Two rooms, two jobs. The exam room runs the real final-exam format and scores you out of 10. The practice room is where mistakes are free: warm up your ear, replay sentences, look words up, and collect what you keep missing.
The clock keeps running whether or not you stay. If you leave the app, it records that you left and for how long, and the session is marked broken — nothing is hidden and nothing is blocked. To make leaving genuinely difficult, lock the device itself: iPhone — Settings → Accessibility → Guided Access, then triple-click the side button. Android — Settings → Security → Screen pinning, then pin this tab.
The score is 60% from the proper names and numbers you caught and 40% from how much of the model answer you covered. Figures count in any form — digits, words, or Vietnamese units like tỷ and nghìn — and common abbreviations such as SMEs or FDI count as their full phrase. It matches keywords, so treat it as a guide: a good interpretation can still choose different words.
Numbers are where marks disappear fastest — and the classic traps are -teen vs -ty (thirteen/thirty, fifteen/fifty), the odd thir-/fif- stems, and the nghìn / triệu / tỷ scale. This bank drills all of them. Type any correct form: 940000, 940,000, 940 nghìn, 940k or the words all count.
A tighter drill on the two numbers that cause the most trouble: 3 and 5 — and it leads with the four words that catch everyone out: thirteen / thirty / fifteen / fifty. at bare, hundred, thousand, million and tỷ scale — then it opens up to every shape — three, thirteen, thirty, thirty-three, three hundred, three thousand, 3 tỷ, 35%, 3.5 — and the same for five. Each is read in a different accent (US · UK · AU) where your device has the voice, so the ear learns the sound, not one speaker.
Hear a proper name from your exam slide and pick it out. Practise until you recognise it instantly.
Hear a sentence from the exam bank and fill in the missing words — always a proper name or a number. Figures may be written as digits or words, whichever you would actually say. Replay as often as you need.
The real bottleneck in consecutive interpreting is not vocabulary, it is holding the sentence. You hear it once, then the screen goes blank for a few seconds before you may write. Reproduce as much as you can — in English or Vietnamese.
Part 1 of the exam is Vietnamese into English under time pressure. Here the sentence is on screen, so nothing is hidden from you except the clock: say it aloud in English, type it, and beat the timer.
Press “Show a sentence” to start the clock.
You may take notes during the exam, and a symbol is written in a fraction of the time a word takes. The table below covers every kind of variable these sentences throw at you — trends, logic, quantities, dates, institutions, the speaker's stance, and your own topics.
Do not learn all of them. Interpreters work with roughly 25 symbols they never hesitate over; a symbol you have to think about costs more time than the word it replaced. Pick one category at a time, drill it to a streak of 8, then move on — and keep whichever ones you invent yourself.
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Almost every exam sentence is a news sentence: [who] + [reporting verb] + [figure]. Learn this group and you have the skeleton of the whole paper.
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| the Dinis Guarda Business ABC series | chuỗi chương trình Business ABC của Dinis Guarda | Keep the person and series name; say /ˈdiːnɪʃ ˈɡwɑːrdə/ |
| SMEs | doanh nghiệp nhỏ và vừa (DNNVV) | Listen for “small and medium-sized enterprises” |
| Lumo | Lumo (keep the name) — trợ lý AI bảo mật của Proton | Add a short gloss if your listener does not know it |
| Proton / Proton Mail / Drive / VPN / Pass | Keep the product names; VPN = mạng riêng ảo | “zero-access encryption” = mã hóa không truy cập |
| Anthropic (“Thropic”) | Anthropic (keep the name) — công ty AI tạo ra Claude | “public benefit corporation” = doanh nghiệp vì lợi ích công cộng |
| FOMO | FOMO — hội chứng sợ bỏ lỡ | Fear of missing out — young Vietnamese speakers usually keep “FOMO” |
| ROI | tỷ suất hoàn vốn / lợi tức đầu tư | Return On Investment |
| ERP systems | hệ thống hoạch định nguồn lực doanh nghiệp (ERP) | Enterprise resource planning — keep “ERP” and gloss it |
| AI-First | chiến lược “ưu tiên AI” / lấy AI làm trọng tâm | Usually keep “AI-first”, then explain it |
| API-driven systems | hệ thống vận hành dựa trên API | Application programming interface — giao diện lập trình ứng dụng |
| UAE | Các Tiểu vương quốc Ả Rập Thống nhất (UAE) | Listen for “the United Arab Emirates” |
| Khoa học, Công nghệ và Đổi mới sáng tạo Việt Nam | Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) | Tied to Resolution 57-NQ/TW (22 Dec 2024) |
| ESG | ESG — môi trường, xã hội và quản trị | Environmental, social and governance — keep “ESG” |
| Net Zero | phát thải ròng bằng 0 (Net Zero) | Vietnam pledged net zero by 2050 at COP26 |
Look a word up without leaving the page — or tap any dotted English word in a sentence. Runs through your own Horizon worker.