PTE Listening
PTE listening last section where candidates assess how an individual understand the message communicated and responded appropriately. This section will last around 45 to 60 minutes. Before this section, optional 10 minutes break is there, which is recommended to take. PTE listening is the other section where most of the student find it difficult and unable to score their desired result. PTE listening is all about understanding what other person is trying to say and respond accordingly. This blog will provide you details about PTE listening section and tasks involved in it. About score distribution and key points to consider to improve the score. PTE listening includes eight important tasks.
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Summarize spoken text
Skills tested: Listening and writing.
Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; summarizing the main idea; identifying supporting points or examples; identifying a speaker’s purpose, style, tone or attitude; understanding academic vocabulary; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; classifying and categorizing information; following an oral sequencing of information; comprehending variations in tone, speed and accent.
Multiple-choice, choose multiple answers
Skills tested: Listening
Sub-skills tested: Any of the following dependent on the item: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying supporting points or examples; Identifying specific details, facts, opinions, definitions or sequences of events; identifying a speaker’s purpose, style, tone or attitude; identifying the overall organization of information and connections between pieces of information; inferring the context, purpose or tone; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; predicting how a speaker may continue.
Fill in the blanks
Skills tested: Listening and writing
Sub-skills tested: Identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context; understanding academic vocabulary; comprehending explicit and implicit information; following an oral sequencing of information.
Highlight correct summary
Skills tested: Listening and reading
Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying supporting points or examples; understanding academic vocabulary; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; classifying and categorizing information; following an oral sequencing of information; comprehending variations in tone, speed and accent.
Multiple-choice, choose single answer
Skills tested: Listening
Sub-skills tested: Any of the following dependent on the item: Any of the following dependent on the item: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying supporting points or examples; Identifying specific details, facts, opinions, definitions or sequences of events; identifying a speaker’s purpose, style, tone or attitude; identifying the overall organization of information and connections between pieces of information; inferring the context, purpose or tone; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; predicting how a speaker may continue.
Select missing word
Skills tested: Listening
Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context; understanding academic vocabulary; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; following an oral sequencing of information; predicting how a speaker may continue; forming a conclusion from what a speaker says; comprehending variations in tone, speed, and accent.
Highlight incorrect words
Skills tested: Listening and reading
Sub-skills tested: Identifying errors in a transcription; understanding academic vocabulary; following an oral sequencing of information; comprehending variations in tone, speed, and accent; understanding academic vocabulary; following a logical or chronological sequence of events; reading a text under timed conditions; matching written text to speech.
Strategies:
- Quickly read the text before you listen to focus on keywords
- Follow the text with the cursor as you listen. You have to choose the wrong words as the text is read
- Focus on the words such as noun, adjectives, verbs
- Try to understand general topic and try to identify incorrect words
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Write from dictation
Skills tested: Listening and writing
Sub-skills tested: Understanding academic vocabulary; following an oral sequencing of information; comprehending variations in tone, speed, and accent; writing from dictation; using correct spelling.
Strategies:
- Listen attentively
- Type as many correct words as you can remember in the correct order
- Review sentence for GRAMMER, SPELLING, PUNCTUATION
- In exam, this will be the last section, take care of time
