Speaking Strategy PTE Repeat Sentence Scoring: Why Half the Sentence Still Gets You 2 Points You do not need every word to score well in Repeat Sentence. Here is how the 3, 2, 1 and 0 content points really work. Quick Answer Repeat Sentence gives you up to 3 points for content. The only way
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Listening Strategy How Many PTE Listening Points ComeFrom Speaking and Writing Tasks? I got 66 in Listening without answering six of the eight Listening tasks. Here is where those points really come from. Quick Answer Most of your Listening score comes from tasks that also give you Speaking and Writing points. When I answered only
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Writing Strategy PTE Summarize Spoken Text:Six Sentences, 9 to 11 Words Each Write nouns in your notes, build short sentences, and stop at 65 to 70 words. Here is the full method, step by step. Quick Answer For Summarize Spoken Text, write only nouns and noun phrases in your notes. Then build six sentences of
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Writing Strategy PTE Summarize Written Text:Why 60–70 Words Is Costing You Marks Summarize Written Text does not just score your writing. It feeds your Reading score too. Writing too many words is probably costing you both. Quick Answer Keep your Summarize Written Text sentence between 35 and 45 words. Not 60 to 70. Summarize Written
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Reading Strategy PTE Reorder Paragraphs:Find the TR.A.P You do not need to read every sentence or work out the full order. You need to find one or two pairs. Here is how. Quick Answer Do not try to read and sequence the whole paragraph. Look for one clear pair of sentences instead — a sentence
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Real Exam Results I Sat the PTE Exam in September.Here Is What Happened. I used everything I teach on this blog, in the same exam, on the same day. Speaking came back 90. This is the fifth month in a row. Quick Answer I sat the official PTE exam on 21 September 2026 and scored
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Speaking Strategy PTE Read Aloud:Rhythm, Stress and Pitch Reading every word correctly is not enough. How you stress the words is what decides your score. Here are the rules I teach. Quick Answer Stress the adjectives, not the nouns. Put a stressed word every three or four words, and never stress two words in a
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Speaking Strategy PTE Summarize Group Discussion:How to Structure Your Answer You do not need to repeat everything you heard. You need a system for taking notes and a steady way of speaking. Here is what I teach. Quick Answer Speak for about one minute of the two you are given. Keep your introduction to around
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Official Mock Test Test Your Microphone Before theOfficial PTE Mock Test If your microphone is not on, you are not testing your English. You are testing your headset. Here is how to check it in two minutes. Quick Answer Do not use the microphone built into your laptop. Use a headset, and use a USB
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