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You register for the Michigan English Test (MET) either with a local test centre or through the Michigan Customer Portal, and because MET runs on demand you choose the date at the end of that process rather than waiting for a published sitting. Plan on a test centre, because at-home MET is paused. This page covers the registration routes, how dates and centres work, what the fee includes, and when results appear.
How to register for MET
There are two registration routes, and both finish with a paid booking and a confirmed date.
- Register directly with a local test centre. If a centre in your area delivers MET, you can book with that centre and sit the test there.
- Register through the Michigan Customer Portal. The owner's online route runs in a set order: create a profile, complete the registration form, pay the registration fee, then schedule the test date.
Scheduling comes last in the portal process, so it helps to know which centre you want and roughly which dates suit you before you pay.
The exam is the same computer-delivered test either way. If you are sitting MET for a visa, a licence or an admissions requirement rather than for course placement, read the receiving organisation's conditions before you pay: most recognising organisations require the full 4-skill exam, and some add rules about where the test has to be taken.
MET test dates: on demand, not fixed
MET has no fixed national test dates. Dates are on demand: you register, then choose from the availability the centre or the portal has open. There is no annual or monthly sitting to plan around.
What limits you instead is availability at a particular centre. A venue that runs MET regularly will usually show more open dates than one that schedules it occasionally, so if you need a specific week, ask more than one centre before you commit.
The one place where on-demand delivery no longer applies is at-home testing, which has no future dates after the pause described below.
Which centre can you take MET at?
MET is delivered at two kinds of venue:
- Approved MET Test Centers — venues approved by Michigan Language Assessment. Both versions of the exam are offered here: the full 4-skill test, and the shortened 2-skill version covering listening and reading.
- Prometric test centres — Prometric locations worldwide, which deliver the 4-skill MET.
The shortened version covers listening and reading only, and most recognising organisations ask for the 4-skill exam, so unless your receiving body accepts the 2-skill result, book the full test.
Centre coverage differs by country and the network changes, so use the current list on Michigan Language Assessment's own site rather than a snapshot on a guide page. Prometric pricing is published separately from the prices individual test centres set.
MET at home is no longer available
MET at home is no longer available. Registration for at-home MET closed on 17 September 2026, and the final at-home test date was 30 September 2026. Michigan Language Assessment describes the pause as indefinite, with no restart date, so a test centre is the only realistic plan.
Testing at approved centres is unaffected, and centre dates continue to be offered on demand. The change matters most to candidates who were waiting for an at-home date, to Australian visa applicants, whose requirements exclude at-home results, and to U.S. healthcare applicants, whose processes do not accept at-home versions of English proficiency exams.
If you sat the at-home version before the pause, treat it as a past result you cannot repeat, and confirm with the organisation you are applying to whether it accepts that sitting.
What MET costs and what the fee includes
MET pricing is not one global figure. Pricing varies by centre: each test centre sets its own price for a MET sitting, and Prometric pricing is published separately on Michigan Language Assessment's MET pricing page. The fee charged in one city is not a reliable guide to another, so check the current price for the centre you intend to use.
The registration fee includes more than the seat: test accommodations, digital score reports, and unlimited sharing of your results with recognising organisations.
A single-section retake is available, which matters if one skill is holding your overall result back. Retake rules are handled by the centre or through the portal, so confirm the process and any charge when you book.
How long MET takes
MET is a 155-minute test across four sections, with secure check-in on top of that:
| Section | Format | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Writing | 2 tasks | 45 minutes |
| Listening | 3 parts | 35 minutes |
| Reading | Comprehension and grammar | 65 minutes |
| Speaking | Recorded responses to onscreen prompts | 10 minutes |
| Total | 4-skill exam | 155 minutes |
Secure check-in needs additional time before the test begins. Inside the exam you work at your own pace within each section's allotted minutes, so the split above is a ceiling for each part rather than a pace you must follow.
The shortened exam is different: it covers listening and reading only and is offered only at approved MET Test Centers, not at Prometric locations.
When results arrive and who you can send them to
Results are typically available within 5 days of your test. Score reports are digital, and you can share them with recognising organisations at no extra cost, with no limit on how many organisations you send them to.
More than 2,000 organisations recognise MET. They include the Australian Department of Home Affairs for visa purposes; in the United States, HRSA, TruMerit and agencies and boards of nursing for licensure and visa applications; and colleges and universities for admissions. What that means in practice depends on which list you fall under, so see the countries and organisations accepting MET before you assume one result covers every application.
If your applications run over a longer period, check each organisation's own rule about how recent your result needs to be. For background on how English test requirements sit inside a wider visa plan, the PrepSettle blog covers the surrounding steps.
What to check before you book: Australia and U.S. nursing
Two audiences should confirm a condition before booking rather than after sitting the test.
Australian visas. Only the 4-skill MET taken at a test centre on or after 7 August 2025 counts for Australian visa purposes. A shortened 2-skill result, an at-home result, or a 4-skill test sat before that date does not meet the requirement, whatever the score. The detail is in MET for Australian visa requirements and MET for nurses and healthcare visas.
U.S. nursing and VisaScreen. MET is recognised in the United States for licensure and visa applications by HRSA, TruMerit and agencies and boards of nursing. VisaScreen, TruMerit's Visa Credentials Assessment, includes MET on its list of approved English language proficiency exams, and it does not accept at-home versions of any test on that list. The minimum score varies by profession and is published in TruMerit's own table, so check the current figure for your profession: see MET and VisaScreen and MET for U.S. nursing licensure. The state-by-state position is in the guide to states accepting MET.
A short checklist before you pay for a date:
- Confirm which exam version your receiving organisation accepts: the 4-skill test or, in limited cases, the 2-skill listening and reading version.
- Confirm the venue type it accepts. For Australian visa purposes that means a test centre.
- Confirm the score you need from that organisation's own published requirement.
Preparing for the test itself
Free practice with no login, plus a section-by-section study guide.
Last verified: 15 October 2026. Registration routes, on-demand dates, centre types, section times and results timing were checked against Michigan Language Assessment's official MET pages on that date. Fees and centre availability are set by each test centre and change.