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Every question type, explained
Each part of an English exam tests a different skill, at every CEFR level. Pick a question type to see how it works, what it tests, exam-style tips — and free exercises with instant answers and explanations to practise right away.
The question types
Explained with strategy tips, then practised with real exercises — every answer triple-checked.
Multiple-choice cloze: free practice at every level
Multiple-choice cloze is the classic exam vocabulary task: a short text with gaps, and for each gap you choose the one word that fits best from four options. It rewards collocation, phrasal verbs, linking words and the feel for natural English.
13 exercises ready to try
Open cloze (gap fill): free practice at every level
Open cloze — or gap fill — gives you a text with gaps and no options: you must think of the single word that fits each gap. It is the grammar backbone of every exam level, testing articles, prepositions, auxiliaries, pronouns, linkers and verb forms.
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Word formation: free practice at every level
Word formation asks you to change a word given in capitals into the form the sentence needs. A noun becomes an adjective, a verb becomes a noun, an adjective becomes an adverb — and often the opposite is needed too (possible → impossible).
9 exercises ready to try
Key word transformations: free practice at every level
Key word transformation is the sentence-level grammar test that scares most learners — and rewards them the most. You rewrite a sentence so it means the same, using a given key word and between two and five words in total.
6 exercises ready to try
Reading comprehension: free practice at every level
Reading comprehension tests whether you can follow the argument of a text, not just its words. You read a longer passage and answer multiple-choice questions on main ideas, detail, attitude, reference and vocabulary in context.
10 exercises ready to try
Listening: free practice with audio at every level
Listening is the skill that changes fastest with practice. Our exercises pair a recorded English text with comprehension questions, so you train your ear the same way the real test does — with accents, speed and distractors.
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Phrasal verbs: free practice at every level
Phrasal verbs — a verb with a particle, like give up, look after or turn down — are everywhere in natural English, and their meaning is rarely the sum of their parts. These exercises train you to pick the one that fits the sentence.
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Idiomatic expressions & collocations: free practice at every level
Collocations are the words English puts together — make a decision, heavy traffic, pay attention — and idioms are fixed expressions with a meaning of their own, like a piece of cake. Using them correctly is what makes English sound natural.
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Verb tenses: free practice at every level
Choosing the right tense is about time and meaning: is the action finished, still going on, or connected to now? These exercises give you a verb in brackets and ask for the form the sentence needs.
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Gerunds & infinitives: free practice at every level
Do you enjoy swimming or enjoy to swim? Some verbs are followed by the -ing form, some by the infinitive with to, and a few change their meaning with the form. These exercises train the patterns until they feel natural.
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Verbs & prepositions: free practice at every level
Depend on, apologise for, succeed in, accuse someone of — many verbs need one particular preposition, and the wrong one is among the most common mistakes in English. These exercises make the right one automatic.
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Mixed grammar practice: free exercises at every level
Real exams never tell you which grammar point is coming. Mixed grammar practice puts a different point in every sentence — a tense, a conditional, a modal verb, the passive, reported speech — so you learn to spot what each sentence needs.
2 exercises ready to try
Not sure where to start?
New to exam practice?
Start with the multiple-choice cloze — it is the friendliest introduction to exam-style vocabulary work.
Need the biggest win?
Key word transformations are the most rule-based task: learn the patterns and the marks are yours.
Teaching a class?
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