Speaking Strategy PTE Retell Lecture:Stop Freestyling and Use a Structure If you hesitate in Retell Lecture, the problem is usually not your English. It is that you have no plan. Here is the five-step structure I teach. Quick Answer Do not freestyle Retell Lecture. Use a fixed five-step structure: introduce the topic, add a filler
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Speaking Strategy PTE Speaking Times:How Long You Should Actually Speak You get 40 seconds. You do not need to use all of them. Here are the speaking times we found after 25 real exams. Quick Answer Speak for about 25 seconds in Describe Image, Retell Lecture and Respond to a Situation, even though you are
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Writing Strategy PTE Essay Writing:The Sentence-by-Sentence Outline Most students lose marks because they copy a template from the internet instead of answering the question. This outline tells you what to write in every sentence. Quick Answer Write four paragraphs: an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The introduction has four sentences plus a filler.
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Speaking Strategy PTE Respond to a Situation: The Complete Strategy Respond to a Situation feels harder than it is because it’s too open — no passage, no image, just a scenario and you. Here’s the full strategy for handling it naturally. Quick Answer Respond to a Situation (worth roughly 10-12 points) isn’t testing vocabulary or
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Real Exam Research Does PTE’s Human Scoring Make It Harder Than IELTS? I Tested Both Since PTE introduced a human-scoring component to its evaluation, some students have been considering switching to IELTS, assuming it would be the easier option. So I sat both exams and compared the results directly. Quick Answer Based on a direct
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Real Exam Research Is PTE Academic Easier or Harder Since the August 2025 Changes? A module-by-module breakdown based on real exam testing, where questions were deliberately answered in isolation to see exactly where the points actually come from now. Quick Answer Three of the four modules got easier since PTE’s August 2025 scoring changes: Speaking,
Real Exam Research Same Essay Approach, Different Score: Why One Person Gets 90 and Another Doesn’t Get the Same Score Someone got 90 on the PTE essay. You used the exact same approach and scored low. It’s not luck, and it’s not that you did it wrong — here are the two most common reasons
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Real Exam Research 3 Things Most Students Get Wrong About PTE Scoring Since the August 2025 Changes Since PTE Academic’s scoring changes in August 2025, a 90 doesn’t mean what most people think it means, mock tests don’t score the same way the real exam does, and the points behind each task carry different weight
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Real Exam Research How to Read Your PTE Skills Profile: Which Tasks Affect Extended Writing vs. Short Writing PTE never explains which tasks feed which category in your Skills Profile — which means most students can’t tell which task to actually practice when a specific score is low. So we ran a series of real exam
