PTEversity blogs: Target 79+ in the PTE Academic

PTE Listening -- HIGHLIGHT CORRECT SUMMARY -- Scoring Technique This section would be a cakewalk for those who watch a couple of English movies every now and then. People who are not that comfortable with foreign accents might find this section a bit difficult.  You would be assessed on your ability to listen to a recorded speech and select the most appropriate summary from the available 4 to 5 answer options. You also do a fair bit of reading here, and hence it assesses your reading skills as well. You will have 10 crucial seconds to quickly go through all the answer options and understand the context of the passage. Focus, focus and focus. Try to understand the speaker’s frame of mind.     Eliminating 2 options would not be a difficult task as almost every multiple choice question has 2 irrelevant answer options. Do that as quickly as possible. There would be 2 close options to choose from. But remember that only one of these 2 options would be a complete summa

Good at shorthand, aren’t you? You would be required to listen to an audio clip, anywhere between 60 to 90 seconds, and then convey the same message by writing a few sentences between 50 to 70 words (overall) in 10 minutes. Shorthand, by the way, is a technique of accelerated handwriting used for taking notes of the facts, sometimes the main idea of the speech, to later refer back and present your own form of the story in a concise manner. There will be 2 such questions and a lot of practice is required to get the maximum scores from this section. A fairly big notepad and a pen are the two weapons provided to all test takers. You now know that the war is about to begin :) Even though you have 10 minutes to respond to 1 question, you should start taking notes as soon as the speaker begins. Don’t wait to understand the context initially. Cannot skip taking notes as it would be quite difficult to remember all the points described in the audio lecture. It’s very impo