Our mock exams catalog holds full, timed PTE Academic and PTE Core tests, each covering Speaking & Writing, Reading and Listening in one sitting. One mock per exam type is marked as a free preview, so you can open it and look through its questions before deciding whether to take a full, timed attempt with Pro. This page explains exactly what the free preview shows you, and what changes once you start a real attempt.
What the free mock includes
One free preview mock per exam type (PTE Academic and PTE Core), built with the same manifest pipeline as every paid mock — not a cut-down demo.
The real section order, question types and timing for that exam.
Answer keys are public: you can review the correct answer for any question, free account or not.
What requires Pro
Starting a timed attempt (recording your Speaking answers, typing your Writing answers, and submitting Reading/Listening answers) requires LexiPTE Pro.
AI scoring and feedback on your Speaking and Writing responses is a Pro feature.
Every mock exam on the site is built from the same published question bank as our individual practice pages, using the same task types and section structure Pearson uses: Speaking & Writing, then Reading, then Listening. There is no separate set of placeholder or filler questions behind the mock exams; every mock, the free preview included, draws curated questions from that bank.
Each exam catalog card tells you which exam it covers, so you can start a full attempt or, where the site offers it, a shorter section-only practice covering just Speaking & Writing, Reading or Listening.
What the free preview actually lets you do
Exactly one mock exam per exam type — one for Academic, one for Core — is flagged as the free preview. You can open it from the exams catalog without an account or a subscription and look through every question in order, in the same layout a real attempt uses.
The preview is read-only: you can see the questions, but answering, submitting, and starting the timed attempt itself require a LexiPTE Pro subscription, the same as any other mock exam in the catalog. The preview exists so you can judge the format and difficulty before you commit to a full attempt, not to complete a scored test for free.
Starting a full, timed attempt
Starting any mock exam as a timed attempt, including the preview exam, requires a Pro subscription. Once you start, Speaking and Writing items get their own timers and Reading and Listening run on section clocks, using Pearson's published timings where Pearson states them and our own estimates where it does not. Your responses are recorded, and the test moves through the same section order as the real exam.
If the time limit runs out, the attempt closes as expired, and you can still open its questions afterwards to review them.
How your results are broken down
After an attempt, your results page groups every question by skill and task, so you can see how you did in each Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing task type separately rather than only an overall figure. Objective question types — multiple choice, fill in the blanks, reorder paragraph and similar tasks — are marked automatically against the answer key, and each question shows as correct, wrong or unanswered; a partially correct answer counts as wrong on this page.
Writing, Speaking and Summarize Spoken Text responses are not simple right-or-wrong items, so your results page shows these as submitted responses you can review, rather than an automatic correct or incorrect mark. You can also open the results page of any exam even without an attempt, to see the full question set laid out with its correct answers, which is a useful way to study the format before you attempt it for real.
What a mock test is, and is not
A mock exam on this site is a practice tool built from our own question bank and our own scoring, not a Pearson product. It is useful for practising the section order, timing and format of the real test, and for identifying which task types need more work.
Treat any score or estimate from a mock exam as a study signal, not as a preview of your official Pearson result. Only a proctored PTE test produces a real, reportable score.
Opening the free preview exam and looking through its questions needs no account. Starting a timed attempt, answering questions and getting a results breakdown of your own answers all require a LexiPTE Pro subscription, whether you use the preview exam or any other mock in the catalog.
Yes. The results page for any exam in the catalog is open to everyone, and shows every question with its correct answer, even if you have never attempted that exam. It is designed to help you study the format, not to replace taking a full, scored attempt yourself.
The preview uses questions from our own curated bank, built to match Pearson's published task types and format. It is not a copy of a real Pearson exam paper.
Yes. The exams catalog flags one preview exam for PTE Academic and a separate one for PTE Core, each covering that exam's own section structure and timing.
Not necessarily. A mock exam is a practice tool for identifying strengths and weaknesses across task types; only a proctored PTE test produces an official, reportable score.
