A complete sitting on Duolingo’s own clocks, adaptive item by item like the real test. You get the 10–160 overall and all 8 subscores.
Start with a free quick mock: about 20 minutes, the real tasks, with an estimated score. You need an account, not a card.
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Example responses. The estimate follows the difficulty you sustain, not the number you get right.
MockLive AI’s Duolingo English Test mock covers all 13 task types with adaptive items and reports the 10–160 overall plus every subscore; a free 20-minute quick mock comes first, and the pass is 20 full mocks.
| Task | On the clock | Per sitting | Feeds | Item choice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Read and Select Decide whether each word is real English. Five seconds each. | 5s | 18 | Reading | Adaptive |
Fill in the Blanks Complete the missing letters of one word in a sentence. | 20s | 6 | Reading | Adaptive |
Read and Complete Restore the missing letters across a damaged passage. | 3:00 | 4 | Reading | Adaptive |
Interactive Reading One passage, six questions, one shared clock. | 8:00 | 2 sets | Reading | Adaptive |
Listen and Type Type the sentence you hear. Up to three plays. | 1:00 | 8 | Listening | Adaptive |
Interactive Listening Follow a conversation, choose replies, then summarise what happened. | 6:30 then 1:15 | 2 sets | Listening + Writing | Adaptive |
Write About the Photo Describe the picture in one minute. | 1:00 | 3 | Writing | Fixed |
Interactive Writing Write for five minutes, then extend your answer for three more. | 30s prep + 5:00 then 3:00 | 1 | Writing | Fixed |
Speak About the Photo Describe the picture aloud for up to ninety seconds. | 20s prep + 1:30 | 1 | Speaking | Fixed |
Read, Then Speak Read a prompt, then speak to it for up to ninety seconds. | 20s prep + 1:30 | 1 | Speaking | Fixed |
Interactive Speaking A conversation. Thirty-five seconds per answer, no second takes. | 35s | 1 set · 7 questions | Speaking | Adaptive |
Writing Sample Five minutes. Scored, and sent to the institutions you apply to. | 30s prep + 5:00 | 1 | Writing | Fixed |
Speaking Sample Up to three minutes. Shared as video with your institutions. | 30s prep + 3:00 | 1 | Speaking | Fixed |
| CEFR | Duolingo scale | IELTS, approximately | TOEFL iBT, approximately |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1–A2 | 10–55 | 0–4.0 | 0–17 |
| B1 | 60–95 | 4.0–5.5 | 18–64 |
| B2 | 100–125 | 5.5–6.5 | 65–97 |
| C1 | 130–150 | 7.0–8.0 | 98–118 |
| C2 | 155–160 | 8.0–9.0 | 119–120 |
Counted from the item banks, not rounded up for the page. Sit 20 complete sittings without meeting the same item twice.
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A quick mock: about 20 minutes, the real tasks, with an estimated score. An account, no card.
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Really adaptive. Every response becomes a difficulty and an outcome on the same scale, your ability is re-estimated, and the next item is drawn from the ones closest to that estimate. Each of the four skills is tracked separately, because somebody who reads well and listens badly has two different abilities and one set of items would measure neither.
It is an estimate, not a prediction. What we can measure is which difficulty of item you sustained; turning that into a number on 10–160 is our calibration against Duolingo’s published CEFR bands, because Duolingo’s own conversion is not public. The report also shows how wide the plausible range is and how many responses each subscore rests on, which is the part a single number hides.
All 13 of the current ones, including Interactive Reading, Interactive Listening, Interactive Writing and Interactive Speaking. Read Aloud and Listen, Then Speak were removed from the test on 1 July 2025 and are not here — a lot of practice material still ships them, so it is worth checking before you drill.
The individual ones are Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. The integrated ones — Literacy, Comprehension, Conversation, Production — are each an average of two of those, so they are a reshuffle of the same four numbers rather than a second opinion. They matter because institutions set cut-offs on them.
About 65 minutes for most people, and up to 85 if you use every clock to the last second. Both numbers are added up from the task timings rather than rounded off, and the difference is simply that nobody spends the full three minutes on a passage they finished in two.
No, deliberately. The real test does not let you, and practice that does would leave you meeting that constraint for the first time on the day. Dictations can be played up to three times, as Duolingo allows, and nothing else repeats.
Reading and Listening are counted against answer keys, with partial credit where Duolingo gives it, and the report shows the record item by item. Writing and Speaking are rated from your own text and audio. Every number says which it is.
By a model reading your text and listening to your audio against CEFR criteria, sampled several times and reduced to a median rather than reported from a single pass. Where a rating does not come back, that subscore is left empty and the overall is withheld — an average of three skills and a guess at the fourth is worse than no number.
Check what your university or visa route accepts first. The Duolingo test is the cheapest and shortest of the four and you sit it at home, but fewer institutions and immigration routes take it. IELTS is the only one where you speak to a person, TOEFL is adaptive by section, and PTE is scored by AI. We have practice for all four, so we have no reason to push you to one.
Free guides. All 13 task types, with what the marking rewards.