MET (Michigan English Tests) case studies
MET · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Michigan English Test (MET) is a digital English proficiency exam from Michigan Language Assessment, aimed at test takers from secondary school age through adulthood, and it reports performance across CEFR levels A2 to C1. It is used for education admissions, professional and work requirements, immigration purposes, and personal goals, and the provider states that more than 2,000 organizations recognize it. The MET case studies are 5 cases and about 3,378 words.
1The 240-Word Essay That Argues Well and Reads Badly
You teach a 14-week MET preparation course. A student, Ana, writes a 240-word opinion essay in 30 minutes on whether her city should close its center to cars.
722 words, about 4 min2The Lecture That Reverses Itself
You are running a listening workshop with a three-minute recorded mini-lecture about declining bee colonies. The transcript contains this sequence: 'For years, researchers assumed colony collapse was driven mainly by pesticides - that is still the headline.
678 words, about 3 min3Reads Everything Twice, Arrives Nowhere
A student, Priya, completes a 700-word MET-style reading passage in nine minutes and answers ten questions. She gets 8 of 10 main-idea items right but only 2 of 8 items requiring inference or vocabulary-in-context.
651 words, about 3 min4Four Speakers, One Microphone
You are rating a four-candidate group discussion: eight minutes, task = decide whether the school should ban phones in class and reach a group recommendation. Candidate B speaks roughly 70% of the turns, interrupts three times, and twice pulls the group into a tangent about social media and sleep.
652 words, about 3 min5Borrowed Phrases, Misplaced Statistic
A student, Tomas, writes a 180-word summary-and-response to a short source text about remote work. Two phrases are lifted verbatim without quotation marks: 'a fundamental paradigm shift' and 'the productivity paradox'.
675 words, about 3 min