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Test 2, Speaking: Read Aloud
Test 2, Speaking: Read Aloud
Test 2, Speaking
Read aloud
1 Topic: Statistics
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239 Statistics reflect vital information about the economy, the well-being of the population and the environment.
Society relies on statistics being visible, accessible and robust, and on statistically literacy – er literate people making the
best use of the information to determine future action. Statistical literacy then, is the ability to accurately understand,
interpret and evaluate the data that inform these issues.
Examiner’s comments: This response’s overall score would be slightly reduced by a hesitation and a repetition before the
term ‘statistically literate people’. Otherwise, this student’s fluency is very strong, and they would be awarded a high score
for pronunciation.
2 Topic: Housing
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Student’s overall PTE Academic score: 89
245 Being physically active benefits people’s health significantly, including reducing the risk of some chronic
conditions, helping to control weight, and improving mental health. In recent decades, there has been a decline in
physical activity because more people work in offices rather than in manual jobs.
Examiner’s comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear, native-like pronunciation and fluency.
Therefore this student would receive a maximum overall score.
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Student’s overall PTE Academic score: 89
251 There are a number of tests available which can suggest if a person is telling the truth, but knowing which ones
are accurate is not easy. A newly created test is claimed to be the most accurate– accurate yet in lie detection. However,
questions have been raised about this accuracy and ethics.
Examiner’s comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear, native-like pronunciation and good
fluency. An unnatural repetition of the word ‘accurate’ would prevent a maximum score for fluency, but the overall score
would be very good.
Test 2, Speaking
Repeat sentence
1 Topic: Applying for an extension
Examiner’s comments: This student only repeats the first half of the sentence and mispronounces ‘extension’, so they would
be given a low overall score.
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257 Students wishing to apply for extension should approach their tutors.
Examiner’s comments: This student’s fluency is good, yet their response would lose points because they say ‘wishing’ rather
than ‘who wish’ and they mispronounce ‘should’ as ‘shoe’.
Examiner’s comments: This response contains less than 50 percent of the text and the student’s speech is hesitant
and unclear.
Examiner’s comments: This student repeats more than 50 percent of the text, and therefore would receive an average score
for content, but their speech is hesitant and words like ‘schemes’ and ‘research’ are very poorly pronounced.
Examiner’s comments: This student repeats almost all of the text with good fluency and pronunciation, but the overall score
would be reduced because the student says ‘local communities’ rather than ‘neighbourhood’.
Examiner’s comments: This student does not repeat the words ‘can’ or ‘clearer’ accurately and the pronunciation of ‘aids’ is
very poor.
Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
Examiner’s comments: This student reads less than 50 percent of the prompt and there is a very long pause within the
response, so the overall score would be low.
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Student’s overall PTE Academic score: 67
265 Economies of scale is the increased efficiency that occurs when more goods are produced.
Examiner’s comments: This student’s fluency is very good but their response would lose points for saying ‘economies’ rather
than ‘economy’ and for omitting the word ‘in’.
Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a good score for repeating almost every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency. However, the response would lose points because the student does not say ‘that occurs’.
Examiner’s comments: This student’s fluency is reasonably good, but their overall score would be reduced because
the student mispronounces ‘sustainable’ and says ‘to be’ rather than ‘towards being’, and ‘environmental’ rather
than ‘environmentally’.
Examiner’s comments: This student mispronounces ‘the’ as ‘day’, and says ‘friendly’ rather than ‘sustainable’. Therefore,
despite good fluency, the overall score for this response would be low.
Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
6 Topic: Art
Examiner’s comments: This student repeats less than 50 percent of the prompt and speaks with poor pronunciation
and fluency.
Examiner’s comments: This student’s speech is slow and hesitant, and therefore there is not enough time to repeat the
whole prompt.
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Student’s overall PTE Academic score: 89
272 Unlike applied arts, fine arts do not serve a practical function.
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Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
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7 Topic: Modern poetry
Examiner’s comments: This student only repeats two words, ‘modern’ and ‘poetry’, accurately and pronunciation and
fluency are very poor.
Examiner’s comments: This student would almost achieve a maximum overall score, but they would lose points for
repeating ‘tests’ as ‘test’ and ‘conventions’ as ‘convention’.
Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
Examiner’s comments: This student repeats less than 50 percent of the prompt, and the overall score would be further
reduced because the student says ‘I don’t know’.
Examiner’s comments: This student repeats the prompt well with sufficient fluency, but they would lose points for
pronunciation as they say ‘close’ rather than ‘closed’.
Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
Examiner’s comments: This student repeats almost all the words accurately, but would lose points for saying ‘is’ rather than
‘are’ and for poor fluency.
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Student’s overall PTE Academic score: 74
280 There are no places left in the morning tutorials.
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Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a high score for repeating almost every word accurately, with clear
pronunciation and good fluency. The response’s score would be reduced because the student says ‘tutorials’ rather
than ‘tutorial’.
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Student’s overall PTE Academic score: 89
281 There are no places left in the morning tutorial.
Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a maximum score for repeating every word accurately, with native-like
pronunciation and fluency.
Examiner’s comments: This student does not repeat the words ‘is’, ‘to’ or ‘draw’, and they mispronounce ‘greater’.
Therefore the response would receive a low score.
Examiner’s comments: This student says ‘join’ rather than ‘draw’ and hesitates before ‘than last year’. Despite these
problems, the fluency score would be relatively good.
Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a good score for repeating almost every word accurately, with
native-like pronunciation and fluency. Points would be lost because the student says ‘expected’ and ‘bigger audience’
rather than ‘predicted’ and ‘greater numbers’.
Test 2, Speaking
Describe image
1 Topic: Student apartment plan
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287 This floor– floor plan shows the layout of a student apartment. We can see a bathroom at the bottom– at the
left hand side at the bottom and then the next to it is the kitchen and then the er bathroom with the two windows and
there is a study area on the right hand side on the top. And there is some– I think maybe it’s a communal living area um
with an entrance on the right hand side.
Examiner’s comments: This student would achieve a high score for describing the key features of the image, with reasonably
clear pronunciation and good fluency. However, in order to achieve maximum points, the student would need to describe
the objects in each area of the apartment and suggest some implications of the apartment’s design.
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Examiner’s comments: The student’s response does not include nuclear, coal, or hydroelectric power. In addition, the
student fails to mention the respective percentages for each of the types of energy consumption. Although similarities
between North America and South America are described, the student fails to contrast the differences between the two
territories. The student’s pronunciation is adequately clear, but this response’s score for fluency would be low.
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morning and maybe some social events in the afternoon and um day three there will be excursion to local attraction, and
starting from day five, the full day activities including maybe like a tennis or a film or a game [cut]
Examiner’s comments: This student describes some key features, but fails to mention the weekend activities. The fluency of
the response is very good and the student’s pronunciation is clear. In order to achieve a higher score, the description would
need to mention Days 6 and 7 and to include some suggestions about the image’s implications.
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Examiner’s comments: This student describes all the key features of the image from the adult butterfly laying the egg to the
emergence of the butterfly from the pupa. The student does not comment on any implications, such as the complexity of
the life cycle, and their score would be also reduced by the slowness and hesitancy of the student’s speech. Although the
student’s pronunciation is clear, it is not native-like.
Test 2, Speaking
Re-tell lecture
1 Topic: The purpose of museums
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306 The speaker was talking about er graffiti– graffiti as um art, which becomes very popular nowadays, which
used to use in ancient er or Rome time, and people er do their art in the– in the building, in the– in the shop, even
in subway train display um they show their skill, how they can be very good at in artisting, in becoming very popular
nowadays, um especially in New York.
Examiner’s comments: This student’s description does include some main points, such as the ancient tradition of graffiti, but
it fails to mention reasons why people use graffiti today. For example, the description should have mentioned that people
use graffiti to ‘express their disillusionment’. The student’s speech is hesitant and their words are pronounced in a way that
is not native-like.
3 Topic: Biomimicry
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look at how they can glow without using hardly any energy and they’ve also looked at the strength of spiders’ webs for
instance.
Examiner’s comments: This student’s excellent description covers all the key points of the lecture. Appropriately, the
student begins re-telling the lecture by stating its topic, ‘biomimicry’. The student then provides supporting details to
illustrate nature’s importance to technology. The response would also receive a very high score for the student’s native-like
fluency and pronunciation.
Test 2, Writing
Summarize written text
1 Topic: Sea creatures and sound
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Many sea creatures respond to sound and even produce it for survival; however, the undersea noise pollution created by
human beings has severely interfered the daily lives of marine animals.
Examiner’s comments: This response contains all the key points from the lecture and the student has used a semi-colon
effectively to lengthen this summary. The summary contains appropriately chosen vocabulary and would receive a good
score for this. However, the student should have written ‘has severely interfered with the daily lives of marine animals’,
and the omission of ‘with’ between ‘interfered’ and ‘the’ would reduce the grammar score. ‘Interfere’ is an intransitive verb.
2 Topic: Chillies
Test 2, Writing
Write essay
1 Topic: In school until the age of eighteen
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In conclusion, it is not actually important to go to school till age of eighteen as long as any one can achieve thire basic
education in the school level unless it is a legislation for a student to attend untill age of eighteen.
Examiner’s comments: This essay is very poor. Although the student has tried to divide the argument into five separate
parts, it is unclear how some of these parts are connected to the question. The student’s second paragraph is about
the home, not school, and it is unclear until the conclusion why the student has used the example of the UK in the third
paragraph. The essay contains many poor choices of vocabulary which prevent the student from effectively communicating
ideas: for example, it is unsuitable to call education an ‘eliment’. The misspelling of this word and many others would also
reduce the student’s score.
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same time. Firstly, due to massive industrial development we are receiving benefits and other side we are causing damage
to the nature leading environmental problem like flood, earth quick, tsunami, weather change etc. Destroying forest is
one of the great example which cause the global warming and reasulting to meting ice and leading to rising water level
in the sea which causing flood even some areas never happen before. Secondly,The weather changing very often which
interupting our normal days. Thirdly, destroying the natural balance by excavating hills, filling lake, making taller building
cause the imbalance of nature.
People are suffering from environmental problems and they want to reduce them by taking actions. To do that both
individual and Government need to take steps and work together to protect us from natural desester and preventing
them to happen. Every individual need to be careful about their every action and try to be eco friendly. In the mean time
Government can try to reduce them by stoping damaging the nature and by making legislation to protect nature so that
we can be protected from desester.
Finally, It is our duties as a individual to help government to protect nature and save ourselves and It is also government
duty to prevent human being to destry nature by making laws and trying to save the nature. Because every individual
combindlt make a Government.
Examiner’s comments: This essay contains many grammatical, spelling and vocabulary mistakes. In addition, its introduction
and second paragraph are not clearly connected to the question. The student does not refer to the responsibilities of the
government and individuals, and points such as ‘Natural desester in one of the leading cause of technology development’
are wrong and irrelevant. At the end of the essay, the student’s opinion is clear; however, the first half of the essay has been
wasted. In order to improve the essay score, the student should address the question more clearly and quickly.
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the hook of the song really brought the message home better than the government infomercials. Also the fact that an
individual felt so strongly, and called for action really appealed to me.
There are also other ways for individuals to get invlolved: wearing a sweater indoors, rather than switching the heating on,
vegetarianism, recycling and conserving the usage of water are all examples of small actions which cumulatively can make
a huge difference. The savings we have made by using energy effiecient light bulbs for instance, is a good example of how
individuals and governments can work in tandem.
Change has usually been a social phenomenon, steered by one or more visionaries. Sometimes these visionaries hold
positions in government, but more often they are just regular citizens.
Examiner’s comments: This essay would receive a high score because it effectively addresses the question and the student’s
ideas are supported by clear explanations and interesting examples. The student’s use of grammar and vocabulary are
mostly very strong; however, occasional errors would prevent this essay achieving a maximum score in these areas. For
example, the student says ‘The government can only do so much, but the real change needs to come from the individual.’
‘Only’ and ‘but’ should not be used together in this way, and it is necessary for a student to show a full mastery of language
for a maximum score.
Test 2, Listening
Summarize spoken text
1 Topic: Proofreading
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government of cities. Inappropriate vocabulary choices, such as ‘responsibility services’ and grammatical errors within the
summary would make the overall score low. In addition, the student would lose points for incorrectly spelling first as ‘fist’
and these as ‘this’.