In my last video I discussed how the speaking section can affect your
performance in reading listening and speaking and how the different sections
in PTE interact with each other. In this video I'll be talking about how the
writing section effects writing score as well as your reading score based on my
recent mock test experiment while reading the summarise written text
questions too many times is not going to improve your writing and reading score
both significantly and why spelling does not play an important role in the
writing section itself. If you want to find answers to these questions please
continue watching until the end because some of these questions will be clear
only when I will summarize all the things I mentioned in this video at the
end of the video. Let's get it started. if you're new to this channel my name is
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about the writing section how writing section is evaluated how it contributes
to your writing score, your overall score and how it affects your
reading performance so if you have been watching our recent uploads then you may
have noticed that a couple of weeks ago I uploaded a video about the scoring
criteria for PTE this was based on my experiments, observations and
experience of teaching PTE and appearing in the tests seven times and scoring
90 in each of these attempts based on that I told you how different
sections are evaluated which was an estimated its scoring criteria this was
not based on Pearson's scoring guide which only tell about how many points
you get per question but does not tell anything about how the integration
between different sections work in PTE now if you have not watched that video
you can just click on the link to above and you'll be able to watch it now
and then after that in the next video I told you how the speaking section
affects reading and listening score again if you want to watch the video you
can find a link in the description or you can just click on the link above in
this video I'll be talking about how the writing section affects your writing score
as well as your reading score this is based on the Mock Test I did a few days
ago in which I only attempted the writing section I skipped all the
questions now if you look at this score I am showing on the screen right now
you'll notice two interesting things first my writing score is only 25
because I only attempted writing and this tells us a lot of things which I will be
discussing just in a few minutes and the second thing is and the second thing
is if you look at my listening is further than you can see my listening score is
11 and that is quite interesting and I will tell you how I got 11 in listening
although I did not do anything related to listening in this test but you'll
have to watch this video until the end okay how about the writing section score
you can see that in writing I have score 25 what could be the reason for this if
you again refer to the video I uploaded a couple of days ago then you perhaps
notice there that I told you essays contributes around 10 11 or 12 points
towards your total score and summary also around similar points then if you
combine them together then you will get around 24 25 and that's exactly the
score I got in my test 25 in writing so what it shows is that you get only around
20 to 25 points by doing the writing section out of 90 in other words
you can see that writing section itself is not that important for your overall
score in writing not just that if you look at my over on the score then you
can see it's only 12 which also means that the contribution of writing towards
overall score is less than speaking if you watch my last video perhaps you
would notice that in that test as well I had attempted only speaking but that
time my overall score was much better than this so there are two important
things we can learn from this experiment the first is the contribution of writing
towards overall score is much lower than other sections and second thing is if
you do only the writing section and let's say you're very good in summarize
written text and essays and even then you can score only around 200 25 points and if you
are struggling for getting 65 or 79 you need to focus on other
questions which are more important another interesting thing that I noticed
after doing this experiment is that in reading I was supposed to get some score
based on my summarize written text performance but you can see that in
reading it so intent which simply means in Pearson stems there is not enough
data to analyze my performance which means the computer did not have enough
data to say how much the score in reading should I get based on this you can see
that the contribution of summarize written text to reading is less as compared
to the contribution of reading questions to writing and if you look at
the grammar and vocabulary score you can see that the grammar is 47 in the
vocabulary is 66 what does it tell us what it tells us is the vocabulary score mostly
comes from our writing and our grammar almost half of the points we get in
grammar is from writing now you might be wondering then where do we get the other
half for grammar and that I will explain when I will do the reading video for
fluency and pronunciation of course are 10 and 10 which means there was no data
about them and that's understandable and the spelling this call is 38 now if you
look at the spelling score you will again notice one important thing we
were supposed to get 90 in spelling but I have got only 38 now when
I was doing this summarize written text and essay during the mock test I had
checked the spelling and everything I wrote there I double-checked that on
Microsoft Word as well I copy my answers and paste it in Microsoft Word just to
make sure that I had not overlooked any spelling which can happen because of the
typing errors are human errors and then I could not find any problems in my
spelling there but despite that my score in spelling is only 30 it means that the
bulk of the score in spelling actually comes from listening now which questions
in listening are important for that how should you do those questions that I
cannot explain and I will do another experiment by attempting only the
listening section in the mock test now if you look at the written discourse
it's 90 and often my students get 90 in written discourse and then after that
they come to me and ask me like why did I get 90 in written discourse
and what is it so about written discourse this written
discourse means the expressions we use to move from one topic to another topic
or to create smooth transition between our ideas some of the linking words we
use for example however therefore these are also examples of written discourse
but there are other examples of written discourse as
well those of you who are using the template you will most of the times
get 90 out of 90 because we have designed the template in that way I have
put my experience of 14 years in designing this template because of which
almost all of our students tell us that when they use the template they find it
really easy to write their answers they find it really easy to give answers in
a speaking and not just that they get excellent score as well because we know
how to do this we know what are the factors which will influence your
overall performance score and how to tackle those points by making sure
that the template contains all the important factors which would be
evaluated now the interesting thing that I was talking about was listening score
of 11 I did not attempt anything related to listening but still is for 11 in
listening what would be the reason actually the interesting thing here is
when we were skipping the questions and when I had these short answer questions part
then one of my students entered my room and then we started discussing different
things and the questions were just playing on the background so he was
answering those questions and when he was answering wrong I was correcting
them and so my score in listening came out to be 11 although in speaking I
haven't got anything and there is one more thing this tells us that is first
short answers question can contribute a lot of points towards listening as you can
see here it's 11 and then second thing is as I have told you in other videos as
well if you think your answer is wrong in short answer questions you can change them
this is something mentioned in Pearson official guide as well you can
change your answer as many times as you want without any penalty because your
fluency and pronunciation are not tested in short answer questions so if you are
not sure about your answer or if you suddenly realize that your answer is wrong
then it can change it and give another appropriate answer now overall from this
experiment what i have learned is or what i think you should learn is writing
section itself is not that important why it is not important because essay and
summary only contribute around 25 points towards your writing score
traditionally we have learned that essay a very important task in writing and by
assessing our essay our writing can be evaluated and this is because of the test
like TOEFL and IELTS where essays contribute more points than any other
questions in writing but in PTE interesting it is not the case although
essay is an important question in PTE is not the most important question
for your information the most important questions in writing are
actually dictation and reading and writing fill in the blanks so anyone who
is struggling and writing you must focus on these two question types more than on
essays and summarize written text for Essays and summarize written text you have to use
the templates we have provided you and make sure that you are feeling those
templates in the right way focusing and essential areas that we have told you in
the class now those of you who are not enroll in our courses you can simply
visit our blog and you will find some interesting and important points which
can help you to write good essays if you're interested in our templates
and what to learn how to write essays and summaries using the tips and
tricks without spending too much time on writing section itself then you can
enroll in one of our online courses where we will make sure that you learn
all of these tips and tricks as well as you also get feedback on your
performance before you sit for the next test now of course you may have had many
questions about what I told you in this video if you have any confusion please
write in the comments as usual I will try to answer as many questions as I can
and if there are any specific requests you have please write in the comments
again if I find those requests valid
I'll definitely respond to them as well on to my next video have a good time
and I'll see you soon