e-TEP Practice Test 8
This test has the same four parts as the real e-TEP. Do them in any order. You can take a break between parts.
1. Choose how you want to practise
2. Do the four parts
3. Check your results
Your scores will appear here and in your score report as you finish each part.
What is in this test
Reading
- Blood Donation Day on Campus (B1)
- How Do Plants Know Which Way Is Up? (B2)
- Larks and Owls (B2)
- The Bicycle: Two Hundred Years of Change (B2–C1)
- The Trouble with University Rankings (C1)
Listening
- Buying a phone plan
- An announcement at a ferry terminal
- Four people on learning a musical instrument
- An interview with a cave explorer
- Two students planning a poster presentation
- A lecture on Zipf's law
- A podcast about delivery-only kitchens
Speaking
- Describe a difficult decision you made. Explain what you decided and whether you think it was the right choice.
- Some people think that museums should be free for everyone. Others think visitors should pay. What is your opinion? Give reasons and examples.
- Short talk: The Zeigarnik effect
Writing
- Task 1: reply to this post — “Next year, the English preparatory programme may be taught fully online instead of on campus. We would like to hear your opinions.”
- Task 2: podcast and graph — How often university students exercise each week (%)
Sample question (Reading, B2) — “Larks and Owls”
What does the writer say about most people?
- They are clear larks.
- They are somewhere between larks and owls.
- They are clear owls.
- They change chronotype every year.
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