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 […]

PTE Academic Describe Image

The third question type will test speaking skills by describing an image. There are 6-7 questions. You will be shown an image and have 25 seconds to study the image and prepare your response. For this task, use the Erasable Noteboard Booklet to take short notes. After a short tone is heard, start speaking straight away. You will have 40 […]

PTE Academic Repeat Sentence

The second question type is Repeat Sentence, which will test listening and speaking skills. You will listen to a recording between 3-9 seconds and are given 15 seconds to answer. Once the microphone shows as recording, you will need to speak straight away and say all the words that the speaker uses, in the same order. For this question, you can […]