Introduction to Duolingo English Test

The Duolingo English Test (DET) is an innovative assessment designed to evaluate the English language proficiency of non-native speakers, recognized by numerous universities and institutions worldwide. The DET is unique in its format, allowing candidates to complete the test online from the comfort of their homes, through a variety of question types, including interactive tasks and open-ended responses. As the demand for English proficiency continues to grow globally, the Duolingo English Test stands out as a modern solution for prospective students aiming to study in English-speaking environments.

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About Duolingo English Test

Taking the test

• What do I need to do first if I am taking the Duolingo English Test?

If you are going to take Duolingo, you need to have an original passport or driving license. You will also need a Gmail account to create a Duolingo account. Importantly, you should not take the test using two different accounts. To explain it clearly, let's say you use one Gmail account to purchase and take the Duolingo test for the first time. For any subsequent attempts, you must use the same account that you used initially. If you use another Gmail account for your next attempts for various reasons, your results will not be validated.

• Duolingo English Test ကိုဖြေတော့မယ်ဆိုရင်ပထမဆုံးအနေနဲ့ဘာတွေလိုအပ်ပါသလဲ?

Duolingo ဖြေမယ်ဆိုရင် Passport or Driving license တခုခုမူရင်းလိုပါတယ်။ Duolingo account ဖွင့်ရန်အတွက် Gmail တစ်ခုလိုအပ်ပါတယ်။ အရေးကြီးတာက Duolingo ကိုအကောင့်နှစ်ခုသုံးပြီးမဖြေဖို့ပါ။ နားလည်အောင်ပြောရမယ်ဆိုရင်တော့ သင်ဟာ Gmail အကောင့်တစ်ခုကိုသုံးပြီးပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် Duolingo test ကိုဝယ်ဖြေပြီဆိုပါစို့။ နောက်ပိုင်းထပ်ဖြေတဲ့ attempt များမှာလည်းပထမဆုံးသုံးခဲ့တဲ့အကောင့်နဲ့ပဲဖြေဖို့လိုပါလိမ့်မယ်။ ဒီလိုမှမဟုတ်ပဲအကြောင်းအမျိုးမျိုးကြောင့် other Gmail တစ်ခုနဲ့ဖွင့်ထားတဲ့အကောင့်နဲ့ Next Attempt တွေကိုဖြေမိတယ်ဆိုရင် Result ထွက်လာမှာမဟုတ်ပါဘူး။

Requirements

• Where can I take the Duolingo Test? What is required, and is there a time limit?

The Duolingo Test can be taken anywhere, at any time, without restrictions on time or location. However, the testing area you use must be quiet, secure, and private. You will also need a laptop or desktop computer, internet connection, power backup, and a mobile phone for a second camera. The duration of the test is one hour.

• Duolingo Test ကိုဘယ်နေရာမှာဖြေလို့ရပါသလဲ? ဘာတွေလိုအပ်ပါသလဲ၊ အချိန်ကန့်သတ်ချက်ရှိပါသလား?

Duolingo Test ကအချိန်/နေရာမရွေး ဖြေဆိုနိုင်တဲ့ test ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဖြေရင်အသုံးပြုမဲ့ testing area ကတော့ တိတ်ဆိတ်၊ လုံခြုံပြီး private ဖြစ်ဖို့လိုအပ်ပါတယ်။ Laptop/desktop, internet, power backup, mobile phone for Second camera တို့လိုအပ်ပါတယ်။ Test duration ကတော့ ၁ နာရီဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

Test fees

• How much are the Duolingo Test fees?

The current exam fee for Duolingo is $70 for 1 test. If you buy 2 tests, the total is only $118 since there is an $11 discount for each test, making it ideal for those who want to take the test twice. Please note that whether you buy 1 test or 2 tests, you must take them within 21 days. Also, after buying 2 tests, you are not allowed to share or transfer them to anyone else.

• Duolingo test ဖြေဖို့ Test fees ကဘယ်လောက်ကျသင့်ပါသလဲ?

Duolingo ရဲ့ Exam fees ကလက်ရှိမှာ 1 test = $70 ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ 2 tests ကိုဝယ်မယ်ဆိုရင်တော့ each test အတွက်ကို $11 စီ သက်သာမှာဖြစ်တာကြောင့် $118 သာကျသင့်မှာဖြစ်ပြီး Test ကိုနှစ်ကြိမ်ဖြေဖို့ဆန္ဒရှိသူတွေအတွက်သင့်တော်ပါတယ်။ သတိပြုရမှာကတော့ 1 test ဖြစ်စေ၊ 2 tests ဖြစ်စေ 21 ရက်အတွင်းဖြေဆိုရမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ 2 tests ဝယ်ပြီးအခြားသူနဲ့မျှဖြေခွင့်မရှိတာကိုလည်းမမေ့သင့်ပါဘူးနော်။

Results

• How long do I have to wait for the result?

Since KMD is certified as a platinum partner of Duolingo, you will only have to wait 24 hours if you buy the test from KMD and take it there. Normally, you will know the result within 48 hours after completing the test. If you want to know even faster, you can pay a Faster Result fee of around $39 or $40 and get the result in just 12 hours.

• Result ကဘယ်လောက်ကြာအောင်စောင့်ရမလဲ?

KMD သည် Duolingo Platinum Partner ဖြစ်တဲ့အတွက် KMD မှာ Test ဝယ်ပြီးလာဖြေမယ်ဆိုရင် ပုံမှန် Result 48 နာရီ အစား 24 နာရီပဲ စောင့်ရမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဒီထက်အမြန်သိချင်သေးရင်တော့ Faster Result fees $39 ခန့်ဝန်းကျင်နဲ့ ၁၂ နာရီသာစောင့်ပြီး result ကိုသိနိုင်ပါတယ်။

Test Retake

• If I receive an Uncertified result, how many times can I retake it?

Whether you can retake it or not depends on the reason for your Uncertified result. Additionally, it depends on Duolingo's decision, so there is no official announcement on how many times you can retake it.

• Uncertified ဖြစ်ခဲ့ရင် Retake ဘယ်နှကြိမ်ပြန်ရပါသလဲ?

Retake ပြန်ရ/မရက ကိုယ့်ရဲ့ uncertified ဖြစ်ရတဲ့ Reason ပေါ်မူတည်ပါတယ်။ နောက်တခုက Duolingo ရဲ့ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်အပေါ်မူတည်တာမို့ ဘယ်နှကြိမ်ပြန်ပေးမယ်ဆိုတာမျိုး Officially ကြေငြာထားတာမျိုးမရှိပါဘူး။

Test Format

Duolingo Test Sessions

Introduction and Onboarding

5 mins

Ensure your computer's camera, speakers, and microphone are functioning properly.
Set up your phone camera to record your computer.
Submit your government-issued photo ID.
Review the test rules and requirements.

Adaptive Test

45 mins

Measures your English skills through a series of different question types.
Difficulty of some questions changes based on your performance.

Writing Sample and Speaking Sample

10 mins

You will be given a prompt and asked to respond at length.
The Speaking Sample allows for a 1-3 minute response, and the Writing Sample allows for a 3-5 minute response.
You will be able to review your responses to these samples after the test has concluded. Institutions that receive your results will also receive these samples.

Duolingo Preparation Class at KMD College

Prepare for the Duolingo English Test with confidence at KMD Institute, Myanmar. Our dedicated Duolingo exam preparation classes are designed to equip you with the strategies and skills needed to achieve your target score. Through focused instruction, practice tests, and personalized feedback, our experienced instructors will guide you on your path to success.

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Scoring

Duolingo English Test Scoring System

Upon passing the test, you will get a certificate with your total score, which is the combination of individual and integrated subscores. This provides a useful insight into your general communication abilities.

Literacy — Analyzes your ability to comprehend and produce written English, demonstrating written communication skills that are critical for success in the classroom.

Comprehension — Measures how well you understand spoken and written English — that you can attend lectures, take part in discussions, and comprehend written materials in an English-speaking setting.

Conversation — Assesses your fluency and conversational skills, showing that you are able to speak English effectively and fluently while interacting with others.

Production — Evaluates your ability to express yourself in written and spoken English, describing that you can write and speak English clearly and grammatically for academic presentations.

Overall, your proficiency level is assessed to provide candidates a deeper understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.

Additional FAQs

• Yes, you can only buy the test. If you have already bought the test, you will only need to pay for the room charges.

• KMD မှာ Test Only ပဲဝယ်မယ်ဆိုရင်ရောရလား? Test ကို မိမိဘာသာ ဝယ်ပြီး အခန်းငှားဖြေလို့ရော ရလား?

• Test Only ပဲဝယ်လို့ရပါတယ်။ Test ဝယ်ပြီးသားဆိုရင် အခန်းငှားပြီးဖြေဖို့အတွက် Room Charges ပဲပေးစရာလိုပါမယ်။

• Yes, you can retake it. You can purchase and retake it up to three times within 30 days.

• အမှတ်မကြိုက်ခဲ့ရင် ပြန်ဖြေလို့ရပါသလား။ ဘယ်နှကြိမ်ပြန်ဖြေခွင့်ရှိပါသလဲ?

• ပြန်ဖြေလို့ရပါတယ်။ ရက် ၃၀ အတွင်း ၃ ကြိမ်ဝယ်ဖြေလို့ရပါတယ်။

• It expires in 2 years.

• Duolingo test result ရဲ့ validity ကဘယ်လောက်ဖြစ်မလဲ?

• 2 years အကြာမှာ expired ဖြစ်မှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။