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Study Guide: PTE Academic Exam Survival Guide
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PTE Academic Exam Survival Guide

By Fatskills Exam Guides Team — the exam nerds behind 28,500+ quizzes and 2.1M practice questions across 500+ global exams.

⏱️ ~1 min read

Pattern: single ~2-hour CBT with Speaking & Writing, Reading, Listening; item types scored by content + form + pronunciation/fluency

Must-do (high-leverage items)

  • Repeat Sentence, Describe Image, Retell Lecture, Write Essay, Summarize Written/Spoken Text, Reading & Writing: Fill-in-the-blanks.

Top traps

  • Speaking: chasing perfect grammar → lose fluency; monotone delivery.
  • Writing: missing task form (word count, single-sentence summary).
  • Reading: ignoring collocations in blanks.

Time & 48-h plan

  • 3 Speaking sets (RS/DI/Retell), 2 essays, 4 RW-FIB passages, 3 listening summaries; review scoring form rules.


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