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1 1 TEST2student answersPTE academic PrAcTicE tests PluS PEArSon EducATion limiTEd 2013 PhoTocoPiAblETest 2, Speakingread aloud1 Topic: StatisticsStudent s overall PTE academic score: 55 237 Statistics reflect vital information about the economy, the well-being of the population and the environment. Society relies on statistics being visible, accessible and robust. And on statistically literate people making the best use of the information to determine future action. Statistical literacy, then, is the ability to accurately understand, interpret and evaluate the data that inform these s comments: Every word from the prompt has been read, but this student s speech is slow and hesitant, with unnatural pauses within sentences.

2 The student s pronunciation is also often unclear; for example, these sounds like this and the key word statistics is consistently mispronounced as stadistics . Student s overall PTE academic score: 74 238 Statistics reflect vital information about the economy, the well-being of the population and environment. Societies relies on statistics being visible, accessible and robust. And on statistically literate people m making the best use of the information to determine future action. Statistical literacy, then, is the ability to accurately understand, interpret and evaluate the data that inform these s comments: Despite occasional hesitation, this student s fluency is very strong, but their overall score would be reduced due to the omission of the word the from the first sentence.

3 In addition, the pronunciation of vowel sounds is often poor; for example, these and this are indistinguishable. Student s overall PTE academic score: 89 239 Statistics reflect vital information about the economy, the well-being of the population and the environment. Society relies on statistics being visible, accessible and robust, and on statistically literacy er literate people making the best use of the information to determine future action. Statistical literacy then, is the ability to accurately understand, interpret and evaluate the data that inform these s comments: This response s overall score would be slightly reduced by a hesitation and a repetition before the term statistically literate people.

4 Otherwise, this student s fluency is very strong, and they would be awarded a high score for pronunciation. 2 Topic: housingStudent s overall PTE academic score: 55 240 Housing fulfils the basic needs that people have for security, privacy and shelter. While the adequacy of housing is an important component of the individual well-being, housing also has great impact on the nation s economy, with it with its influence on investment levels, interest rates, building activity and em, and s comments: This student would receive a reduced score for fluency due to frequent hesitations in which words from the text are repeated, such as with it - with its influence and em, and employment.

5 The student would also receive a low score for pronunciation due to consistent non-native pronunciation throughout the reading of the text and clear mispronunciation of some basic words, such as indiwidual . Student s overall PTE academic score: 67 241 Housing fulfils the basic needs that people have for security, privacy and shelter. While the adequacy of housing is an important component of individual well-being, housing also has great impact on the nation s economy, with its influence on investment levels, interest rates, pub building activity and s comments: This student speaks quite slowly and pauses before saying housing , so their response would receive a low score for fluency.

6 However, the student s overall score would be raised as the response contains every word from the prompt and is read with clear pronunciation. 2 TEST2student answersPTE academic PrAcTicE tests PluS PEArSon EducATion limiTEd 2013 PhoTocoPiAblEStudent s overall PTE academic score: 89 242 Housing fulfils the basic needs that people have for security, privacy and shelter. While the adequacy of housing is an important component of individual well-being, housing also has a great impact on the nation s economy, with its influence on investment levels, interest rates, building activity and s comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear, native-like pronunciation and fluency.

7 Therefore the student would receive a maximum overall Topic: being physically activeStudent s overall PTE academic score: 55 243 Being physically active benefits .. people s health significantly, including reducing the risk .. of some chronic conditions, helping to control weight, an improving mental health. In recent decades, there has been a decline in physical activity be cause more people work in office rather than in manual s comments: This student s speech is much too slow, with regular, long and unnatural pauses within sentences, such as between benefits and people , and between risk and of.

8 Therefore, a very low score for fluency would be given. The student s pronunciation is adequately clear but clearly non-native. Student s overall PTE academic score: 67 244 Being physically active benefits people s health significantly, including reducing the risk of some chronic conditions, helping to control weight, and improving mental health. In recent decades, there has been a decline in physical activity because more people work in offices rather than in manual s comments: This student speaks slowly during the first half of the text, but more naturally for the second half. The student would receive an intermediate score for fluency, but a relatively high score for pronunciation, which is clear s overall PTE academic score: 89 245 Being physically active benefits people s health significantly, including reducing the risk of some chronic conditions, helping to control weight, and improving mental health.

9 In recent decades, there has been a decline in physical activity because more people work in offices rather than in manual s comments: This student has read every word from the prompt with clear, native-like pronunciation and fluency. Therefore this student would receive a maximum overall score. 4 Topic: leave of AbsenceStudent s overall PTE academic score: 45 246 Students who wish to take a break from their studies will need to put an an applica application form Leave of Absence. If your application is successful, you will be noticed via em email. At the end of your Leave of Absence, you must re re-enrol at Student Services and in the subjects you intend to s comments: This student often fails to read, or mispronounces, prepositions from the text including for , in , and to.

10 In addition, the student repeats other words. These problems would reduce the student s overall score. This response would also receive a low score for pronunciation due to problems such as reading notified as noticed .Student s overall PTE academic score: 67 247 Students who wish to take a break from their studies will need to put in an application for Leave of Absence. If your application is successful, you will be notified via email. At the end of your Leave of Absence, you must re-enrol at Student Services and in the subjects you intend to s comments: This student s pronunciation is clear, but some vowel sounds are read in a way which is clearly not native-like.