The PTE Academic is a computer-based test, including 20 different question types assessed in 04 skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing. Some universities only require students to obtain a certain overall score, but some others may ask students to fulfil the Communicative Skills as well. Thus, understanding what sub-score (Communicative Skill area) each question type contributes to definitely helps test-takers know what to focus on strategically to pursue their dreams.
The table below shows what Communicative Skill area each question type clearly contributes to.
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As we can see, several question types contribute to the same sub-score. Hence, in order to upgrade your communicative Skills, you need to improve your performance for some specific question types as follows.
Listening: P1: Repeat Sentence, P1: Re-tell Lecture, P1: Answer Short Question, and all question types in Part 3: Listening.
Reading: P1: Read Aloud, P3: Highlight Correct Summary, P3: Highlight Incorrect Words, and all question types in Part 2: Reading.
Writing: P1: Summarize Written Text, P1: Write Essay, P2: R&W: Fill in the Blanks, P3: Summarize Spoken Text, P3: Fill in the Blanks, P3: Write from Dictation.
But the question is, how do we know which sub-score we are not good at yet, especially each question type so we are able to concentrate on them? Students should not worry because we already have a plan for you to take our FREE 2-hour MOCK test and immediately receive an estimated overall score, sub-scores, and scores for each question type. A sample is as follows:
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All the scores here are on a scale 90, the same as the Pearson Test of English, so students know which sub-score they need to advance after receiving their feedback. For example, if a test-taker wants to improve his Speaking score, then he needs to focus on P1: Describe Image (31-47) and P1: Answer Short Question (55-63) according to the above sample feedback because these two item types have the lowest scores compared to other Speaking item types (P1: Read Aloud, P1: Repeat Sentence, P1: Retell Lecture).
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