Duolingo
What is Duolingo test?
The Duolingo English Test is a modern language proficiency tool designed for today’s international students and institutions. It offers an English proficiency score, video interview, and writing sample in an accessible, efficient, and secure testing experience.
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60-85
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- Can understand very basic English words and phrases.
- Can understand straightforward information and express themselves in familiar contexts.
60-85
- Can understand the main points of concrete speech or writing on routine matters such as work and school.
- Can describe experiences, ambitions, opinions, and plans, although with some awkwardness or hesitation
90-115
- Can fulfil most communication goals, even on unfamiliar topics.
- Can understand the main ideas of both concrete and abstract writing.
- Can interact with proficient speakers fairly easily.
120-160
- Can understand a variety of demanding written and spoken language including some specialized language use situations.
- Can grasp implicit, figurative, pragmatic, and idiomatic language.
- Can use language flexibly and effectively for most social, academic, and professional purposes
DUOLINGO FAQs
The Duolingo English Test is a more convenient, accessible, and cost-effective English proficiency assessment.
Traditional English proficiency exams are often difficult to schedule, require travel to a test centre, have long and stressful testing experiences, and cost over $200 USD. The Duolingo English Test can be taken online, on demand from your computer for only $49. The results are available within 48 hours, and you can share your results with an unlimited number of institutions.
In addition, the Duolingo English Test offers the opportunity to showcase yourself in addition to your English ability through the integration of a video interview and writing sample alongside a proficiency score.
Duolingo partners with institutions across the globe, including hundreds of universities and secondary schools who accept the Duolingo English Test as part of their admissions process. To see a full list of accepting institutions and how they use the Duolingo English Test. For more visit https://englishtest.duolingo.com/institutions.
The exam portion of the Duolingo English Test contains a series of speaking, reading, writing, and listening exercises. This portion is graded.
The second, ungraded portion of the exam consists of a video interview and writing sample. In each section, the test taker will be able to respond to one of two prompts offered.
How is the Duolingo English Test used by institutions?
Accepting institutions use the Duolingo English Test for different purposes. Please contact individual institutions if you have questions about how they accept the Duolingo English Test.
For higher education institutions, Duolingo will provide a link to the institution’s Admissions website and note if the Duolingo English Test fulfils their English proficiency requirement.
The Duolingo English Test takes less than an hour to complete.
You may receive certified results for up to two tests in a 30-day period, which starts on the completion date of your first certified test. If you complete a test and your results are not certified, it will not count against this limit.
Please contact englishtest-support@duolingo.com with subject: “Accommodation Request” detailing your request. A supervisor will reply within 24 hours.
Subscores can provide more nuanced information about a test taker’s language abilities, without requiring them to take another test.
Since the test format has not changed—only the scoring—students who have taken the test on or after July 15, 2019 can have subscores added to their certified results for free and without having to take another test..
When subscores are available in July 2020, test takers will be able to do this from their Duolingo English Test homepage. They can first preview their subscores before confirming whether or not they’d like them added to their test results.
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