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PTE Highlight Correct Summary practice helps you learn how to listen to an audio recording and choose the summary that best matches its meaning. It improves your ability to understand key ideas and identify the most accurate interpretation.
In PTE Academic, Highlight Correct Summary is a listening and reading task where you listen to a short audio of 30- 90 seconds with 2-3 questions and select the summary that best represents the main ideas. You choose the correct option from multiple summaries. It assesses the listening and reading tasks. This task is not included in PTE Core, which has fewer question types. PTE Academic includes this question as part of its listening module to assess comprehension of detailed spoken information.
| Prompt Length | Skills Assessed | No. of Question |
|---|---|---|
| 30-90 Seconds | Listening & Reading | 2-3 |
These tips guide you on how to listen actively, take helpful notes, and choose the summary that truly reflects the speaker’s message.
You should give your full attention to the audio before looking at any summary options. Reading while listening divides your focus and makes you miss important information. When you listen first, you understand the meaning clearly, which helps you choose the correct summary more confidently.
Write short, meaningful notes such as keywords, names, numbers, and main points instead of full sentences. This saves time and keeps your attention on the audio. These quick notes help you match what you heard with the correct summary more easily.
Try to understand what the speaker is mainly talking about rather than focusing only on small details. The correct summary always reflects the central idea, not minor points. When you recognize the main message, eliminating wrong summaries becomes much easier.
Incorrect summaries often include ideas or details that the speaker never mentioned. Always check if the summary strictly matches your notes and the audio. If an option adds new information, it is almost always incorrect.
Read all the summaries after listening and compare each one with your notes. Look for the option that matches the order and meaning of the information you heard. This step helps you avoid choosing an option just because it sounds familiar.
Some wrong summaries use vocabulary from the audio to trick you, but they change the message slightly. Focus on meaning instead of matching words. The correct summary conveys the same idea even if different words are used.
If two summaries seem similar, choose the one that best represents the speaker’s main idea. Small differences in wording do not matter as much as the summary’s overall accuracy. Always select the option that matches the purpose and tone of the recording.
No. Highlight Correct Summary is available only in PTE Academic. PTE Core does not include this task in its exam structure.
PTE Academic has 8 listening question types, while PTE Core has 7, because Highlight Correct Summary is not part of the PTE Core exam.
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