Password Skills Plus Vocabulary Game
Exam terms with clues and explanations by OpenExamPrep.
About the Password Skills Plus Vocabulary Games
4 free word games built on 20 Password Skills Plus terms across 5 topics. Every game deals terms at random and shows what each term means, so you can keep playing as long as you like.
How to Play
- 1.Read the clue and type the term (3 to 6 letters).
- 2.Green: right spot. Yellow: wrong spot. Gray: not in the term.
- 3.Solve it in 6 tries, then read the explanation.
- 1.Swap two neighboring tiles to line up 3 of the same term.
- 2.Longer lines, two lines at once and chains score more.
- 3.Play until no swap can make a line.
- 1.Flip two cards. A matching pair stays face up.
- 2.Each pair you find shows what the term means.
- 3.Clear the board in as few moves as you can.
- 1.Find each listed term in the letter grid.
- 2.Drag across its letters: across, down or diagonally.
- 3.Find all five as fast as you can.
Topics in the Password Skills Plus Vocabulary Game
Environment
Health
Academic study
Culture and belief
Research and argument
Sources for these terms (26)
- SOIL — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- SCARCE — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- URBAN — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- RURAL — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- VIRUS — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- THREAT — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- STRESS — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- MENTAL — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- NOTION — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- LOGIC — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- THEORY — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- CITE — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- SACRED — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- MYTH — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- SYMBOL — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- TEMPLE — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- FACTOR — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- SURVEY — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- IMPACT — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- ADAPT — Cambridge Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- soil — Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- scarce — Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- cite — Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- symbol — Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- temple — Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
- factor — Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary · Source checked 2026-11-06
About the Password Skills Plus Exam
Password Skills Plus is an online, four-skill academic English language test designed and academically managed by CRELLA, a world-leading research group at the University of Bedfordshire, and delivered by English Language Testing Ltd. It assesses Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking and is accepted by many UK universities for undergraduate and postgraduate admission. The test takes about three hours and five minutes and is taken at home under live online proctoring by ProctorU (Meazure Learning), with each test built from randomly selected items drawn from a large secure question bank. The receptive Reading and Listening modules are the multiple-choice-testable parts: Reading uses five tasks (sentence ordering, gap-fill, an eight-question comprehension MCQ set, matching headings and summary ordering) while Listening uses five sections of short-recording multiple-choice items, a correct/incorrect/not-mentioned points task, a longer lecture with five questions and a two-speaker matching task. Scores are reported on the Password scale and mapped to CEFR levels A2 to C1, with each university setting the level it requires.
Exam sponsor: English Language Testing Ltd (ELT), academically designed and managed by CRELLA at the University of Bedfordshire.. The requirements and fees below concern the certification or admission exam, separate from our free practice resources.
Assessment
Question count not published by the exam provider
Time Limit
Three hours and five minutes total: Reading 75 minutes, Writing 30 minutes, Listening 60 minutes, Speaking 20 minutes.
Passing Score
Reported on the Password scale (Pre-Password to Password 7.0 and above) and the CEFR (A2 to C1); each university sets its own required score, often Password 5.5 (B2) for entry.
Exam / Certification Fees
£110 plus taxes such as UK VAT where applicable when bought directly from English Language Testing Ltd.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Password Skills Plus vocabulary game free?
Yes. The game is free to play with no sign-up. Signing in adds AI explanations for any term.
How do the Password Skills Plus vocabulary games work?
There are 4 games built on 20 Password Skills Plus terms. In Guess the Term, a clue describes one term and you have six tries to spell it, with green, yellow and gray letters showing how close you are. In Term Match, six terms appear as colored tiles; swap neighbors to line up three or more of the same term, and each match shows what the term means. In Term Pairs, twelve face-down cards hide six pairs of terms; flip two at a time to find each pair, and every pair you find shows what the term means. In Term Search, five terms hide in a grid of letters, reading across, down or diagonally; drag across a term to circle it, and each term you find shows what it means.
Where do the Password Skills Plus terms come from?
OpenExamPrep researched each term from the English Language Testing Ltd (ELT), academically designed and managed by CRELLA at the University of Bedfordshire. content outline and primary sources, listed under Sources on this page. The game is independent study material, not an official exam resource.
What is the Password Skills Plus test?
Password Skills Plus is an online academic English language test assessing Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. It is delivered by English Language Testing Ltd, academically managed by CRELLA at the University of Bedfordshire, and accepted by many UK universities for admission.
How long is the Password Skills Plus test and how is it structured?
The test takes three hours and five minutes: Reading 75 minutes, Writing 30 minutes, Listening 60 minutes and Speaking 20 minutes. Reading has five tasks and Listening has five sections, both increasing in difficulty as the module progresses.