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PTE Academic Full Test 3

1090
75Predicted overall
+4 to target

≈ CEFR B2 · IELTS 7.5

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AI-scored

Here's your complete breakdown.

You are on track to reach the mid-60s to low-70s range, just short of your target of 79, with reading (79) and listening (71) your strongest skills and speaking (66) and writing (64) your weakest. Your core problem is not understanding or delivery: it is precision in subjective tasks, especially pronunciation and oral fluency in speech, and depth of development in writing, combined with occasional careless errors in fill-in tasks.

66
Speaking
64
Writing
86
Reading
85
Listening

This predicted score is a directional estimate to guide your practice, not an official Pearson score.

Review, question by question

Navigate one question at a time, or jump anywhere with the grid. Your 10–90 scores are per skill (on the report summary) — here each answer shows whether it was correct, or how strong it was.

1ReadingRead AloudSubmittedThis answer: Solid

Question

Roald Amundsen reached the geographic South Pole on the fourteenth of December 1911, arriving thirty-three days ahead of the ill-fated party led by Robert Falcon Scott. His success rested on quiet decisions taken months earlier, notably his reliance on Greenland dog teams and on food depots that had been laid carefully across the outbound route during the previous summer.

Your answer

Transcript: Roald Amundsen reached the geographic South Pole on the 12/14/1911, arriving thirty three days ahead of the ill fated party led by Robert Falcon Scott. His success rested on quiet decisions taken months earlier, notably his reliance on Greenland dog teams and on food deboards that that had been laid carefully across the outbound route during the previous summer.

Model answer

Roald Amundsen reached the geographic South Pole on the fourteenth of December 1911, arriving thirty-three days ahead of the ill-fated party led by Robert Falcon Scott. His success rested on quiet decisions taken months earlier, notably his reliance on Greenland dog teams and on food depots that had been laid carefully across the outbound route during the previous summer.

Your coach on this answer

New

Exactly what you did, and the one change that lifts it.

What you did

You changed 'fourteenth of December' to '12/14/1911', mispronounced 'depots' as 'deboards', and inserted a duplicate 'that'.

What to fix

Pronounce 'depots' as 'DEH-pohz' and read numbers as written ('fourteenth') rather than converting them to numerals, while removing the repeated 'that'.

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Your 3 biggest leaks

In priority order. Fix these and your overall moves the most.

1
Select Missing Word50/90 · Developing

You scored only 55 on this listening task type because you sometimes chose a plausible word that did not match the speaker's intended meaning. Slow down, reread the context, and make sure your choice fits the argument, not just the grammar.

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2
Retell Lecture62/90 · Developing

Your lecture retellings averaged 62 because you condensed and paraphrased key concepts rather than preserving the specifics the examiner rewards. Practice capturing exact terminology (e.g., high-energy neutrinos, supermassive black hole) and the precise relationships between ideas.

Practice Retell Lecture
3
Describe Image65/90 · Solid

You scored 65 on image descriptions because your numbers and technical terms were approximate rather than exact (CEIs, soot textiles, tectonic pit), and the examiners penalize vagueness on quantitative and factual detail even when overall structure is sound.

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Your skill shape

SpeakingWritingReadingListening
you target
95%

Exam readiness

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Skills profile

Oral Fluency
58
Pronunciation
62
Grammar
64
Vocabulary
68
Spelling
66
Written Discourse
62

These are the traits Pearson names in its official Score Guide, the things the scorer watches inside each task. Since November 2021 they are not reported as separate scores on the real score report. The numbers here are our coaching estimates, not Pearson figures.

Task-by-task breakdown

Select Missing Word50

You scored 1 of 2 on select-missing-word items (outdated correct, but reinforced incorrect; untenable is correct), suggesting that you sometimes chose a plausible but semantically misaligned word under time pressure.

Summarize Written Text61

You produced two summaries well under the 75-word maximum (around 45 and 50 words each) that captured the main ideas accurately, but fell short of the ideal 50-75 word form band and missed some nuance (e.g., your essay summary did not distinguish the two sides of the original argument as clearly as the rubric rewards), and spelling was sound.

Retell Lecture62

You grasped the main points of all three lectures (IceCube neutrino detection, circadian rhythm and sleep, biomimicry and bullet trains) and delivered them fluently, but your summaries condensed key details and sometimes paraphrased central concepts loosely (neutrino source specificity, shift-work health impacts, and the kingfisher's significance) rather than preserving the precision the task requires.

Write Essay62

Your essay on financial literacy in school curriculum reached approximately 280 words, meeting the 200-300 form target, and your argument was coherent (focus on optional commerce, family role, institution role), but your development lacked the depth and structural sophistication a high-scoring essay demands, and some grammatical issues (missing articles, awkward phrasing) and repetition weakened the overall polish.

Describe Image65

Across six graph descriptions you provided relevant detail and structure, but you struggled with precise numbers and terminology (CEIs instead of the correct phrasing, midpoint vs comparison, soot textiles likely a mishearing, February 2022 misplaced date reference, tectonic pit for mechanism), which cost you content marks despite your fluent delivery and confident pacing.

Read Aloud67

You read with generally steady pacing across seven items, but word accuracy suffered from several substitutions and minor garbles (12/14 for fourteenth, deboards for depots, described for describe, deadwood hyphenation, ribbon singular, metals for materials) that cost you precision on the word-accuracy trait, though your overall fluency kept you well above the floor.

Respond to a Situation68

Your three situational responses were appropriate in tone and covered all required elements (apology, explanation, request), but repetitive phrasing (I would like to, thank you for understanding) and some minor grammatical awkwardness (this notice, early early spot) held you back from a higher score despite your courteous and clear delivery.

Summarize Spoken Text68

Your 70-word summary hit the 50-70 form target and captured the key content (sleep cycles, waste clearance, memory consolidation, chronic sleep health risks), but missed the nuance about the asymmetry of the evidence (sleeping much more than nine hours reflects illness rather than being protective) that the original lecture emphasized.

Repeat Sentence71

You captured the core content in most items (10 of 12 attempted), with minor rewording (Building 4 vs building four, notice board vs noticeboard, can vs may, program vs programme) that reflects listening accuracy and fluent reproduction rather than gaps in comprehension, though one item came through silent.

Answer Short Question73

You answered all six questions correctly (equator, insomnia, caravan, biomimicry, corvids, the eye), demonstrating solid vocabulary and listening comprehension across the range of topics, though your response phrasing was sometimes more elaborate than the single-word or two-word answers the task expects.

Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks77

You scored 5 of 6 correct on this linked-skills task (insulate was wrong; thin is correct), showing strong vocabulary and grammar reasoning, though the single error and the mixed-skill nature of the task reflect the slight gaps in your written expression under pressure.

Write from Dictation86

You transcribed 3 of 4 dictation items perfectly, but made minor typing errors on two items (based vs base, atleast vs at least), which is typical under real-time pressure and reflects solid listening with minor transcription slips.

Reading: Fill in the Blanks87

You scored 5 of 6 correct on fill-in-the-blanks-reading items (irrelevant was incorrect; confined is correct), demonstrating solid vocabulary and contextual reasoning in a pure reading task.

Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers (reading)90

You answered all three reading multiple-choice-multiple-answers items correctly, demonstrating careful attention to what the passage explicitly supports and strong inferential reasoning across sleep science, octopus cognition, and tropical cyclones.

Re-order Paragraphs90

You achieved perfect order on all three re-order-paragraphs tasks, showing strong ability to track coherence, pronoun reference, and logical flow across disconnected text segments.

Multiple Choice, Single Answer (reading)90

You answered all three reading multiple-choice-single-answer items correctly, proving strong ability to identify the main point and central argument across diverse passages.

Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers (listening)90

You answered all three listening multiple-choice-multiple-answers items correctly, identifying key points about Antarctic sea ice trends, biomimicry successes, and tropical cyclone intensification.

Highlight Correct Summary90

You selected the correct summary for all four highlight-correct-summary items, demonstrating excellent ability to identify statements that faithfully compress the speaker's argument on sleep physiology, the Silk Road, and corvid cognition.

Multiple Choice, Single Answer (listening)90

You answered all three listening multiple-choice-single-answer items correctly, showing strong ability to grasp the speaker's main point on Amundsen versus Scott, biomimicry constraints, and tropical-cyclone evacuation urgency.

Highlight Incorrect Words90

You identified all incorrect words correctly across three highlight-incorrect-words items, demonstrating precise reading comprehension and ability to spot logical inconsistencies in context.

Your answers, question by question

Your response, the correct answer where there is one, and how to work it out.

31 of 37 objective correct× 6 incorrect· 47 of 48 open-ended attempted

SPEAKING· 27 items

WRITING· 1 item

READING· 29 items

LISTENING· 28 items

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