different way than another exams some of the questions is you are quite difficult
like multiple-choice questions or highlight correct summary are not
important questions but instead there are other questions which you may have
found quite easy are very important in this video we are going to discuss the
scoring of PTE how you get points for different question types and how that
can help you to form strategies for your test let's get it started if you're new
to this channel my name is Roman I'm the founder of Roman PTE and in this video
I'm going to talk about so the important things about PTE scoring criteria
starting from speaking I will tell you the scoring for every question type how
many points do you get for each question time for example if you are doing Readaloud
about how many points you get for speaking and how many points you get for
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The first question that we are going to discuss is speaking in speaking
we get five different types of questions and speaking is the only section in your
exam which is not affected by any other section but is speaking can affect your
score in reading as well as in listening so the most important question in
speaking is repeat sentence which carries 32 points now this is an estimated
scoring criteria and the actual score might be a little different but this
will help you to get an idea about how the scoring is done in the actual test
after each sentence the other important question is read aloud which carries 22
points after repeat sentence the next important question is read aloud which carries 22
points after readloud the next question is describe image in describe image as long as the
fluency and pronunciation are good and the content is relevant you will get
full score so if you find the describe image more difficult than other questions
just use this trick try to read what you see on the image and then make sure
that you can speak fluently and clearly for the pronunciation part you have to
keep in mind stress intonation and rhythm and for this if you can vary your
tone when you're speaking and if you can read in blocks it will help you to get
this score you desire Retell lecture is the next important
question in speaking but it carries all the 11 points you can see that it
carries half the point read aloud or describe image carries that's why
do not I spend too much time practicing this question but be familiar with the
question type most of the questions are retell lecture repeat all the time and
retell lecture questions might also come in summarize spoken text and vice versa
so when you're practicing retell lecture lecture it can be a good idea to
practice summarize the spoken text at the same time or when you are practicing
summarize the spoken text and you have written in your answer try to retell
them as a lecture as well that way you'll be good at both the sections now
the last question type here is short answer questions these questions are not
so important and they carry only three point towards the speaking so you can
see here if you are struggling in a speaking then you must focus more on
repeat sentence followed by readaloud and describe image Retell lecture and
answer short questions are not so much important for speaking but since
this is an integrated test you also have to remember that these questions
contribute a score towards other sections as well that's why you have to
think about the important and influence of these questions and
other sections especially listening some of these less important questions like
retell lecture and answer short questions are relatively more important for listening
the next question type that we are going to discuss is writing now a traditional
wisdom in writing is that essay questions are very important because in
the other test like IELTS we have been told that if we don't write essays as well
then we don't get the point surprisingly in PTE essay is not a very important
question that is the reason why when some people ask me like if I do only
writing classes then I tell them no because writing isn't an integrated test
and if the score comes from other question types as well which are asked
in listening and in reading so the most important question in writing actually
is dictation which contributes 27 points to your writing score that's why you
need to be very good at dictation in order to improve your score and
dictation make sure that your sentence starts with the capital letter and ends
with a full stop and make sure that it can spell the word correctly one of the
problems people face while the dictation is homophone these are the words which
sound similar but are spelled differently that's the reason why you
always have to think about the context and make appropriate choices so this
might be surprising for some of you that dictation actually is more important
question than a essay writing but remember dictation definitely is more important
question and you should practice more dictation another important thing about
dictation is you get a lot of repetition in dictation and if you are one of our
enrolled students you'll find that the questions we have on the portal 150
selected dictation questions are the questions you'll get in your tests most
of the times so yes one way of improving your dictation is by practicing a lot
and the other way is by doing these questions and making sure that you know
how to spell each and every word in the list the next important question in
writing is reading and writing fill in the blanks which contributes 22 points
this is a special type of question from my perspective the reason for that is
this question is very confusing and very difficult as well that is the reason why
I often focus on this question type in the class as well as for our online
students if you are not that good in this question it becomes extremely
difficult to score in writing so make sure that you have gone through all the
questions we have on the portal there are around hundred and fifty questions
if you go through these questions it will be more than enough but let's say
if you are not an enrolled student in that case you can simply practice
as many reading and writing in the blanks questions as possible from the sources you are using
for your preparation but at the same time make sure that you remember the
meaning of the words that you see in the option and there are three things you
have to practice when you are doing reading and writing fill in the blanks
versus AWL which is stands for academic word list the second one is academic
phrases just search for academic phrases in Google you'll find it freely on
different websites and the next one but it should be practicing or is
prepositional phrases now prepositional phrases are word and preposition
combination in English certain words take only certain types of preposition
and this is often asked in your exam so make sure that you have done this for the
test summarize spoken text is the third important type of question which carries
12 points this question comes in listening now you can see that as I told
you writing is assessed not just in writing but also in reading and
listening as well dictation and summarize spoken text are listening
question whereas this reading and writing fill in the blanks comes in
reading now the next question type that you should be focusing on is a essays so as I
said essay is not the most important type of question unlike in other English
tests so make sure that you know how to write essays there are three types of essays
you are often asked in the exam they are agree or disagree essay advantage and
disadvantage essay and problem and solution essay sometimes they ask a
mixed type of essay where they ask agree disagree with problem solution and
so on so make sure that you are familiar with all essays and now essay questions also
repeat all the time so familiarize yourself with the different topics and
answer the questions write them make sure you can do it within 20 minutes and
get feedback for your performance so that you know that you are doing the
right thing once you think and once you know that
you are able to write good essays maybe not a perfect one but you can at least
write a good essay that's the time for you stop the next one is summarize written
text summarize written text carries 10 points these questions come
in writing so these are the only two questions which come in writing essay
and summarize written text summarize written text you just have to grab the
ideas from the passage and then write them in your answer
for this you can simply get two or three ideas from the passage as it is connect
them with the linking words and make small changes that way you will not be
making that many mistakes and still get the score but in order to find out
whether you did it in the right way or not get in touch with us the last
question type is fill in the blanks and this is the fill in the blanks and
listening here it is very important for you to spell the word correctly and the
word should be in the correct grammatical form be careful about singular
and plural when you are doing fill in the blanks and also read about homophones
so as I said earlier as well the homophones are really important for
your test you need to learn homophones for dictation and fill in the blanks
questions because often you hear one thing but when you try to write that you
do not make any sense in the context and then you start wondering or you just end up
writing the same thing sometimes if you do not know that there is another
word with the same pronunciation you may not even think about it
so for writing questions if there are three things that I think you should be
thinking about they are make sure you know about the academic word list go
through the homophones and improve your spelling if you are careful about
these three things of course 100% your writing score will improve now the next
one is reading reading is assessed in almost every section it is assessed in
speaking it is a assessed in writing it is of course assessed in reading and then
it is assessed in listening as well and is speaking the questions like read
aloud are very important for your reading score read aloud contributes 23
points many students do not realize the importance of read aloud and
spend less time practicing questions there because of that in the exam they
score less and other confusion here is people think that if they score 90
speaking that means they are perfect in speaking they are not making any mistake
there but you have to remember this even if you're scoring 90 in speaking you may
have been making mistakes in read aloud which is reducing your score so
it's really important that you know about those mistakes and correct
them in time so that you don't waste your time and energy repeating the same
mistake then the next important question type for reading is reading and writing
fill in the blanks which carries 23 points and you can see that read aloud
and reading and writing fill in the blanks both are equally important and
for your information read aloud comes in is speaking and reading and
writing fill in the blanks this comes in reading
the third important type of question is filling the blanks which carries 15
points it comes in reading and it does not affect any other section the fourth
important type of question is summarize written text this question comes in
writing now you have already seen that this question is an important question
for writing as it is an important question for reading and contributes
the same score towards both writing and reading around 10 points and then the
next question type is is important here is highlight incorrect words in this
question type you are simply supposed to click on the word which are wrong but
remember this question has negative marking so be careful not to be careful
and don't click on the words which you are not confident of otherwise you might
lose the score you have already caught three other paragraph is the next
important question type but it carries seven points now one more thing many
students find reorder paragraph very confusing and even after practicing a
lot they still complain that they can't answer the question perfectly now if you
look at the scoring criteria you can easily see that the reorder paragraph does
not carry that many points it's just carries seven points so from my
perspective if you can get at least more than 50% of the questions right most of
the times then you are almost ready for your test of course that also means that
you are good in the other questions that I mentioned before this multiple choice
questions of both types single right answer and multiple right answers are
not important do not waste too much time in them because together they
contribute only four points towards your reading so this is one of the big
difference between IELTS and PTE in IELTS these questions
multiple choice questions are important they carry one point towards the forty
points you are given for that particular section in IELTS which is later on
converted to a nine-banded score but here they carry just four points out of
90 and you can clearly see that they are not as important as the other
questions I mentioned here both multiple-choice questions come in
reading so in reading section proper in reading section proper you get
multiple-choice questions of two types then reorder paragraph then reading and
writing fill in the blanks and fill in the blanks these are the five questions
you get in reading and rest of the questions read aloud you get in speaking
summarize written text you get in writing and highlight incorrect words
you get in listening
and one more thing which I have not written here is highlight correct
summary I'm sorry about that I forgot to write it here highlight correct summary is
another question that also contributes to reading and this contributes around
2 points only so keep that in mind as well now the next section is listening
listening three important questions are repeat sentence dictation and summarize
spoken text repeat sentence carries 20 points dictation carries 20 points and
summarize spoken text carries 13 points repeat sentence comes in a
speaking dictation comes in listening summarize the spoken text also comes in
listening then the retell lecture is another important question which gives
you 10 points towards your listening to score as I told you in the beginning
of this video Retell lecture is not a really important question for speaking
if we compare it with the other question types asked in speaking but for
listening it becomes one important question as you get around 10 points
from this question so this one comes in is speaking followed by Retell lecture we
have highlight incorrect words and fill in the blanks both of which are
important questions and carry 8 and 7 points now the rest of the
questions that I have written in gray here like the multiple choice question
multiple right answer highlight correct summary multiple choice questions single
right answer and select missing words all of them are not so important for
your test and you can see that together they carry on the six points so even if
you miss all of them you can still get 84 out of 90 and that's why my
suggestion is when you are doing these questions try your best to get the
answer but if you are not sure what is the answer don't waste too much time
thinking about it because you might miss out the important questions especially
dictation because this is the question that you get at the end of the test so
if you miss dictation you know that you are missing 20 points and let's say that
you had four questions missing one question means you are missing five
points and after that it becomes very difficult to get your desired score
answer short questions is one interesting type of question here in
speaking it carries only three points but in listening it carries six points
so competitive it's more important in listening as I told you in the beginning
of the video now based on everything I told you here you may have felt a little
confused here and that's quite understandable
this test is quite jumbled up in terms of how it is integrated one
section has impact on the other the other section has impact on the other
and it becomes really difficult to keep track of this so what I suggest is was
this video multiple times and pay attention to those questions was carry
more points in summary the questions which are important are you have to be
very good at write from dictation you have to be very good at repeat sentence
you have to be