DET Mock 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.
- About an hour, eight sections, run in the real order
- All 13 question types — nothing here appears in the other five tests
- Eight subscores and per-answer feedback the moment you finish
Mock Test 5 is a full sitting, not a sample. It opens with a short start screen — no camera, no permission prompts — then runs the eight sections in the order Duolingo runs them and ends with a scored report. Budget an uninterrupted hour, and have a microphone ready for the speaking section, where your browser asks for it.
Free for a limited time. No card, and no account needed to take it or to see your score.
What Mock Test 5 is built from
Eight sections, in the order you will meet them on the day. Everything in the right-hand column belongs to Mock Test 5 alone — none of it appears in the other five tests — and where a section draws from a pool, the engine picks what suits the level you are working at, so two people taking this test will not meet exactly the same items, or even the same number of them.
| Section | Task types | In Mock Test 5 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Read & Select | Read & Select | 15–18 of its 67 real and invented words, 5 seconds each |
| 2 · Fill in the Blanks | Fill in the Blanks | 6–9 of its 21 sentences |
| 3 · Mixed Language Skills | Listen & Type, Read & Complete | 9–15 items in 24 minutes, from its 19 passages and 29 audio clips |
| 4 · Interactive Reading | Interactive Reading | Two of: A choir with no auditions; Speaking up in seminars; Why ice is slippery; Keeping seeds for the future — five steps each |
| 5 · Interactive Listening | Interactive Listening | Two of these conversations: You phone a restaurant to change a table booking for a family birthday dinner. You phone a vet’s surgery to book your cat’s yearly vaccination. You phone the local council because your recycling bin has not been emptied. You visit the university careers service to get help with your CV before a careers fair. You talk to a classmate who has not done his part of a group presentation. |
| 6 · Writing | Write About the Photo, Writing Sample | Four written responses, two of them about photographs from this test’s three: A group of young children holding hands in a circle on the grass of a sunny park; two girls in white dresses face each other; Students working on laptops at a long curved wooden desk that runs around an oval opening in a modern library; Two people riding green rental bicycles along a quiet city street on a sunny day |
| 7 · Speaking | Speak About the Photo, Interactive Speaking | The remaining photograph, described aloud, then a spoken conversation |
| 8 · Writing & Speaking Sample | Writing Sample, Speaking Sample | 8 minutes on open prompts |
When to take Mock Test 5
Use it to confirm a trend after a change in how you practise. Two sittings that agree are worth more than one, and because it shares nothing with the other tests, agreement here means the improvement is real.
That order is a suggestion, not a requirement: the six tests are equated — a score means the same on each — so any of them can come first. What matters is leaving enough work between sittings for the next score to mean something.
What to bring, and what you get
Bring an unaided hour and finish every task. You leave with a predicted overall and all eight subscores — see the sample report — and the mock tests page covers getting a number worth trusting. The official test costs $70 USD; find your weak spots before you pay for it.
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