Listen and Complete Practice: Guide and Examples

Learn how to approach Listen and Complete with original practice examples, timing notes, common mistakes and clear explanations. Free listening practice with Nepious.

By Nepious · Reviewed 2026-11-06 · Original practice material

Listeningshared 6 minute 30 second setNo per-question preparation

What is Listen and Complete?

Listen to a scenario and complete short statements about it. This guide explains an approach and gives original examples you can study before trying a new prompt.

How to approach the question

Identify who is speaking, the problem, the goal, and the practical details. Scenario audio can be replayed.

What to watch for

Give concise answers. This app accepts authored alternatives, but cannot recognize every valid paraphrase.

Try the skill, then inspect your answer

Answer once before revealing a model. Compare the meaning, the requested points and the language you used. Choose one improvement and try an unseen question. Repeating a known answer mainly measures familiarity.

Practice Listen and Complete

Original worked examples

These examples were written for Nepious. They are not recalled live exam questions and have no assigned official score. Open-response tasks allow many valid answers.

Example 1

Your group has a _____ on Friday. One member is _____. You want to present on _____ instead.

For study, the recording is available below. In a timed listening exercise, you will respond before seeing its transcript or model.

Answer and explanation

Your group has a presentation on Friday. One member is ill. You want to present on Monday instead.

Match the participants, purpose, and practical details from the scenario. Alternatives in the key are accepted.

Example 2

Your paper is about _____. You are unsure whether the websites are _____. You want to find academic _____.

For study, the recording is available below. In a timed listening exercise, you will respond before seeing its transcript or model.

Answer and explanation

Your paper is about urban development. You are unsure whether the websites are reliable. You want to find academic articles.

Match the participants, purpose, and practical details from the scenario. Alternatives in the key are accepted.

Example 3

You are organizing a park _____. Few people have _____. You need gloves and _____. Your budget is _____.

For study, the recording is available below. In a timed listening exercise, you will respond before seeing its transcript or model.

Answer and explanation

You are organizing a park clean-up. Few people have registered. You need gloves and bags. Your budget is small.

Match the participants, purpose, and practical details from the scenario. Alternatives in the key are accepted.

How feedback works in Nepious

Objective exercises compare your response with an authored answer key. Some tasks use local partial-credit approximations. These item results are useful feedback, but their difficulty is not calibrated to the official exam.

No local task result or model response guarantees a particular DET score. For a more authoritative external reference, use the official practice test.

Common questions

What do I do in Listen and Complete?

Listen to a scenario and complete short statements about it.

How should I approach Listen and Complete?

Identify who is speaking, the problem, the goal, and the practical details. Scenario audio can be replayed.

What is a common mistake in Listen and Complete?

Give concise answers. This app accepts authored alternatives, but cannot recognize every valid paraphrase.

Related listening practice

Format references: official 2026 scoring guide and current test structure. Nepious is an independent practice project.