Speaking & Writing · Reading · Listening
PTE Academic practice test
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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The format we run on
- Part 1 — Speaking & Writing
- 76–84 minutes
- Part 2 — Reading
- 23–30 minutes
- Part 3 — Listening
- 31–39 minutes
- Form length
- Varies by the form drawn, as the real test does
Reported as10–90, Global Scale of English
Format checked against Pearson on .
What you get, part by part
Written for this product, never copied from a board or a book, and never a paper you have already sat.
Speaking
All seven spoken tasks, each on its own clock and each on Pearson’s own timings: Read Aloud, Repeat Sentence, Describe Image, Re-tell Lecture, Answer Short Question, and the two Pearson added in August 2025 — Respond to a Situation and Summarize Group Discussion. Read Aloud and Repeat Sentence are measured rather than judged: we know exactly which words you were given, so the feedback names the ones you dropped.
Writing
Summarize Written Text and the essay, marked on the traits PTE marks them on rather than on a generic rubric.
Reading
Paced at about two minutes an item. Pearson publishes Part 2 as 23–30 minutes and no item count — there is no single published rate, and we say so instead of inventing one.
Listening
Timed by the recording, with the item types that carry marks into more than one skill — including Write from Dictation, marked a point per correct word the way Pearson marks it, and Select Missing Word, where the recording stops and you choose what completed it.
The Speaking clock, item by item
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 ten seconds, and that used to break us
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.
Enough to judge it
- One section practice a day
- One full timed mock of your free exam every 30 days, the first straight away
- Four writing and four speaking evaluations a month
- The explanation and the proving line for every answer
- Your scores and progress over time
- Sit a paper from your last 7 days again, as that day's practice
- No card, no expiry, no ads
All six exams, unlimited
- Unlimited practice and marking, within fair use
- Full-length timed papers
- Which question type keeps costing you marks, across everything you have sat
- A readiness estimate, and your last 50 papers to sit again
Questions, answered
Is the PTE practice free?
Yes. One section practice a day, one full timed mock of your free exam every 30 days, and four writing and four speaking evaluations a month, with explanations and evidence throughout. No card and no expiry.
Does it use the real PTE answer windows?
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.
Are these real past PTE papers?
No. Every item is written for this product, so nothing is reproduced from Pearson, no answer key is published for the form you sit, and you never meet the same one twice.
How accurate is the score?
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.
Is there a full PTE mock test?
Yes, and it runs in the real order: Speaking and Writing first, then Reading, then Listening. That order matters more than it sounds. PTE opens with the microphone, and a candidate who has only rehearsed speaking last has never practised the part that actually happens - talking to a machine cold, first thing.
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