60 minutes · With a real examiner · $25
You're not bad at English. You freeze. You run out of time. One low score drags the whole test down — and nobody tells you why. In 60 minutes, I score you on all 10 official DET criteria and find the exact reason. Then I send you a full written report on how to fix it.
$25 · Online · You leave with a written report
I see the same thing every single week.
You read the answer. You know it's right. But if someone asked you why, you'd freeze. One real student just wrote: "idk, it's just right." The test scores the why — not the answer.
You write a sentence that's correct — but flat. No reason. No example. No "because." The test wants the because, and that's where your points go.
The clock is the real enemy. You use all 60 seconds and still don't finish. The students who score high? They answer in 20.
It's not your English. Nobody ever showed you what the test is actually scoring. Once you see it, it's fixable — fast.
You speak, write, read, and listen with me — live, the same tasks as the real test.
I score you on all 10 official DET criteria and find the 2–3 costing you points. Not "study more" — the specific thing.
You leave with a full written report — your ranked weak spots and what to fix first.
The DET grades every answer on 10 official criteria — 6 for speaking, 4 for writing. Most students have no idea which ones are costing them points. In your 60 minutes, I score you on all 10, then send a written report showing the 2 or 3 that are actually holding your score down.
Scored on both speaking & writing
Speaking only
Your report tells you:
It's yours to keep. Even if we never work together again, you'll know exactly what to do next.
You understand English. You read, you write, you speak. So why are you stuck? Two reasons.
You're good at understanding English. But when you have to produce it — under a timer — it's hard. That's because, without knowing it, you translate from your first language. That takes time you don't have. Fix this, and you stop freezing.
Most DET courses never mention this. Your first language quietly shapes your English — the way you build sentences, the words you reach for. The test notices. Once you can see the difference, you write the way the test rewards.
Every name and detail is from a real class.
It all started with one diagnostic — the same 60 minutes you're booking.
90 → 105 → aiming for 115
Enea came to me stuck at an official 90, with a Master's deadline. We found his exact block and fixed it. He certified at 105 — his Speaking jumped from 80 to 100. He's now back, pushing for 115.
Archana — French
She wrote in heavy noun piles: "the creation of a painting gives the elimination of stress." Correct — but the test hates it. I showed her that English loves verbs. Same session, she rewrote it herself: "When people paint nature, it helps them forget the stress of exams and job interviews." Three verbs. That's what the test rewards.
Ana Luiza — Portuguese
She described things in a vague way — "they refine the clay" — with no detail. The test wants steps. I handed her a water bottle and said "tell me how to drink this." By the end she broke a whole process into clear steps, on her own.
Omar — French & Arabic
He built every answer backwards: story first, main point last. English is the opposite — point first, then support. One rule changed both his writing and his speaking. When it clicked he said: "Oh — because they're not telling me something, they're asking me to tell them."
"Since starting with LU English, I can think in English. The most important thing isn't grammar — it's how to use it in real situations."
Matías — Argentina
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I'm Sean. I have an MA in Translation Studies and I'm a certified examiner. I've taught in seven countries.
I learned Spanish to the top level the hard way — living it. So I know the exact feeling: you understand everything, but the words won't come out. It took me years to find the fix. It worked for me, and it works for my students.
60 minutes, online, with me. You leave with a written report on exactly why your score is stuck.
This helps me prepare — and it's where I send your report and booking confirmation.