PTE Listening 2025 – Format, Task Requirements & Tips (Part 2)

✅ 4. Multiple Choice – Multiple Answers

  • Task: Listen to a recording (50–90 seconds) and select all correct answers.
  • Time: After audio finishes
  • Skills Assessed: Listening
  • Scoring Criteria:
    • Partial Credit – Points for each correct choice
    • Penalty – Points deducted for incorrect choices

✅ 5. Multiple Choice – Single Answer

  • Task: Listen to a short clip (30–60 seconds) and choose one correct answer.
  • Time: After audio finishes
  • Skills Assessed: Listening + Reading
  • Scoring Criteria:
    • Binary Scoring – Full marks for correct answer only, no partial credit

✅ 6. Select Missing Word

  • Task: Listen to a recording (20–70 seconds) and select the correct final word or phrase to complete the sentence.
  • Time: Immediately after audio ends
  • Skills Assessed: Listening + Prediction
  • Scoring Criteria:
    • Binary Scoring – Full marks for correct answer, zero for incorrect

✅ 7. Highlight Incorrect Words

  • Task: Listen to a recording (15–50 seconds) and compare it to a transcript. Click on the words that are different from what you hear.
  • Time: While the audio is playing
  • Skills Assessed: Listening + Reading
  • Scoring Criteria:
    • +1 point for each correct selection
    • –1 point for each incorrect selection
    • Does not affect Speaking or Writing scores

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