Here are Top 3 frequently asked Summarize Spoken Text questions in recent PTE Academic test (October 2020).

1. Australian Housing Price

Well, it’s like, why is Australian housing is so expensive? Essentially, it’s showing of how well the Australian economy has been doing over the last 15 years. We have had 15 years more or less of an uninterrupted economic growth during which average earning has been raised by close to 90 percent. While over the course of that period, the standard variable mortgage rate has roughly halved. That meant that the amount which a typical home buying house hold can afford to borrow under rules which aren’t strictly applied as they used to be had more than doubled. Over the same period, rising immigration in falling average household size has meant that the number of households looking for accomodation has risen by about one and a half million. That’s around 200 thousand more than the number of dwellings has increased by. So you have had a substantial increase in the purchasing power of households. No net increase in the supply of housing enhance all that addition purchasing power has gone into pushing up the price of housing.

2.The Big Bang Theory

One of the most amazing things in the speaker’s life is studying cosmology. Studying cosmology is the most amazing thing for the speaker because the universe is mysterious. Scientists previously believed the big bang happened 10 to 20 billion years ago. However, a more precise measurement indicates the universe is 13.8 billion years old (instead of 14). (And has kept changing ever since.) Which is perfectly matched the university is little older than the oldest star (which has 13 billion years old), the Big Bang theory. Even when the universe begins is known) People still need to understand how the big bang happened and how the universe works. And know about the future.

3. Indian Peasants Debt (Version 1)

The debt today is so high, it’s two hundred thousand rupees, three hundred thousand rupees of peasant who have no capital. They who know within a year or two, when they accumulate that kind of debt. Where is the debt coming from? It’s coming from a seed that is costing a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand rupees per kilogram, depending on what you got. Seeds that used to be free, used to be theirs. Pesticides each time, the more they use, the more they have to use, 12 sprays, 15 sprays, 20 sprays. Pesticides used in just the last five years in the land areas of India has shown up by 2000 percent. That’s why the free market and globalization have brought and since we are talking about peasants, who have no money, who have no capital, they can only buy expensive seeds and expensive pesticides by borrowing. And who lend that money? The seed companies that sell the pesticides, which are the same companies that sell the seeds, as you know, are now also the major creditors.