What to expect – PTE – SST – Summarize Spoken Text
In this section, you will hear a short audio lecture. You need to write a summary for a fellow student who was not present. You should write 50-70 words. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points presented in the report.
There will be 2-3 item sets in the exam from this section. The recording will be between 60 to 90 seconds long.
How you are scored – PTE – SST – Summarize Spoken Text
Content:
2 Provides a good summary of the text. All relevant aspects are mentioned
1 Provides a fair summary of the text, but one or two aspects are missing
0 Omits or misrepresents the main aspects
Form:
2 Contains 50-70 words
1 Contains 40-49 words or 71-100 words
0 Contains less than 40 words or more than 100 words. Summary is written in capital letters, contains no punctuation or consists only of bullet points or very short sentences
Grammar:
2 Correct grammatical structures
1 Contains grammatical errors with no hindrance to communication
0 Defective grammatical structures which could hinder communication
Vocabulary:
2 Appropriate choice of words
1 Some lexical errors but with no hindrance to communication
0 Defective word choice which could hinder communication
Spelling:
2 Correct spelling
1 One spelling error
0 More than one spelling error
- Food Waste
- Sleep
- Global Economy
- Hook Sentence
- Memory
- Decline of Bees
- Ugly Building
- Government Tricks
- Curator
- Inhabitants in Australia
- History of English
- Food Label
- We Are Animals
- The History of Laundry
- Books
- Truism
- Telescope
- Smile of Mother And Baby
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Australian Housing Price
- Socialism
- Implicit AND Explicit Memory
- HTML
- History and Journal Writing
- Happiness
- Epidemic Transmitting
- Genes Appearance
- Children Depression
- Abstraction Symbol
- African Economy
- Misuse Of Drugs
- Water Purification
- African Economy
- Architecture Design
- Big Bang Theory
- Fossil Fuels
- Student Loan
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Typhoid Mary
- Animal Survival and Reproduction
- Amory Lovings
- Citizenship Curriculum
- Competition faced by LSE
- Sharing Power
- Indian Peasants Debts
- Vitamin D
- Cocoa Aztects
- Einstein & Universe
- Stanford University Business School – Management and Leadership
- Sound Receptors
- War of Talents
- Kids in Museums