The invention discloses a method for preparing a solid electrolyte by using lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide precursor coated powder. The method specifically comprises the steps of dissolving a certain amount of lanthanum nitrate and zirconium nitrate into water, adding a precipitator, namely ammonium carbonate, controlling the pH value to ensure that La<3+> and Zr<4+> ions are simultaneously precipitated, and filtering and washing the precipitate; weighing a certain amount of lithium oxalate, dissolving lithium oxalate into water, adding the precipitate into the lithium oxalate solution, stirring, evaporating, crystallizing, and separating out lithium oxalate crystal on the surface of the precipitate to form precursor powder with a coated structure. The prepared powder has the advantages of uniform mixing, fine grains, high purity and the like; through the formed specific coated structure, the calcination temperature of the powder is low, the sintering time of the powder is short, and the room-temperature lithium ion electric conductivity of the sintered lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide is more than 2.2*10<-4>S / cm. According to the method, the process is simple, the cost is low, the preparation conditions are easy to control, and the prepared solid electrolyte is good in electrochemical stability and high in electric conductivity and can be used for preparing all-solid-state lithium ion batteries.