OET Listening Practice Tests: 56 Complete Mock Exams

All 56 OET listening mocks, listed exam by exam

Every OET listening mock exam below is complete and playable: 42 scored questions and 13 separate recordings, one recording per screen, exactly as the computer-based test delivers them. This list was verified against the live exam database on 21 August 2026, so you can decide what to sit before you create an account. Each exam opens in the runner from the launcher on this page.

Collections 01 to 03 open with an Ultimacy Premium subscription, and Jahshan Practice Test 1 is free to try before you subscribe. Collection 04, the Ultimacy special collection, is the one exception: it needs an Ultimacy course place as well as an active subscription, because those materials are part of the taught course. The same four collections exist for reading on the OET Reading mock exams page.

Collection 01: Jahshan, 21 exams across four series

The largest collection, and the one to start with, because its first exam is the free OET listening mock test. It gathers four series into one run of 21 exams.

Collection 02: Benchmark, 20 numbered exams

Twenty numbered OET listening mock tests in one continuous set. This is the collection to use when you want volume: one sitting every second day for six weeks without ever repeating an exam.

Collection 03: Official sample tests, 5 exams

Five official OET listening sample tests running inside the same interface as everything else on this page. Because they come from the exam board's own published sample material, they are the closest calibration you can get to the real paper, which is why they are the collection to save rather than spend early.

Collection 04: Ultimacy special collection, 10 exams

Ten authentic OET listening papers that are part of the taught Ultimacy course: OET Trainer 1 to 6 and OET New Exclusive Tests 1 to 4. They run in the same simulator as every other exam here and are scored the same way. Access works differently from the other three collections: an Ultimacy Premium subscription on its own does not open them, because they are course material rather than platform material. You need a place on the Ultimacy course alongside an active subscription.

Which OET listening collection should I start with?

Forty-six exams is more than anyone needs and the order you sit them in changes what you learn. Here is the sequence we give our own students.

If you have never sat a computer-based OET listening test

Start with Jahshan Practice Test 1. It is the free one, it runs the complete format across all three parts, and its only job is to show you what audio that plays once actually feels like. Expect the score to be low. That is information, not a verdict.

If your exam is more than eight weeks away

Work through Benchmark Tests 1 to 20 in order, roughly one full sitting every second day, and use the answer review after every single one. Twenty exams is enough volume to make the format automatic, which is the whole point of this phase. Keep the official samples untouched.

If your exam is three to four weeks away

Move to the Jahshan collection, tests 2 to 21. Four different source series sit inside it, so the accents, pacing and note-page layouts vary more from exam to exam than inside a single numbered set. That variation is what you want close to exam day.

If your exam is next week

Now spend the official sample tests, one every second day, under full conditions: headphones on, phone away, 50 minutes with no pauses. These are your dress rehearsals and your most honest score estimate. Do not review them in pieces; sit them whole.

If one part is dragging your score down

Stop sitting full exams for a week. Use single-part sittings instead: Part A on its own if spelling and note completion are costing you marks, Part C on its own if you lose the thread during long presentations. Each single-part sitting is scored and saved separately, so you can watch one part move without waiting 50 minutes to find out. For drilling Part A spelling word by word rather than sitting a full exam, use the Listening Part A dictation practice.

OET listening test timing: the full 50 minutes, screen by screen

A sitting is 13 screens with one recording on each, plus a sound check and a one minute instructions screen before them. These are the real clocks, measured on the computer-based test and reproduced exactly in the runner.

Two rules decide how that time actually behaves.

A clock is a ceiling, not a schedule. The recording finishes well before the clock does, and the clock does not stop when the speaker does. Whatever is left is your answer-checking time, and candidates who do not know this waste it waiting for something to happen.

Part B shares one pool. Its six questions draw from a single ten minute allowance that never resets between extracts. Thirty seconds spent hesitating on extract one is thirty seconds taken from extract six. This is the single most common timing mistake in OET listening and the reason we time Part B as one block rather than six.

How an OET listening practice test is scored: the 42 marks

Every full sitting is marked automatically out of 42 and saved to your statistics.

• Part A, 24 marks. Two consultations, 12 note-completion gaps each, one mark per gap. Spelling counts, and accepted variants are accepted.
• Part B, 6 marks. Six workplace extracts, one multiple-choice question each.
• Part C, 12 marks. Two presentations, six multiple-choice questions each.

Part A is more than half the paper. If you are choosing where to spend a limited week of revision, that number is the answer.

What is inside every OET listening mock exam

Built to behave like exam day, not like a podcast

Most listening practice hands you an audio file and a PDF. The real OET Listening sub-test does neither. It plays each recording once, gives you no pause button, and keeps the section clock running after the speaker stops so you can check your answers. This simulator enforces all three, because a practice score is only useful if the conditions that produced it were real.

A sitting therefore runs in this order.

1. Pick an exam. Choose one of the 56 listening mocks from a collection tile. The launcher shows live counts, so a collection never promises exams that do not exist.
2. Pass the sound check. Untimed, before anything is scored, so a muted tab or the wrong output device is caught here and not three minutes into Part A.
3. Read the instructions screen. One minute, exactly as the real test gives it.
4. Sit the 13 screens. A spoken introduction to each part, two Part A consultations, six Part B extracts, two Part C presentations. Audio plays once. There is no pause, no rewind and no replay, and each section clock keeps running after the audio ends, because that remaining time is yours for checking answers.
5. Get your score out of 42. Marked automatically, broken down by part, saved to your history.
6. Review with the audio unlocked. Scrub, slow the speaker down, read the synchronised transcript, and see every answer marked against the key.

Transcripts are checked line by line against the published script rather than shipped as raw speech recognition, so a term you are trying to learn is spelled the way the exam spells it. This is the difference between OET listening practice and listening to OET material. A score produced with a pause button is not a score.

Practising Part A, Part B or Part C on its own

A full sitting takes 50 minutes, which is not always available. You can sit Part A, Part B or Part C on its own instead. Each single-part sitting is scored and saved to your statistics in its own right; only full exams count towards the best score shown on the exam list.

The clocks come with the part, so Part A alone is 24 marks across two eight minute extracts, Part B alone is 6 marks in one ten minute pool, and Part C alone is 12 marks across two ten minute extracts. Single-part sittings are the reason a short gap between shifts is still usable OET listening practice: Part B alone is eleven minutes, Part A alone seventeen.

If the score is not moving after a run of mocks, the problem is usually method rather than exposure. The OET Listening course works through the traps part by part, and the OET study guides cover the same ground in writing before your first sitting.

Built and reviewed by Dr Ahmed Elgendy

Dr Ahmed Elgendy, licensed medical doctor and certified OET instructor. Every listening mock on this page is delivered as thirteen separate recordings, one per exam screen, with the Part A note pages laid out against the original and the transcripts checked line by line against the published script. The worked example on this page was written by him for this page.

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