Read aloud
Communicative skills tested: Reading and speaking.
Subskills tested: Identifying a writer’s purpose, style, tone or attitude; understanding academic vocabulary; reading a text under timed conditions.
Speaking for a purpose (to repeat, to inform, to explain); reading a text aloud; speaking at a natural rate; producing fluent speech; using correct intonation; using correct pronunciation; using correct stress; speaking under timed conditions.
Scoring:
Communicative skills |
Reading and speaking |
Enabling skills and other traits scored |
Content: Each replacement, omission or insertion of a word counts as one error Maximum score: depends on the length of the item prompt |
Pronunciation: 5 Native-like 4 Advanced 3 Good 2 Intermediate 1 Intrusive 0 Non-English |
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Oral fluency: 5 Native-like 4 Advanced 3 Good 2 Intermediate 1 Limited, 0 Disfluent |
Source: https://pearsonpte.com
is reading speed important in scoring when I finish the reading the text in the time limited (for example 30s is considered for the reading. I finish it by 18s while the AI says to me you are slow!!!)
It seems like this.
It mentioned that in RA score:
Your reading speed was relatively fast!!
what does it means??