Reorder Paragraphs · Part 2: Reading
Medical education
6 students marked "I sat this"Added 18 Jun 2020Question #100215
Put the paragraphs in order.
- APrevious lecture courses in medicine had included a series given by Peter Mark Roget, then a physician at Manchester Infirmary (1804–8), but better known for his later Thesaurus
- BJordan, however, offered dissections as well as lectures, and medical education proved good business.
- CIn London the private anatomy schools, which had competed with each other for decades, became incorporated with the hospitals, but in the provinces private medical schools continued beyond 1870, using the hospitals for clinical teaching but not formally attached to them.
- DFormal medical education in Manchester began in 1814 when Joseph Jordan opened the first anatomy school in the English provinces.
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Reorder Paragraphs format (Pearson)
Pearson's name: Reorder Paragraph
| Prompt | Text up to 110 words |
|---|---|
| Time to answer | Not set per question (Part 2 lasts 23–30 minutes) |
| Skills assessed | Reading |
How it is scored
- Partial credit applies: a partly correct response still scores.
Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 2: Reading, checked 9 October 2026.