Nauti Test ProIndependent practice · the three written Marlins tests
Twelve short practice tests in the format of the Marlins English tests — six for the test for seafarers, three for cruise ship staff and three for offshore workers. Each one has ten questions on one section of the test or one part of the job, the right answer and why it is right. The questions are ours, written in the format of the test; none of them is a Marlins question. No account needed.
Start with the test for your job. Deck and engine crew sit the test for seafarers; the hotel side of a cruise ship sits the test for cruise ship staff; platforms, drilling units and offshore wind sit the test for offshore workers. The score you need is set by your employer, not by Marlins — see what Marlins score you need, by rank.
Test 1 is a sample of the whole test; tests 2 to 6 take one section each. The real test is 85 questions, with 60 minutes recommended; these pages give 4 options per question, as the test does. About the test itself: Marlins test for seafarers.
A first look at the whole test: two recordings, then grammar and vocabulary in the settings the test uses — the pilot boarding, a standing order, the engine room.
10 questions: 2 listening · 5 grammar · 3 vocabulary — 2 with audio.
Catching one detail — a figure, a person, the next action — in a message you can play twice at most, and telling apart words that differ by a single sound.
10 questions: 4 listening · 2 different sounds · 2 grammar · 1 vocabulary · 1 time and numbers — 6 with audio.
Section guide: Marlins test listening guide
Choosing the form a sentence needs from its time words and its subject: tenses, conditionals, reported speech, prepositions of time and quantifiers.
10 questions: 10 grammar.
Section guide: Marlins test grammar guide
Knowing the word used on board — for deck fittings, the engine, stability, the sea, fire safety and crewing — and recognising it from a definition or a sentence.
10 questions: 10 vocabulary.
Section guide: Marlins test vocabulary guide
Hearing and reading figures the way they are said on board: positions, courses, engine revolutions, pressures, loads, the 24-hour clock and the watch system.
10 questions: 10 time and numbers — 5 with audio.
Section guide: Marlins test time and numbers guide
Reading a short text from the ship — a log extract, a drill report, an inspection, a rule — and finding the line that answers the question, without adding what you know about the job.
10 questions: 1 listening · 1 grammar · 1 vocabulary · 1 time and numbers · 6 reading — 2 with audio.
Section guide: Marlins test reading guide
The test for the hotel side of a cruise ship: guest services, the restaurant, the bar, housekeeping. The real test is 50 questions, with 30 minutes recommended; these pages give 3 options per question, as the test does. About the test itself: Marlins test for cruise ship staff.
Service English on the hotel side of the ship: helping a guest, the tense that fits the moment, and the words of the cabin and the restaurant.
10 questions: 2 listening · 4 grammar · 4 vocabulary — 2 with audio.
Hearing what a guest or a colleague wants and choosing the reply that is polite, natural and useful — not only grammatically possible.
10 questions: 6 listening · 3 grammar · 1 vocabulary — 6 with audio.
Section guide: Marlins test listening guide
Knowing the words of the restaurant, the galley and the cabin — glassware, portions, the menu, stores, what has gone wrong in a cabin — and hearing them in an order or a handover.
10 questions: 2 listening · 8 vocabulary — 2 with audio.
Section guide: Marlins test vocabulary guide
The test for oil and gas platforms, drilling units and offshore wind. Each page is set in one part of the job and mixes the sections. The real test is 80 screens worth 85 points, with 60 minutes recommended; these pages give 3 options per question, as the test does. About the test itself: Marlins test for offshore workers.
The English of the drilling and lifting crews — a stuck pipe, a near miss by the mud pumps, a container the crane will not lift — and the tenses and words that go with the work.
10 questions: 3 listening · 4 grammar · 3 vocabulary — 3 with audio.
The language of safety offshore — alarm tests, the muster and its T-cards, permits to work, gas testing — and the imperatives and time clauses of a safety instruction.
10 questions: 3 listening · 4 grammar · 3 vocabulary — 3 with audio.
The English of getting to and living on an installation — helicopter baggage and delays, supply-vessel days, the camp boss, the galley and the weather.
10 questions: 3 listening · 4 grammar · 3 vocabulary — 3 with audio.
A practice test tells you where you lose marks; a guide tells you why. Each one explains how Marlins asks that section, the usual traps and how to practise them.
Thirty more questions on one page, grouped by section: Marlins test questions and answers. For the speaking test: the TOSE interview questions by job.
The free pages are ten questions each. Nauti Test Pro has 3,804 questions in the format of the three written Marlins tests, 830 of them recorded, the screens the free pages cannot show — word order, typed numbers, the reading gaps — and a timed simulation of each test scored section by section.