MET (Michigan English Tests) study guide
MET · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
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 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,281 words.
01Writing: Task Achievement, Register, and Cohesion
MET writing asks you to produce a short message (usually an email or note) and a longer piece such as an opinion paragraph or short essay. Scores come from two families of criteria: task achievement - did you address every bullet, question, or instruction with the right amount of detail - and language quality , meaning organization, cohesion, vocabulary range, and grammatical accuracy.
341 words, about 2 min02Listening: Paraphrase, Distractors, and Detail
MET listening includes short conversations and longer talks or interviews, tested through multiple-choice questions and occasionally note completion. You need gist (what is the conversation mainly about), specific detail (times, prices, names, places), speaker purpose and attitude (persuading, complaining, apologizing), and inference (what is implied but not stated).
317 words, about 2 min03Reading: Main Idea, Inference, and Elimination
MET reading passages range from short notices and advertisements to longer articles. Questions target main idea , specific detail , inference , vocabulary in context , reference (what does this or they point to), and text organization (what comes next, what is the writer's purpose, which heading fits).
307 words, about 2 min04Speaking: Fluency, Development, and Interaction
MET speaking is a live exchange with an examiner covering familiar topics, a picture or situation description, and opinion questions. Ratings rest on fluency and coherence (can you keep going and stay on track), pronunciation (stress, intonation, understandable connected speech), grammatical range and accuracy , vocabulary range , and interactive communication (answering, developing, and responding to the examiner).
316 words, about 2 min