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In this blog article I will tell you the basics of PTE time mangement. Indeed, it is one of the main
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In short, you need to move ‘efficiently’ yet ‘accurately’ through the tasks. Some of the tasks are
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PTE Time Management

PTE Listening

In PTE Listening the first task — Summarize Spoken Text — is individually timed for ten minutes.
You can consider this task ‘separate’ to the other six listening tasks.

For the other 7 tasks, you must manage your own time making sure that you move efficiently yet
accurately through them. Don’t waste time in PTE Listening because it is vitally important that you
make it to the final task which is called Write from Dictation.

I have seen many candidates get low writing and listening scores because they did not move
quickly enough through PTE Listening and as such missed some of the Write from Dictation
questions.

In PTE Listening you will get the answers during the audio or immediately after the audio.
Therefore, you really should not spend time ‘looking’ at the answers. If you listened carefully and
took notes then you can match your notes (and your memory) to the correct answer option in just a
few seconds.

Take Select Missing Word, for example. In this task you will hear a short audio of about 30
seconds. The final word or words is missing and you must select from a list of around 5 options
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You should select ‘immediately’. If you missed it, you missed it; don’t waste time looking at those
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The same goes for the other tasks. For MCSA and Highlight Correct Summary, for example, you
should match your notes to the correct answer.

This means that you should only spend about 30 seconds after the audio has finished before you
move on to the next question because all you do is match your notes to the correct answer option.
Reading through the answer options should only take you about 30 seconds.

Remember, the audio is not coming back; you can’t replay it. If you don’t know the answer guess
and move on; don’t waste precious time.

1. Summarize Spoken Text

10 minutes to listen to the lecture, take notes, write and edit your summary

Use all of the time because saved time DOES NOT carry over to the other tasks.

So, what’s next?

For the rest of the Listening tasks you must:

Listen
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Select the answer(s)
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Prakash Saurav says:

September 28, 2017 at 11:19 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-1037)

For PTE Listening it will be 7 other tasks and not 6 as mentioned in Blog

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Abhiram says:
October 6, 2017 at 2:52 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-1039)

Hello Prakash,

Thank you for pointing this out. We have made the change 🙂

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Serg says:
May 9, 2018 at 11:33 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-
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“You can consider this task ‘separate’ to the other six listening tasks.” – in this case also
should be `seven`, not `six` then. 🙂

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Vijay says:
October 1, 2017 at 8:22 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-1038)

Thank You very much Jay

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Iftikhar says:
March 4, 2018 at 5:33 am (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-1250)

How much marks write from dictation carry for listening and writing ?

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Faraz Khan says:

May 21, 2019 at 9:05 am (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-
13740)

It carries a lot of marks. DO NOT MISS IT!!

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Ifan says:
April 16, 2018 at 9:57 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-1656)

Hello jay if in pte practice if we run out of total time, does it will affect the result? Because even I did
run out of time the exam was still working and continuing the exam

Thanks

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abhi says:
May 3, 2018 at 4:15 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-1829)

Hello there,

Could you please elaborate?

Best,
AC

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amudala jeevanteja says:

June 4, 2018 at 12:33 am (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-2273)

Hello ifan, it will affect the score , in my previous attempt i ran out of time because of that out
of 15 questions i answered only 10 questions in listening section, i got 39 in listening ,over all
52 .

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Charu says:
May 20, 2018 at 5:24 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-2075)

Thanks a lot for this I missed write from dictation completely, although I do not think I took much time
in listening tasks. And my scores were highly impacted by that, will try to apply the tips suggested in
second attempt.

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Vinay says:
June 11, 2018 at 8:06 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-2337)

I took test today, and missed last 2 Write from Dictionary questions because of time out. How much
will that impact my score ? I really should have referred the blog before 🙁

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olivia says:
July 16, 2018 at 6:19 am (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-2914)

Oh no!

I’m not sure how much these missing tasks will impact your score! But don’t stress about it too
much now! You will see.

& if you have to revisit the exam- now you know!

GOOD LUCK,
The E2 Team

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Jitender (http://www.etaxlogic.com) says:

July 31, 2018 at 2:29 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-3255)

Friend sorry to say but dictation has great impact on our score because I missed all 3
dictations as a result of which I got Listening 68, Writing 66, Speaking 89, Reading 80. So you
can easily analyse the impact of dictation.

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Babar says:
May 22, 2019 at 2:53 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-
13761)

Dear can u share some tips and techniques for Reading & speaking tasks.How to score
79 at these tasks( Reading and speaking)

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Simon says:
June 12, 2018 at 3:31 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-2344)

In part 1 of the PTA Academic for speaking, I ran out of time and was not able to answer the short
questions! When the section started the clock was on approx 45 seconds. I felt truly swindled,
especially after paying for and completing three practice tests smoothly.

The advice that: “In PTE Speaking each of the tasks are individually timed, meaning that you do not
need to worry” is surely not correct?

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olivia says:
July 16, 2018 at 6:17 am (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-2913)

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Oh no! I’m so sorry to hear that!

I truly feel for your situation 🙁 I guess ‘technically, each task IS individually timed! Making it
in theory “easier”…

But it’s true, for a lot of students, this may just make it EVEN more difficult! We wish you a
better test experience next time! Now you know!

GOOD LUCK,
The E2 Team

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MANA says:
June 14, 2018 at 10:43 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-2367)

Hi Jay
Thanks for the great video. The chart you asked, which was a bar chart including many colors in
each bar called “stacked bar chart”.
Best
Mana

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Seema says:
September 28, 2018 at 11:53 am (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-4764)

Hi everyone,

I got 8+ in Reading and Speaking, but I missed 3 Write from dictation. Writing is my strong point,
however, I got the lowest (7) in writing. Got 7.5 in listening. I realised that that last part of Write from
Dictation and Spelling ( Realise != Realize) really impacted my score.

Please ensure you use ‘s’ instead of ‘z’.

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Camilo Uribe says:

November 8, 2018 at 12:16 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-6150)

There is a timer in the PTE or how can I measure my time?

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VJ says:
December 17, 2018 at 1:24 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-6787)

Hello, I need a guidance for crossing 79 mark, I am currently at 75 (appeared on 7-Dec-2018)

(Speaking 90, Writing 76, Listening and Reading 73 each). I have sent a separate email to your
team as well with my score report. I would highly appreciate if you could help me to achieve my
desired score.

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olivia says:
February 4, 2019 at 5:20 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-8178)

Hi there! Happy you reached out to the team!

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Babu Sk says:
December 18, 2018 at 10:14 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-6801)

Thanks .for your info Kia…Very Good …

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Omar Mohamed says:

May 16, 2019 at 3:40 am (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-13668)

Reaally frustrated with time

If affected alot my listening score in two different exams

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Mark says:
May 23, 2019 at 11:13 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-13778)

Really wish they had a separate timer for each question along with the overall timer. Then you can
easily see how much time you are spending on a question and where to move on. I find I don’t have
time to waste doing maths to figure out how much time I have spent on a question when I should
rather be focusing on the question at hand.

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RASHID says:
August 19, 2019 at 1:49 pm (https://blog.e2language.com/pte-time-management/#comment-18507)

Thanks for sharing

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