You are aspiring to give PTE Academic Test and have been preparing for it using various resources. You are following the tips and strategies by the experts. But, have you reflected on the common mistakes that a PTE aspirant makes?

Here, we have listed some mistakes that are overlooked by the aspirants in Re-tell lecture and Summarize Spoken Text modules. 

Essential Tips for Re-tell Lecture

If you’re not alert and prepared, there are high chances that you will commit mistakes.

1. Take clear notes

When it comes to note-taking, some test-takers take notes hurriedly and their handwriting suffers. It results in unnecessary pauses and stops when it’s time to re-tell, because they hard to understand their handwriting. Therefore, take clear notes is significantly important. 

To improve note-taking speed and quality, you may use abbreviations, charts, or shortcut methods. Try to note down chunks of words which you can use to make complete sentences. 

2. Use templates to avoid unnecessary pauses

If you don’t speak for more than 3 seconds, the system will skip to next question automatically. Anything you say after that won’t be recorded. Avoid ‘uhm’ and ‘aah’ sounds, and try to speak fluently. 

Templates gives you the basic structure of re-telling the lecture. You should practice with templates in order to make it effective. 

Example of Re-tell Lecture template:

• At the beginning of the lecture, the lecturer talked about… 
• After that, the lecturer mentioned that…
• He/she suggested that…
• In addition, he/she also said that…
• In conclusion, the lecture gave us a great deal of information about… 

Essential Tips for Summarize Spoken Text

1. Type keywords when listening

You only have 10 minutes to finish this task. So, keep track of the timer all the time. Type keywords directly to the answer box when you are listening the audio. Take notes in chunks and avoid one-word notes. 

2. Pay attention to your grammar

Tenses, punctuation, spellings are significant since it contributes 40% marks in the Summarize Spoken Text. No errors are permissible, use easy and simple word if you are not confident at spelling. 

3. Avoid long and complicated templates

There are 5 parts to score marks in this part, which include contents, form, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. In order to get full mark in terms of “Form” part, the answer should contain 50-70 words. Therefore, it has hight percentage to over word limits if you use long and complicated templates. 

The template has to allow for three distinct parts of the summary: Introduction, Body & Conclusion.

Example of Summarize Spoken Text template:

• The lecture demonstrates…
• Specifically, …
• Furthermore, … 
• In addition, …
• As a result/ In conclusion, …

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