Hello everyone Nimisha here from Englishfirm Sydney.
Back with another video of PTE component. Hope all of you are practicing well
so today. We'll be discussing about one of the less important components of pte
which is answer short question. So answer short question is the task which is your last component
in speaking and this is a task where they ask you a question and you have to give a one word answer.
You don't have to say a sentence here just few words would be sufficient. One words two words or
just say three words maximum. So it's mostly your general knowledge or vocabulary based questions.
But if you do not know the answer to this question as well please do not keep silent.
As we have discussed in our speaking components if you have not watched it please make sure you go
through our PTE tutorials playlist in our youtube channel. You can watch other components as well.
So as we have already discussed in the other speaking components the most important aspect
of speaking is your fluency and pronunciation. So even if you do not know the answer to this
question please do not keep silent give an answer right or wrong doesn't matter just give an answer.
So as we do for every other component let's see how important this question is by looking
at the PTE score distribution chart. Let's go ahead i'll start sharing my screen with you.
All right so here we have our PTE score distribution chart where i have mentioned
this many times in the other videos please have a look at this table this is really important
for you. You can use it for reference. You can use it for every component of PTE because
here we have all the 20 types of questions in PTE arranged according to total marks from highest
to lowest so you can clearly see what is important and what is less important. The questions which
are on top are clearly more important than the ones which are at the bottom. So the item that
we are discussing today is answer short question which is over here as we can see in the yellow
block the third block which is relatively less important compared to all the other items on top.
So if we can just count it we can see it is, I think 13. Yes this is the 13th important question
out of the 20 items in PTE. It has a total of 9 marks out of 90 and this is an item
in your speaking module where you get 10 to 12 questions of answer short question .You get 10
to 12 different questions under the same item. Average number of questions is 10. This is the
point system. You don't have to worry about that we'll discuss about it later in the detail part
and as we have already noticed even though this task is in your speaking module you have to listen
to an audio first because in the audio they ask you a question so as long as you listen to an
audio you should you're supposed to get points in your listening module as well and as you can
see even though this is a task which is in your speaking module out of the 9 points, it is just
giving 2.5 points to your speaking part it doesn't give points to writing or reading. More points 6.6
points are given to your listening module so you need to understand this guys, if you are
students who are aiming for like 6 each or 6.5 each less than 7 each this is not an important
component for you. But still of course try to do everything as perfectly as you could
but if you're targeting for like band 7 or band 8, 65 out of 90 or 79 out of 90
please make sure you try to do this question as well as perfectly as you could. Even though
it doesn't give much points to speaking it is contributing 6.6 points to your listening module,
so especially students start targeting for 79 plus, the 6.6 points is really important as well
even the 2 points for speaking. So this task is contributing more points to your listening module
and 2.5 points for your speaking module because you have to listen to the audio and then give a
one word answer or few words answer. Now how does it give points to speaking and listening. Now it
is giving less points to your speaking because your points which is given to your speaking points
speaking part is only based on your fluency and pronunciation that means as long as you give the
answer whether it is right or wrong, if you speak you could still get this 2.5. 2.5 points for your
speaking part which is the reason why i'm saying if you do not know the answer to the question
please do not keep silent give an answer anyway. Now the points which is given to your listening
part 6.6 points. This depends on the answer that you're giving if your answer is correct,
if your answer is wrong you will not be getting any points for your listening part
if your answer is wrong you'll be getting points only for your speaking part. Even
though your answer is wrong you can get points for your speaking but if your answer is correct
you can get the points for your listening part as well but better than getting 0 for both speaking
and listening. Just give an answer so you get some points for your speaking module at least.So if you
give the correct answer if you give the correct vocabulary of order asking you will be getting
2.5 for speaking as well as 6.6 for your listening module as far now let's see how the question looks
Okay so as we have already mentioned this is the fifth item in your speaking module in speaking.
You have five components: read aloud, repeat sentence, describe image and retell lecture.
Please watch those videos as well. We have already created them before they are more
important than this task and you will understand this also better if you watch that first.
Now answer short question is the fifth item in speaking where you will be listening to an audio
this audio is a question to you. Just one sentence question you just have to give a one word answer
or few words answer so this is the instruction you hear a short question and then the recording
status box will change the recording start your answer as soon as this happens if you wait for
more than three seconds recording will stop and the item status will change to complete it
which means that you have lost your chance to give your answer this is a minor part of pt but
very crucial many people ignore this they are not bothered about this but it's a very important task
where in every task of speaking the computer shows you the recording status part which you
can see on the right side of the screen you can see recorded answer current state is recording
so for every task of speaking they give you a specific time to prepare yourself and the
computer starts a recorder only when you see the blue colour bar over here so as soon as you see
the first blue bar you have to start speaking and in certain questions specifically your read aloud
describe image and read a lecture there is a beep to notify you that the recording is going to begin
but in questions like your repeat sentence and answer short question please do not wait for
a beep because these questions doesn't have a beep so if you keep on waiting for a beep you
might lose your chance to answer because it might have already started the recording and you might
be still waiting for the beep so please don't wait for the beep i would suggest not waiting
for the beep for any question in speaking for all the tasks of speaking please start your answer
as soon as you see the first blue colour bar in the recording status bar why i'm saying the
first blue colour bar is because as you can see here the computer also has a rule if it already
started the recorder and if it doesn't hear anything for three seconds or more it will stop
the recorder automatically so even if you answer after the three seconds the computer is not going
to record you that is the reason why you have to answer immediately as soon as you see the blue bar
not before it not too late as well so answer with the first blue bar don't wait for the b
all right now coming back to the number of items you'll be getting 10 to 12 questions
and according to the point system point system is not your marks out of 90 point it carries one
point per question and that one point is purely based on your vocabulary not grammar not sentence
structure none of those just vocabulary there is no negative marking which is the reason why even
if you do not know the answer to a question please give an answer even if it's wrong there's no harm
and as long as you answer as long as your voice is recorded the computer will still
give you points for your speaking part and as we have already seen in this core distribution
chart this item is contributing points to both your listening and speaking module now
all right so now the trick here is if you like improve your general knowledge and your vocabulary
skills and the best thing to do is make sure you go through all the repeated questions from
the exam as much as you could because this is one of the questions in pt which are highly repeated
the questions which have appeared before you have a very good chance of getting them again
so make sure you go through this list of repeated questions that is close to 700, 800 questions
try to go through minimum 50 questions in a day so you can finish within around
one month time all right now in this task when you listen to the question listen
very carefully because they'll ask you very simple questions but the sentence structure
in which they ask you the question could be a bit tricky or complicated to confuse you
so listen carefully your answers will be mostly it'll be mostly simple questions you get 10 to
12 of them most of them will be simple but even if you do not know the answer just give an answer
and when i say just give an answer you can either say a wrong answer or say don't know or the best
thing to do here is repeat a keyword from the question itself so let's do a couple of them tan
if you don't feel like eating what do we say you don't have
the correct answer is appetite you don't have to say the correct answer is you just have to
say one word appetite but let's say you do not remember the word appetite immediately
immediately because here after the audio of the question there is certainly
a small gap of three seconds so sometimes we will not our brain won't work immediately we won't
remember the word immediately in that case also please answer as soon as you
see the blue bar but if you do not know the correct answer either say don't know
or in this particular task you can actually say hunger you don't have hunger to say hunger
but the correct vocabulary for this particular question is appetite let's do another one nine
what object would you use to climb up to the roof of the simple the house answer is ladder
you just have to say one word ladder you don't have to say we use a ladder to climb up to the
roof of the house you don't have to say a complete sentence here it's only one word you just have to
say ladder for some questions there are different answers uh you don't have to worry about that all
the correct answers will be accepted uh preferably stick to the most common word right seven
what do we call the first meal of the day
breakfast okay so that's another answer and one issue that i've seen many students face in this
question is even if they say the correct answer because of their lack of pronunciation clarity
the computer doesn't understand what you're saying even if you say the correct answer
so make sure you speak loud and clear and many students have a tendency of
mumbling or they they say the answer asks if they are asking the computer so for this one the answer
is break fast so don't say breakfast don't say breakfast do not sound doubtful speak confident
loud and clear even if your answer is wrong speak confidently you should be saying breakfast just
one word answer as if you are teaching the computer all right one more last one eight
what word is used for someone who watches a sports event spectator right so this is
a very simple task answer short question. I know it won't take much time to prepare.
Even best thing to do is try to go through all the questions which have already appeared in the exam,
the repeated questions and of course if you do not know the answer also just give a one word
answer and as i said even though this is not an important component for students aiming for
band 6 or 6.5, for students aiming for 7 or 8 please make sure you practice this component as
well. Even though it looks really simple it can give you 6 point. 6 points for your listening and
2.5 points for your speaking part. So for student saving for 79 even 1 point is really important. So
try to practice this question as well. So that's pretty much it for your answer short question.
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