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Re-order Paragraphs-PTE Reading

In the PTE Reorder Paragraphs task, you will around 4 or 5 texts or sentences appear on screen and you must arrange these sentences into a correct and logical order.

✅ Strategies and tips for Re-order Paragraphs

  • Before you start thinking about re-ordering the texts, quickly skim through each sentence and gather the main message of the entire passage. Note down some of the key words and phrases that you notice. 
  • Knowing the overall purpose of the text will allow you to logically place each text in the order that they are supposed to go in.
  • Go through the entire paragraph to find out what sentence is a stand-alone sentence. This means that it makes complete sense without the need of other sentences and does not necessarily contain any links to other sentences. 
  • This is called the topic sentence and usually is the first sentence of the paragraph. 
  • Find similar words and phrases that you can see are connected and place them together. Usually, sentences that have years or dates come in the beginning. 
  • Remember that if the sentence is beginning with a “but” or an “and”, then it cannot be the first sentence of the paragraph. 
  • This can be a difficult task because it is challenging to pin point exactly which sentence goes where in an entire paragraph. 
  • However, with enough practice of the re-order paragraph questions in past PTE papers, you can get used to the kind of questions that are asked. 

✅ Scoring

Your ability to understand the organisation and cohesion of an academic work will be assessed as part of your Re-order Paragraphs response. 

You get the most points for this question type if all of the text boxes are in the correct sequence. Partial credit scoring is used if one or more text boxes are in the wrong order. 

✅ Notes

This task only scores you based on reading; your listening, writing and speaking scores are not affected by this task. 

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Reading & Writing Fill in the Blanks-PTE Reading
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Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks-PTE Reading

For the PTE reading and writing Fill in the Blanks task, you will see text appearing on your screen with blanks or gaps in them. You must fill in those gaps with words that you think would fit the sentence appropriately. 

There will be a drop-down box that you need to choose the specific word from. 

This task is part of the Reading and writing section of your PTE Academic test which scores you on both your reading and writing ability.

 

Strategies

  • A good strategy is to look out for grammar. The missing part of the sentence can be discovered very quickly if you just keep an eye out for the grammatical structure of the sentence along with the words that are adjacent to the blank. 
  • Verbs, nouns, adjectives and more forms of the English languages can be recognized based on the grammar of the sentence. 
  • For example, the sun is ‘shining’. Through the observation of tenses in the sentence, you can come to the conclusion that the blank should be a verb with ‘ing’, hence it’s shining. 
  • Many times, the blank is part of a common idiom or phrase that you could encounter before in your normal life. If you do, then you can quickly finish it without thinking too much about it. 
  • For example, “he’s been on cloud nine all day”. Even if nine was not given, you would know the answer as it is a famous 
  • Skimming the entire paragraph to get a grasp of the meaning can improve your chances of getting all the blanks correct. Skimming helps you discover the key idea of the passage. 
  • Then, when you look at the options given to you under each blank, you can pick them depending on what you understood from the passage, as long as the grammar fits the passage. 

Scoring

Your ability to apply contextual and grammatical signals to find words that complete a reading text will be assessed in Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks. 

If you successfully fill in all of the blanks, you will obtain the highest possible score for this question type. Partial credit scoring is used if one or more blanks are wrongly filled.

For PTE Fill in the Blank mock tests, practice questions and practice tests online, please visit https://oneaustraliagroup.com/pte-coaching/. 

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