Don’t trip on these Common Mistakes in PTE Exam
PTE is one of the most taken exam especially in Australia and also the easiest one. However, the question arises that if PTE is so easy to do why students fail so many times and have to repeat it numerous times. The answer lies in small things that students overlook while attempting PTE. Here at Englishfirm we have made PTE aspirants life easy by pointing the common mistakes that students usually make and how to avoid these mistake in future to get their perfect. Here is a lost of few of those slipups.
1. Stopping at full stops and commas: What students fail to realize is that PTE is checked by software and software has its algorithm to allot marks to a candidate and stopping at punctuation is one the major blunder that students perform.
2. Skipping Repeat Sentences: This is one of the major mistake that students make is skipping repeat sentences when they are unable to get the sentence clearly making them loose marks for one of the most important task in PTE.
3. Overanalyzing Image: PTE is a general English test and is not aiming to test analysis skills of a candidate by overanalyzing image a student is at a risk of loosing points due to error in fluency and pronunciation.
4. Grammatical and Spelling Errors: Students focus too much on paraphrasing summarizes written text and loose sight of an overall picture causing them shortage in time.
5. Wrong Keyword: There have been many cases where an aspirant picked wrong keywords for his/her essay and ended up with zero marks for content.
6. Improper Time Management: Reading being the most tedious task in PTE has caused many test takers to miss out on their score as they end up spending more time on unimportant questions instead of important ones.
7. Task Priority: Many a times test takers have given less important question a higher priority in comparison to important ones especially in case of Section 2 as only three tasks out of seven are significant in listening.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 6.10837438424 0% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 8.36945812808 167% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 5.94088669951 185% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 20.9802955665 114% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 31.9359605911 175% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2011.0 1207.87684729 166% => OK
No of words: 400.0 242.827586207 165% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0275 5.00649968141 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 3.92707691288 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.60471566146 2.71678728327 133% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 139.433497537 158% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55 0.580463131201 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 607.5 379.143842365 160% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.6157635468 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 3.65517241379 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.5024630542 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.172877259 50.4703680194 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.066666667 104.977214359 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6666666667 20.9669160288 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.26666666667 7.25397266985 31% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 11.0 4.12807881773 266% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 2.75862068966 290% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.148799523063 0.242375264174 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0533237278284 0.0925447433944 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.061015637914 0.071462118173 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0497216147499 0.151781067708 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0644178231375 0.0609392437508 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 12.6369458128 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.1260098522 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.9458128079 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 11.5310837438 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.32886699507 107% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 55.0591133005 185% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.94827586207 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.3980295567 119% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.