PTE Academic Summarize Spoken Text

The first question type you will need to complete is Summarize Spoken Text, which will tests listening and writing skills. To complete the task, a recording between 60-90 seconds long will be played for you to listen to. As you listen, try to use the Erasable Noteboard Booklet to take notes of key points to help you understand the context. After […]

PTE Academic Reading and Writing: Fill in the Blanks

The last question type will test your reading and writing skills. Reading and Writing: Fill in the Blanks is an integrated skills question type. You will be shown a text prompt of up to 80 words with up to five blank spaces. To complete the question, select one of the five options in each drop-down list to fill in the blank spaces. […]

PTE Academic Reading: Fill in the Blanks

Your reading skills will be tested in the fourth question type, Reading: Fill in the Blanks. You will do 4-5 of these questions. For this question, you will be provided with a text prompt of up to 80 words. There will be 3-5 missing words from the text. You will need to select a single correct answer from the 6-8 words […]

PTE Academic Re-order Paragraphs

The third question type to test reading skills will be to re-order paragraphs. You will be provided with a text prompt of up to 50 words and will be shown some text boxes on the screen in a random order. To complete the question, read the paragraph, then drag and drop or click the arrows on the screen to put […]

PTE Academic Multiple-choice, Choose Multiple Answer

The second question type will be similar to the previous. Multiple-Choice, Choose Multiple Answer will test your reading skills. In this question type, you will be given a text prompt of up to 300 words. Like the previous questions, you will need to answer the question by selecting the most suitable responses from the list of options, based on the content or […]

PTE Academic Multiple-choice, Choose Single Answer

For the first question type, you will need to complete is Multiple-choice, Choose Single Answer question, which is designed to test your reading skills. You will be shown a text prompt for this assessment that will be up to 300 words. Possible response options will be given, with only one being correct. For this question you need to read the text and answer […]

PTE Academic Essay

The last question type of the Speaking and Writing Test will test writing skills. In this question type, you will be provided with 2-3 sentences of text prompt and have 20 minutes to answer, by writing a 200-300 word argumentative essay on a given topic. Time management is important for this task as you will need to plan, write and proofread your […]

PTE Academic Summarize Written Text

In the first question type in the writing section, you will be required to Summarize Written Text, which will test reading and writing skills. You will read a text of up to 300 words and have 10 minutes to write your summary. You will do 2-3 of these questions depending on the combination of tasks in the given test. In this […]

PTE Academic Answer Short Question

The fifth question type, Answer Short Question, will assess listening and speaking skills. There are 10-12 questions in this test. Here, you will be given a prompt of 3-9 seconds and will have 10 seconds to answer the question. You will be required to answer a short question with a clear, simple, single word or a few words. This will not […]

PTE Academic Re-tell Lecture

The fourth question type, Re-tell Lecture, will test your listening and speaking skills. There are 3-4 questions in this test. You will be given a prompt of up to 90 seconds and will have 40 seconds to answer. Audio will be played straight away and you may also see an image related to the audio. While you are listening use the […]