PTE Reading
PTE reading section assesses candidates on how an individual comprehend the text and understand the idea behind it. PTE reading is the other section where most of the student find it difficult. PTE reading is all about understanding general idea and supporting detail which explains with various examples. This blog will provide you details about PTE reading section and tasks involved in it. About score distribution and key points to consider to improve the score. PTE reading includes five important tasks.
PTE Sprinters provide plenty of study material for repeat sentence practice, tips and tricks can be found in the respective section.
Reading Multiple-choice, choose single answer
Skills tested: Reading
Sub-skills tested: Any of the following dependent on the item: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying the relationships between sentences and paragraphs; evaluating the quality and usefulness of texts; identifying a writer’s purpose, style, tone or attitude; identifying supporting points or examples; reading for overall organization and connections between pieces of information; reading for information to infer meanings or find relationships; identifying specific details, facts, opinions, definitions or sequences of events; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Multiple-choice, choose multiple answers
Skills tested: Reading
Sub-skills tested: Any of the following dependent on the item: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying the relationships between sentences and paragraphs; evaluating the quality and usefulness of texts; identifying a writer’s purpose, style, tone or attitude; identifying supporting points or examples; reading for overall organization and connections between pieces of information; reading for information to infer meanings or find relationships; identifying specific details, facts, opinions, definitions or sequences of events; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Re-order paragraphs
Skills tested: Reading
Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying supporting points or examples; identifying the relationships between sentences and paragraphs; understanding academic vocabulary; understanding the difference between connotation and denotation; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; classifying and categorizing information; following a logical or chronological sequence of events.
Fill in the blanks
Skills tested: Reading
Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context; understanding academic vocabulary; understanding the difference between connotation and denotation; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; following a logical or chronological sequence of events.
Strategies:
* Skim for overall meaning to help choose the right word
* Read before and after the spaces to identify the correct word
* Think about words that you often see or hear together. Knowing these can help you recognize the correct word for each blank
* If you can’t select the word for meaning, look for grammar clues to select the correct option
Reading and writing: Fill in the blanks
Skills tested: Reading and writing
Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context; understanding academic vocabulary; understanding the difference between connotation and denotation; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; following a logical or chronological sequence of events.
Same as fill in the blanks strategies can be apply in this task as well.
Optional 10 break
After the reading section, there will be 10 minutes optional break. We recommend you to take this break and make yourself prepare for next section which is PTE Listening.