Reading: Fill in the Blanks · Part 2: Reading

Gauss

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Gauss was a child prodigy. There are many 1 concerning his precocity as a child, and he made his first ground-breaking mathematical 2 while still a teenager. At just three years old, he 3 an error in his father payroll calculations, and he was looking after his father’s accounts on a regular 4 by the age of 5. At the age of 7, he is reported to have amazed his teachers by summing the integers from 1 to 100 almost instantly (having quickly spotted that the sum was actually 50 pairs of numbers, with each pair summing to 101, total 5,050). By the age of 12, he was already attending gymnasium and criticizing Euclid’s geometry.

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Pearson's name: Fill in the Blanks (Drag and Drop)

PromptText up to 80 words
Time to answerNot set per question (Part 2 lasts 23–30 minutes)
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Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 2: Reading, checked 9 October 2026.