Listening: Fill in the Blanks · Part 3: Listening
Economists
32 students marked "I sat this"Added 12 Nov 2019Question #150089
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An economist sees the world basically through a typical micro-economic 1. That involves things like thinking at the margin, rationality, opportunity cost, trade-offs. Economists like any other 2, rules, and its own way of seeing the world. So basically economics, or economists in general tend to apply micro-economic 3 like that to explain the way humans behave and to make 4 about the future.
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Listening: Fill in the Blanks format (Pearson)
Pearson's name: Fill in the Blanks (Type In)
| Prompt | Recording of 30–60 seconds |
|---|---|
| Time to answer | Not set per question (Part 3 lasts 31–39 minutes) |
| Skills assessed | Listening |
How it is scored
- Each correct word, spelled correctly, scores 1 point.
- The recording plays only once.
Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 3: Listening, checked 9 October 2026.