Prepare for the Duolingo English Test with Glossom

Glossom is an English exam prep app for iPhone and iPad. It prepares you for the Duolingo English Test (DET) with a daily path to your target score in each skill, six courses, and AI feedback on your speaking and writing. Glossom is independent and is not made by Duolingo.

What the Duolingo English Test tests

You take the Duolingo English Test online, at home, in about an hour. It adapts as you go: the questions get harder or easier from your answers. Most questions are short, many under a minute, and the four skills are mixed all the way through. You may not use notes, and you keep your eyes on the screen. At the end you record a short speaking sample and write a short text, which the schools you send your results to can see.

• SpeakingTalk about a photo or a written question for up to 90 seconds after 20 seconds to prepare, and answer six to eight questions in a short conversation, each heard once.

• WritingDescribe a photo in one minute, write for up to five minutes on a question and then answer a follow-up, and sum up a conversation you just heard. Spelling and punctuation count.

• ListeningType a sentence you hear, fill gaps about a spoken situation, and choose the best reply as a conversation goes on.

• ReadingComplete words in a short text and answer questions on passages.

Your score runs from 10 to 160 in steps of 5. You also get a score for each skill, and four more that each combine two skills. Results usually arrive within two days. Dates, prices and the test itself are on the Duolingo English Test website.

How Glossom prepares you

The Duolingo English Test asks for many short answers, on the spot. Glossom’s practice is short too, and it builds the skills under the test rather than copying its questions.

• Spoken answers, about 30 secondsAnswer an open question, finish an argument, argue the other side or retell a short talk. You start when you are ready. An AI coach then shows what to fix and gives your answer back, improved at your level, for you to read aloud.

• Short writing with feedbackOpinions, messages and chart descriptions of 30 to 110 words, depending on your level. The AI coach corrects them, and you retype the improved answer. Writing drills train spelling and punctuation, which the test scores.

• Best reply and type what you hearListening clips ask you to choose the natural next line, and each writing drill has you type a sentence you hear.

• Words you know at a glance6,000 words and phrases with pictures, and translations in 30 languages, so you read and listen faster.

• Start at your levelSix short timed tests suggest a starting score in each skill, with a likely range. Choose your targets and daily time, and your path shows the date you can reach them.

Glossom has no full practice tests in the format of the Duolingo English Test. Before your test day, try a full timed practice in that format too.

Glossom levels and Duolingo English Test scores

Glossom’s table comes from Duolingo’s published comparison of its scores with IELTS, skill by skill. Each skill climbs at its own pace: writing starts lowest, because the comparison puts IELTS 4 writing anywhere from 10 to 60.

The table shows every other level: each level in between sits about halfway to the next row. Source: Duolingo’s skill-by-skill comparison with IELTS. Dates, levels and scores are estimates from your study path, not a promise of your exam result.

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Start your path

Start without signing up. Choose the Duolingo English Test, take the level tests, and your path is ready in a few minutes.