Read Aloud in PTE EXAM

Content

"Content" score alone doesn't have much reference value. It's better to use the "Total" score as a reference for how well you performed in this task. And you are suggested to check the "Skill Analysis" below to see your areas of improvement.

 

According to the official "Score Guide", to score well in "Content", you're required to read the whole passage without any replacement, omission or insertion. But it doesn't mean that you will definitely get full marks in "Content" when read the whole passage. The "Content" score is also influenced by your pronunciation. You will not score high in "Content" if you're not pronuncing clearly.

 

Moreover, "Pronunciation" and "Fluency" are more important than "Content" because they account for more marks. If necessary, you can sacrifice a bit of "Content" and skip a few difficult-to-pronunce words in order to keep fluent.

 

Pronunciation

"Pronunciation" score alone doesn't have much reference value because it has too many influencing factors. It's better to use the "Total" score as a reference for how well you performed in this task. And you are suggested to check the "Skill Analysis" below to see your areas of improvement.

 

According to the official "Score Guide", to score well in "Pronunciation", you're required to have not only accurate pronunciations of each individual words, but also continuous speech, and correct word-level and sentence-level stress.

 

Fluency

"Fluency" score alone doesn't have much reference value because it has too many influencing factors. It's better to use the "Total" score as a reference for how well you performed in this task. And you are suggested to check the "Skill Analysis" below to see your areas of improvement.

 

According to the official "Score Guide", to score well in "Fluency", you're required not only to read smoothly, without unnatural pauses or hesitations, but also to have natural intonation, phrasing and speed.

 

 

 

 

Pronunciation Accuracy

"Pronunciation Accuracy" shows if your word pronunciations are accurate. A higher score, which is closer to 100%, means your pronunciation accuracy is more similar to that of the high-scoring users. On the contrary, a lower score means you should improve your pronunciations; try to learn the correct pronunciations of the mis-pronounced words.

 

You can refer to the "Pronunciation Accuracy" diagram below to see which words you have mis-pronounced, especially the red colored words.

 

Fluent

"Fluent" shows if you have unnatural pauses or hesitations. A higher score, which is closer to 100%, means you have less problems.

 

Stress

"Stress" shows if you've successfully weakened your pronunciations of the function words. A higher score, which is closer to 100%, means you have made fewer mistakes of not weakening the pronunciations of function words.

 

A native speaker will normally pronounce content words, words such as nouns, verbs, adjectives which have meanings, more clearly. And they will pronounce function words, such as "to" / "of" / "an" / "the", in a flatter and quicker way.

 

You may refer to the "Stress" diagram below to see which function words you did not read in a weak form.

 

Speed

"Speed" shows if your speech rate is normal, too fast or too slow. The "speed" is referring to how fast you pronounce the words, not your total answering time. It does not take into account the pausing time. Some users may take a long time to answer because their pauses are long, but they have pronounced the words fast, so their "speed" is still considered fast in this dimension.

 

If "speed" is less than 100%, it means that your speech rate is slower than that of the high-scoring users, and you can try to speak faster. In the exam, speaking slowly will get you heavily penalized.

 

If "speed" is more than 100%, it means that your speech rate is faster than that of the high-scoring users. In the exam, you may not necessarily get penalized for speaking fast as long as you have done well in the other dimensions. And for some people, speaking slightly faster can naturally help them reduce the problem of unnatural pauses, hence getting a better score.

 

But if you are speaking too fast, you may have compromised your speech clarity and smooth rhythm. This will cause you to lose marks in the exam.

 

It's not recommended to blindly increasing your speed in practice for the sake of getting a higher score in APEUni. In this case, the APEUni score will not be accurate because most likely you have practiced one question a lot of times to be able to speak fast and at the same time without any hesitations, but it's hard to do so in the exam when you only have 35 - 40s to prepare.

 

It's best to find a suitable speed for yourself, not too fast, nor too slow.

 

READ ALOUD Word

Color : speak fast then 1 sec pause   color = speak fast then 2 to 3 sec pause

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 Aloud: ( 3 sec mic stop)

Look at the text for 35 seconds, you will have to read a bit fast and as fast as you can, but also, at the same time, you need to be clear , your pronunciation needs to be articulate because , even if you read very fats, sky rocket train , you can get 90 and you will get 90 in fluency but the problem is that if you speak extremely fast , pronunciation falls below to sometime

One line Methods:

You can speak only suitable one full stop line or 10 to 12 words in paragraph without skip any words and then press next button.

All paragraph Methods:

Read all of the paragraph and you can skip the 2 to 3 difficult words in paragraph.

Chunking Methods:

It is communication technique that splits large amounts of information into smaller, more manageable sections.