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Practise Summarize Written Text and Write Essay inside the combined PTE Academic Speaking & Writing section, which Pearson lists as approximately 76–84 minutes. Review feedback on content, form, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling; any AI score is unofficial.
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Practise Summarize Written Text and Write Essay inside the combined PTE Academic Speaking & Writing section, which Pearson lists as approximately 76–84 minutes. Review feedback on content, form, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling; any AI score is unofficial.
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Practise selecting a central claim, covering an essay prompt, and revising a sentence without relying on a memorised template.
How to try it: Draft your answer or plan first. Then use the checklist to revise one decision rather than copying the sample direction.
1. Summarize Written Text
City trees cool streets by shading hard surfaces and releasing water vapour. The effect is not evenly distributed because neighbourhoods with fewer mature trees can remain several degrees warmer. Some councils now use heat maps to prioritise planting where exposure and health risks are greatest.
Answer or self-check: Sample direction: Although city trees reduce heat through shade and water release, their uneven distribution leaves some neighbourhoods warmer, prompting councils to target planting with heat-risk maps.
Why: The sentence combines the cooling mechanism, the inequality, and the response without turning a supporting detail into the main point.
2. Write Essay
Answer or self-check: Plan: take a clear position; develop one advantage such as matching work to productive hours; develop a second such as reduced commuting pressure; address a limitation such as coordination; explain why your chosen side still carries more weight.
Why: The prompt requires a comparative judgement. Listing benefits and drawbacks without saying which outweighs the other leaves the task unanswered.
3. Sentence revision
Flexible schedules are good and workers like them and companies can have problems with meetings.
Answer or self-check: Although flexible schedules can improve employee satisfaction, companies need shared working hours to coordinate meetings effectively.
Why: “Although” makes the contrast explicit, while the revised clauses replace vague words with specific claims.
Practice Summarize Written Text (1 sentence summary) and Essay Writing (200-300 words) with AI-powered feedback and scoring.
Pearson lists the combined Speaking & Writing section as approximately 76–84 minutes.