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.
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 CompleteOriginal 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
For study, the recording is available below. In a timed listening exercise, you will respond before seeing its transcript or model.
Answer and explanation
Match the participants, purpose, and practical details from the scenario. Alternatives in the key are accepted.
Example 2
For study, the recording is available below. In a timed listening exercise, you will respond before seeing its transcript or model.
Answer and explanation
Match the participants, purpose, and practical details from the scenario. Alternatives in the key are accepted.
Example 3
For study, the recording is available below. In a timed listening exercise, you will respond before seeing its transcript or model.
Answer and explanation
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
- Listen and Type — Type the sentence you hear. Up to three plays in exam mode.
- Listen and Respond — Hear the other person and choose a suitable reply.
Format references: official 2026 scoring guide and current test structure. Nepious is an independent practice project.