PTE Summarize Written Text practice
You get 10 minutes to sum up a passage in one sentence of 5 to 75 words. Break either rule and the summary scores zero.
By Thanh Tran, PTE and IELTS coach
Updated
Part 1 of 3: Speaking and writing
Write your answer in the box.
Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence. Type your response in the box at the bottom of the screen. Write your answer in 5 to 75 words. You have 10 minutes to finish this task.
Many cities are planting more street trees to cope with hotter summers. Shade from a mature tree cools the pavement below it, so nearby buildings need less air conditioning. The benefit depends on choosing species that survive local soil and drought.
Cities are planting more trees to cool their streets, which lowers summer temperatures and energy use, although the benefit depends on choosing trees that survive local conditions.
27 words5 to 75 words
Key facts
Time
Passage
Your answer
In a test
Skills scored
Scores zero if
Questions to practise
What it is worth
7%of your overall score
- Writing
- 28% of the skill score
- Reading
- 23% of the skill score
How it's scored
In Pearson's rules, a summary that isn't one sentence of 5 to 75 words gets 0 for form, and that makes all four traits zero.
Leap Exam checks form by the same rule, then scores content, grammar and vocabulary.
Your first writing score is free.
Writing, Summarize Written Text
Question 4 of 10
7 / 9
- Content
- 3 / 4
- Form
- 1 / 1
- Grammar
- 2 / 2
- Vocabulary
- 1 / 2
How well you capture the main ideas, in your own words.
One sentence of 5 to 75 words, not in capital letters.
A correct sentence structure.
Suitable word choice, with few errors.
An example grade: form is 1 or 0, and a 0 would make all four traits zero.
Build one sentence
Pearson's advice is a compound or complex sentence: the main point, with the key supporting detail joined to it.
Use your own words, because a summary made of copied pieces scores low on content.
Read the passage and find its topic and main point.
Note two or three key supporting points in a few words each.
Write the main point as a short clause in your own words.
Add each supporting point with a linking word such as which, while, because or although.
Check for one capital letter at the start, one full stop at the end, and 5 to 75 words.
One sentence, three ideas, 27 words
Cities are planting more trees to cool their streets, which lowers summer temperatures and energy use, although the benefit depends on choosing trees that survive local conditions.
Common mistakes
Writing two sentences
Going over 75 words
Missing the main point
If you get the topic or purpose of the passage wrong, the summary scores zero.Copying long pieces of the passage
Writing in capital letters
常见问题
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