end — you simply get as long as you want on each screen.
It is the right mode the first time you meet the format, when the aim is to understand what each task is asking rather than to find out whether you can do it in fifty seconds. Once the format is familiar, switch back: the clock is a real part of what the DET measures, and a score earned without it will read higher than the one you would get on the day.
Questions about the mock tests
Questions about the official test itself — ID, payment, sending results, the rules on the day — are answered in the Duolingo English Test FAQ.
What do I get when a mock test finishes?
An estimated overall score, all eight subscores (the four skills and the four combined subscores), and a breakdown of the items you got wrong. The score is the least useful part of that — the error breakdown is what tells you which skill to work on, which is the reason to take one at all.
Is a mock test proctored like the real DET?
No. There is no camera, no screen recording and no ID check — the only device a mock uses is your microphone, and only for the speaking tasks. The official test does all three under remote invigilation; our mocks reproduce the questions, not the proctoring.
Are the writing and speaking samples graded in a mock test?
Yes — our engine grades every writing and speaking response, which is how you get a subscore for each. On the official test the two end-of-test samples are rated by Duolingo's grading engine and also shared with the institutions you send results to, but you never see feedback on them; a mock gives you that feedback. How our grading works.
Are these mock tests really free?
All seven full-length mocks are free for a limited time, with no card required. We would rather have people using the thing and telling us where it is wrong than have a paywall in front of an engine we are still calibrating.
How long does a full mock test take?
About an hour, matching the real test. Duolingo publishes the official breakdown as 5 minutes of setup and ID verification, 45 minutes of scored assessment, and 10 minutes for the writing and speaking samples. Our mocks reproduce the scored portion and the samples — we do not simulate ID verification.
Will I see the same questions if I take more than one?
No. Sign in and the engine records every item you have been served, then avoids repeating them in later sittings. Without an account it cannot know what you have seen, so a second attempt in the same browser may overlap.
When does a mock test ask for my microphone?
At the start of the speaking section, before any speaking timer runs — you need one for the speaking tasks, and asking there means a blocked or silent microphone shows up before a recording rather than halfway through one. Nothing is asked for when the test starts, no camera is ever used, and the reading, writing and listening tasks work without a microphone.
Is my practice score the same as an official score?
No, and nobody can honestly claim otherwise. Ours is an estimate from our own engine, calibrated against Duolingo's published CEFR alignment. It is useful for tracking progress and finding weak skills; it is not a prediction of what you would score officially, and it carries no standing with any institution.
Can I pause a mock test?
You can, but for a diagnostic result you should not. Half of what a full mock measures is whether you can sustain an hour of concentration under timers. A paused test tells you about your English and nothing about your performance.
Do I need to create an account to take a mock test?
No. You can take any of the seven without signing in. An account exists so your history persists and so the engine can avoid repeating questions across sittings — without one it cannot know what you have already seen.
What happens if my connection drops mid-test?
Progress through the current attempt is held in your browser, so a brief drop is usually recoverable by reloading. Signed-in attempts are also written to your account as you go.
Can I take the same mock test twice?
You can, but the second run is far less informative — you will remember items, and the adaptive engine will be estimating from answers you have effectively already seen. With seven separate tests available there is little reason to repeat one.
How long should I wait between mock tests?
Long enough to have reviewed the last one and worked on what it found. A mock measures; the work between mocks is what changes the number. Taking them back to back mostly measures the same thing twice.
Are the mock tests as hard as the real test?
They are built to the same published format and anchored to the same CEFR alignment, and the difficulty adapts the same way. But our item bank is our own, so treat a practice score as a good guide to your weak skills and a rough guide to your level — not a prediction.
How do I take a Duolingo mock test online?
Open Mock Test 1 and press start: there is no sign-up and no download. Set aside about an hour in a quiet room, allow the microphone when the speaking section begins, and answer every question before its timer ends. At the end you get an estimated score, all eight subscores and feedback on your writing and speaking.
How are these mock tests different from Duolingo’s official practice test?
Duolingo’s own practice test is free once you create an account, takes about 45 minutes, can be repeated as often as you like, and ends with an estimated score range. Our mock tests run the full one-hour structure with all 13 current question types, and end with an estimated score, all eight subscores and feedback on your writing and speaking, with no account needed. Use both, and see how the other options stack up in our comparison of DET practice tests.
Will the mock tests stay free?
All seven are free for a limited time with no card required. If that changes we will say so on the pricing page rather than quietly gating tests people have started using.
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