Speaking & Writing · Reading · Listening
PTE scores one item against several skills at once, and its answer windows are shorter than any other test here — one of them is ten seconds. Both of those are the whole difficulty of the exam, so both are reproduced rather than smoothed over.
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Reported as10–90, Global Scale of English
Generated for your attempt, every attempt. Nothing here is a stored paper being handed round.
Describe Image, Re-tell Lecture and Answer Short Question, each on its own clock. Read Aloud and Repeat Sentence feed the same pronunciation and oral fluency scoring.
Summarize Written Text and the essay, marked on the traits PTE marks them on rather than on a generic rubric.
Paced at about two minutes an item, because Part 2 runs 29–30 minutes across 13–18 items depending on the form — there is no single published rate, and we say so instead of inventing one.
Timed by the recording, with the item types that carry marks into more than one skill.
Taken from the published format and held to it. A clock that is generous by thirty seconds trains a habit that costs marks on the day.
| Task | Prepare | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Describe Image | 25 s | 40 s |
| Re-tell Lecture | 10 s | 40 s |
| Answer Short Question | 3 s | 10 s |
Answer Short Question is answered in about ten seconds with a word or a phrase — “A dictionary.” A hard 30-second floor once rejected those answers as too short, so a candidate who did the task exactly right had their answer thrown away. Below a task's minimum you are now asked whether to score it anyway; you are never refused.
Yes. One section practice a day plus two writing and two speaking evaluations a month, with explanations and evidence throughout. No card and no expiry.
Yes. Describe Image gives 25 seconds to prepare and 40 to speak, Re-tell Lecture gives 10 and 40, and Answer Short Question gives about 3 and 10. Those are the published figures, not one pair of numbers reused.
No. Every item is generated for your attempt, so nothing is reproduced from Pearson and no answer key exists for the form you sit.
It is a practice estimate and labelled as one on every result. It shows the reasoning so you can check it. It is not an official Pearson score.
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