In my last video I told you how different sections are evaluated in PTE and how the
performance in one section affects your score in the other after that many of
you asked me how did you know about all of this that's what I'm going to explain
in this video you will find out how did I know that after doing speaking you
will get 34 in read aloud or 37 in listening let's get started if you're
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us or any new videos we upload every week in today's video we are going to
discuss how did I know that seven questions in a speaking effect listening
and reading and how did I know how much a score they contribute I have already
appeared in seven actual test of PTE and in each of these tests I scored 90 this
consistent result has proved that I know exactly what I'm supposed to do in the
test so I decided that I will also find out how different sections like speaking
or listening or reading contribute score to the other sections the best way
to do this was by doing Pearson Mock Test what I did in this Mock Test was I did
just one section in every mock test every time for example in today's video
I'm going to show you how I learned about the contribution of speaking to
different sections by just attempting the speaking section in the mock test
although I did just a speaking part my overall score was 40 and when I looked
at my score in the other sections I found that in writing I score just 10
and the meaning of getting ten in your test a computer does not have enough
information available to analyze your performance and that's why it gives you
the score of 10 so in my scorecard wherever you are seeing 10 it means that
the computer could not get enough information about the sections or in
other words it also means that when you're doing speaking these
sections can not be analyzed well a practically from that is you may not
need to focus more on these areas when you are doing your speaking the most
important message that you can get from this is if you look at the grammar
scores the computer is showing that my grammar score is only 10 which means if
you are doing a speaking you don't really need to think about grammar much
because the computer itself is not analyzing your grammar the score of 10
proves this on the other hand you can see that my listening score is 37 and my
reading score is 34 what does this mean reading score of 34 shows that the
contribution of speaking to reading can be really really profound because the
only question you do in speaking which has impact on reading is read
aloud since I have only done speaking and I have scored 34 in reading it means
that depending on the length of the text my score can be up to 34 as well it can
go perhaps higher than this and because in the last test I had scored 30
it can be lower than this as well therefore what you need to remember is
if you think you're struggling in reading you have to do really well in
read aloud section as the contribution of this section can be up to one third
of the total score another thing you can notice from this score is the
listening score as you can see on this screen my listening score is 37 how is
it possible let's think about the question types which can affect the
listening score if you look at the speaking section there are three
questions in speaking which contribute to listening they are repeat sentence
retell lecture and so short answer question as I explained in my last video
repeat sentence can contribute around 20 points and then retell lecture around
10 points and short answer questions can contribute around 7 points which has
been verified by this experiment as you can see if you add 20 plus 10 plus 7
your score will be exactly 37 that's what I got in listening now let's look at the
enabling skill score as well if you look at the enabling skills score my
fluency and pronunciation score both are 90 which means I should have good
fluency and good pronunciation for scoring higher in speaking if that is
the case then I can get 90 and if you look at the grammar score I have
already told you it's only 10 one of the reason people can cannot speak
fluently especially no-native speaker is when they tried to translate
the sentences into English or when they think too much about performing proper
structures because even for the native speakers sometimes it can be really
difficult to form a complete meaningful sentence and they'll leave the sentence
in the middle if they do this their fluency becomes low and the same thing
can happen to non-native speakers as well but if you are focusing less and
grammar and more on presenting the information and if you ignore some of
the minor mistakes of grammar you can speak more fluently when I speak
sometimes I make grammatical mistakes but I don't try to correct them because
I know that very few people actually notice this mistakes and even native
speakers make a lot of mistakes one recent study by BBC has shown that 80%
of the native speakers actually make a lot of grammatical mistakes while
speaking and many of these people have no idea about the grammatical accuracy
of the language the most surprising part of this exam was actually my spelling
score perhaps you know that in speaking I don't have to write anything and if I
don't like anything I don't know how the computer was able to check my spelling
this shows one more thing there is some problem with the algorithm of speaking
and because of that it is actually showing me a faulty result or maybe
there is something else that I don't know but as far as I know because I have
been doing this for a long time I can say that I should not have scored
anything in spelling because I did not a spell anywhere if there is anything
hidden that I am NOT able to understand or decode then in that case perhaps I
will have to wait more until I get that insight but for from this result only
thing that I can tell you is for some reason the computer was also trying to
assess my spelling although I did not actually write anything now written discourse
score is 10 as you can see on the screen and that score means the
computer does not analyze written discourse which means although you
shows written discourse markers when you are doing retell lecture or describe image
they do not contribute anything towards your enabling skill my score of 36 in
vocabulary shows that in speaking also the computer assesses vocabulary now
based on the score guide by Pearson what we know is all the question types
in speaking contribute towards your vocabulary score but from my experience
what I've seen is if people can not be that will in short answer questions then
their vocabulary score becomes low and of course
there are other reasons as well in fact if you don't do that well in readings
questions or in writing question in those cases as well this happens but
because last time also we had done the same experiment and in that exam we had
completely skipped the short answer question to see its impact on the
overall score and at that time the vocabulary score was very low and comparing
that result with this one we can say with confidence that short answer
question has a huge impact over your vocabulary score as well so overall
based on this experiment what we can say is speaking is a really important
question if you are not that good in speaking you cannot score well in
listening and reading both as you can see both listening and reading get
almost 1/3 of the total score for that section from speaking therefore you
should learn how to do speaking properly and remember if you're only focusing on
the speaking part and only thinking about the factors that can affect your
fluency in pronunciation and you might be compromising your listening and reading
score therefore make sure that you are learning the right strategies when
you're using certain tricks if you are not sure how to do that we are running
online classes where we make sure the students understand these things and we
also provide them feedback and you can check the deals about these classes in
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have about the scoring criteria or the exam evaluation system and in our next
video I'll be telling you how writing affects the score in reading because in
the next mock test I'll only be doing writing and also you might score along
with the detailed breakdown of the communicative skills as well as enabling
skills until our next video have a lovely time and I'll see you soon