Aptis Grammar and Vocabulary Practice Test

The grammar and vocabulary component is the first thing you sit in the Aptis exam and the one that decides which level the rest of the test starts from. Each Aptis grammar practice test here gives you 25 grammar questions and 25 vocabulary items in 25 minutes — the same volume and the same clock as the real thing — and every grammar answer comes with an explanation of why it is right.

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Ten tests, no registration. You can jump between questions inside a test and review everything before the timer runs out.

What the Aptis grammar and vocabulary test looks like

Two halves that are graded together but tested very differently:

The whole component runs on a single 25-minute timer, so you have roughly 30 seconds per item. That pace is the real difficulty: almost nobody fails this section because a structure is too advanced, they fail it because they spent three minutes on question 7. The other four components, with the same timers, are on Aptis Examen.

Where points are actually lost

• The vocabulary half is not about knowing more words. It is about knowing which words go together: competitive salary, annual turnover, target audience. Studying isolated word lists does almost nothing for it; studying collocations does.
• Answer, flag, move on. If an item takes more than 40 seconds, choose the option that sounds least wrong and come back. An unanswered question is worth zero; a guess between three options is worth a third of a point on average.
• Read the whole sentence before the gap. Many grammar items are decided by a word at the very end — a time expression, a comma before a relative pronoun — not by what surrounds the gap.
• Read the explanations, not just the score. Every grammar item explains why the right option is right. Getting 40/50 twice teaches you nothing; understanding the ten you missed does.
• Repeat a test a week later, not the same day. Same-day repeats measure your memory of the answers, not your grammar.