PTE Writing

PTE Writing Summarize Written Text – Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence (between 5 and 75 words). Type your response in the box at the bottom of the screen. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points in the passage.

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Background

Summarize Written Text is the first part of the Writing module of the PTE test. In this part, candidates will be given between 1 to 3 passages to summarize. Candidates will have 10 minutes to summarize each passage into one sentence. This sentence can be as many as 5 to 75 words long. Remember, this one sentence can only have one full stop. Once this rule is broken, no points will be awarded for that item.

Do’s and don’ts of the SWT

• Your timer turns red once you have under five minutes left.
• If you finished your summary and still had some time left, check your spelling, grammar and punctuation again. Going next does NOT save you the remaining time.
• You can only copy, cut and paste from what you have typed inside the box.
• Before making any radical changes to your summary, copy it so that you can paste it back if you changed your mind or if you were running out of time.

Essay

PTE Write Essay is one of the only two tasks in PTE Academic Writing section, the other task is PTE Summarise Written Text.

• prompted with an essay topic, usually 2 -3 sentences.
• writing a 200 – 300 word essay
• given 20 minutes time limit to answer

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