hi guys this is Moni from PTE magic welcome back to my channel previously i've been making many
videos on PTE speaking but in today's video we're going to focus more on PTE listening
specifically i'm going to highlight the top 5 most common mistakes that people
make in pte listening we get started if you're not my subscriber yet then click
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so let's start with the first one so the first one is poor pronunciation in repeat sentence
retell lecture and answer short questions why am i mentioning speaking here you know pte
is very different from other english proficiency tests for example when you do ielts you will
be getting points for listening reading writing speaking separately right but when it comes to PTE
all the modules are linked to each other when you do pte listening you'll be getting the majority
points from speaking if you guys check out one of my old videos where i tried to do only speaking
bte and got 90 in speaking and just by getting 90 in speaking i also scored 46 in listening without
doing anything in listening so it means that the content or keywords that you deliver in repeat
sentence retell lecture and answer short questions will have a dramatic impact on your final scores
in listening just because you've got a pretty high score in speaking doesn't mean that you should not
worry about how you did those listening related tasks you mispronounce the word computer might not
be able to catch your keywords so you'll not get enough points for listening whenever you do those
listening related tasks in speaking you should make sure that you're not only just focusing
on fluency or speaking fast but also everything you say is nice and clear and easy to understand
number two is poor spelling in pte listening there are three tasks that are related to writing which
are summarized spoken text filling the blanks and writing dictations when you guys do retell lecture
you don't need to show the system how you spelled a certain word yeah when it comes to summarize spoken
context you have to actually type the word on the computer so it means that spelling will be
extremely crucial in this case you might heard the word correctly but then
you failed to write that word with correct spelling so in this case you will not score
high in this task so don't rush and try to proofread your answers every single time
number three is time management listening in pte and listening in other english proficiency tests
are quite different because not all the tasks will be equally scored in other words some tasks
will be more important and will weigh more than the other ones pte listening write from dictations
is probably the most important task and ironically it's also the last part in the entire listening
exam and since i've been teaching pte for like four years now i have written so many students
coming back to me and saying uh i missed dictation i spent way too much time on other tasks so i
missed one or two dictation questions i really don't want that to happen to you and you know
what i'm saying here is not that you should just give the entire listening to get to dictation or
you should just randomly choose answers just to not miss write from dictation but my advice to you is
that you should calculate your time and you should allocate timing to each task carefully so that you
have enough time to complete representations to manage your time more effectively i recommend you
to do mock test, mock test is the best way for you to practice time management by the way keep in
mind that the timing in Pearson official mock test is different from the real test
so they give you more time which is why i try to find mock tests that give you the
right timing so normally for each question you should only have less than two minutes
number four is not following the word count limitation in summarized spoken text in summarize
spoken text you are asked to write a summary of 50 to 70 words after listening to the lecture audio
however there are a lot of students out there who have weak listening skills might write less than
50 or maybe a bit more than 30 and there are also other students like my students who have
already mastered their note-taking skills so they tend to write maybe even more than 80
or sometimes even more than 100 but how would that affect your scores in listening let's have
a look at the official score guide from business so when you guys open pte official score guide
and go to summarize spoken text under the form you can see that you get two points if
your answer contains 50 to 70 words you get one point if it contains 40 to 49 of 71 to 100 words
and you get zero points if it contains less than 40 words or more than 100 words this is exactly
why just because you wrote something doesn't mean that you're going to get point for it writing two
less or too much might actually result in zero point for your phone and eventually zero point
for the entire task because there will be no further scoring so please guys be attentive
and check your word count carefully within the given 10 minutes
the last one is not practicing with the real question bank i know that bte is
just an english test and many of you are already confident with your english skills
and there are many students who tend to practice with whichever audios available online and even
just by watching english movies and listening to podcasts and this really great way to master
your english comprehension skills however is it the most effective way to prepare for your
bte listening if you guys already attempted the test before you know that repeat centers
and referential questions might be a bit too long and contain many difficult and academic words for
example this one once more under the pressure of economic necessity practice outstripped theory
come on seriously these kind of questions are very hard to memorize and you know
comprehension alone might not even help to produce those sentences which is why
I highly recommend you to practice with the real questions collected from the real
exam especially for those who have upcoming tests don't waste your time and study smart
okay so those were the five most common mistakes that i find when people do btn
listening you guys want to practice with the 50 question banks and score mock tests
you can also use our platform which is on pte magic practice.com in one of my next videos i'll
be sharing with you guys how one of our students was able to get 88 in his pte magic mock test
and eventually scored 88 in his real test she's very interesting but yeah thank you so much
for watching guys and if you have any questions comment below and if you're not my subscriber then
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