hi guys this is Moni from PTE magic and firstly I just wanted to say thank
you to everyone who have been following my channel and were able to successfully
implement the tips and tricks and got desires goals also thank you to those
who have been commenting on my videos letting me know that they passed the
target score
I really appreciate it and it really means a lot to me
due to my busy schedule sometimes I just cannot find enough time to respond to
everyone's our emails and messages and today's video will be an opportunity for
me to redeem myself so it will be a Q&A session where I'll give you answers to
the most frequent questions that come out on my videos so let's get started
so the first question is from Jopan hi Moni thanks for your video very
helpful especially for me who never took the PTE test before I have a question
about the speaking speed I know speed is not the most important in this fluency
but it does affect it a lot in your video you speak roughly three words per
second I'd like to know how slow of the speaking will affect the speaking score
my current speed is about 2.6 words per second I'd like to know if I need to try
to speed up if I'm aiming for 79 in speaking it's a really good question
because basically fluency is not just about speaking fast it's also as I said
in my previous video it's about flow so in here she mentioned about 2.6
seconds and also my speed is around 3 seconds so according to a lot of
research that I found related to the PTE test, a normal native speaker can take up to
180 words per minute which means that for the average read aloud question
which contains 60 words we should able to speak for 24 seconds which means that
we have to speak three words per 1 seconds
but then even if you speak too fast but you have many unnecessary pauses then
your fluency is still not good enough
hi Moni is it necessary to repeat answer
like two times in answer short questions
so yeah you probably saw some videos on
how I got 90 and speaking like my very first video on YouTube about how I got
90 in PTE speaking in mock test a and I did repeat some answers twice
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and the thing is it is not compulsory I mean I just repeated just in case the first time it
wasn't recorded properly but if you're sure that it was recorded fine then
you don't really need to
dear Moni I'm struggling a lot in speaking
the main problem is my pronunciation because I always got pronunciation
between 30 to 45 can you please give me a
like what should I do must once is good some I always got between 80 to 90 in
fluency I need 79 plus I'm getting aid in reading and writing but speaking and
listening is always between 70 and 76 I'm very fed up because I get so many
exams and getting same results again and again so could you please help me
pronunciation is probably one of the main concern that many PTE aspirants have
been you know experiencing and as I said in my previous video, fluency obviously
is more important however if your pronunciation is not good enough then
computer cannot catch your content
from my own experience I noticed that many
people got low score in pronunciation even though their pronunciation is not too bad so
it might be caused by many factors like the way you put your microphone and also
your pitch or your pace as well as many fluency is too high it may mean that you
spoke too fast and you're probably missing or like skipping middle
syllables or ending sounds so try to record different audios and show it to
your friends or like someone else and ask them if they can't understand what
you're actually speaking then if your pronunciation is easy to understand then
it would be good enough
hi Moni some people say that female voice
sometimes to high tone does the computer cannot recognize me my voice very good
what is your opinion? should I try to speak in a warmer tone my pronunciation mark is
really low
it's a very good question so I've noticed that some of my students
who are from Japan or Korea who have very high pitch after switching to
like deeper voice they were able to improve their scores
do you hear
anything I hear a woman's voice
so it might be a
good thing to try to change if you believe that the pronunciation is not too bad
does speaking for 33 34 seconds in describe image and retell lecture effect
oral fluency marks significantly this question is more about the content
because as you know speaking is based on oral fluency
pronunciation and content like the better content you can deliver the
better your scores will be
hi Moni I got 89 oral fluency
at mock exam but in the real exam I have got 51 which is too low for me do you
think that could be because of the location of microphone is that from
something else
I also witnessed few of cases like this where a student got high
score in mock tests and then in the real test they got a lower score okay so it
might be also due to questions yeah the questions difficulties you might not
have troubles with the questions in the mock test but when you go to the real test you
might have sentences in read aloud containing difficult words the one that
hard to pronounce and also repeat sentence might be longer and more difficult
another reason might be psychological factor so maybe at home
you feel more comfortable and you know you feel more relaxed
but as you said
your microphone can also play certain roles so make sure that you check your
microphone until you can hear your voice clearly
my question is that if my speed
of speech is normal in read aloud and it's fast in describe image then will I
lose fluency marks it should be fine but it really depends on how different are
the speeds, if you speak too fast in real love but too slow into our image then
again it's not really acceptable for fluently try to keep the same speed for
both of them but for repeat sentence it might be a bit slower
hi moni I'm struggling in listening and writing could you please help me in this
because I have attempted PTE exam almost 10 times but my school is not
improving my aim is to get 79 in all
you need to know where your listening and
writing skills are coming from okay especially you need to look at the tasks
that will contribute to both listening and writing which are firstly summarized
spoken text secondly fill in the blanks and thirdly dictation write from dictation
if you're not getting your desire scores in listening and writing it means that you
have troubles with those three sections so try to work on those tasks and
check your spelling and your grammar carefully as well as include more
keywords when you do summarize spoken text
Moni, I have a question in the
repeat sentence is it required to follow the tone of the speaker when we speak in
repeat sentence or we can just speak in monotone as well
second question
does the pronunciations score come from read aloud in the score report
I noticed that pronunciation is important in a lot but the score goes to
reading section and only oral fluency is evaluated in read aloud
is that true?
is that true
to answer the first question about repeat sentence you don't really need to
follow this the tone of the speaker because it might even distract you okay
but sometimes I see that a lot of people imitate the tone, it really depends on
individuals but it's not compulsory to imitate the speaker's accents or like
the tone of the speaker
to answer your second question if you watched my
previous video, pronunciation is coming from all five tasks in speaking and
especially from read aloud
hi Moni as you said in write from dictation
can we write both the plural and singular form of words if not sure I
learned somewhere that any extra words in write from dictation do not count in
negative marking
instead of reading somewhere we need to refer back to the
score guide so let's have a look at the score guide
in the score guide it only
says that you get one point for each correctly spell what it doesn't mention
anything about negative marking and about grammar which means that you might
be allowed to you know input additional words but from my own perspective I
don't think you should do it too often maybe once or twice is okay but not too too ofter
dear moni I used the position above the nose as you showed in your video but
I'm struggling to get 79 plus always ends up on 75 to 78 now I really
think is not working for me please suggest me something my natural voice is loud
guys you should know that just because you're speaking is not
seventy-nine yet it's not necessary due to microphone it's also because of
your pronunciation and fluency and maybe because of your content
look at your
content in describing in retell lecture and also see how you do in repeat sentence
if you need to practice more repeat sentences
a few months ago I appear for
the IELTS test and scored 7.5 in speaking but yesterday when I
gave Scored test A for PTE academic I got a terrible score in speaking can you
suggest what might have gone wrong
first of all your IELTS speaking is very good
7.5 is quite good for PTE because you can achieve 79 easily and but you
need to remember that there are different approaches for PTE and IELTS
so you can't speak the same way as when you speaking in IELTS in PTE
and the
second thing is that I'm not sure if you've done the real test but when you
do the mock test at home you know the low score can be caused by the quality of
your microphone and also of your computer so maybe have a look again
otherwise you can send me your recordings
I would like to know if
listening blanks if I write generalise with z
instead of British spelling generalise with s would that be ok
you can go back to my videos about spelling so with the spelling it doesn't matter which one you
choose but once you pick one spelling you need to be consistent in the same
task so for example there are five different blanks in the listening fill
in the blanks then all of those would need to be in one type of spelling
either British spelling or US spelling you cannot mix them okay
again thank you guys for watching and I'm really happy that I can help so many
people around the world pass PTE or at least I have more motivation to pass
the test
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