Part 3: Listening

PTE Summarize Spoken Text practice

You hear a short lecture once and write a summary of it.

SST304 questions in our bank272 open in the practice screen

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304 Summarize Spoken Text questions in the RealPTE bank; 272 of them open directly in the practice screen. Practising is free; see Pricing for AI scoring.

Official format (Pearson)

Prompt	Recording of 60–90 seconds
Time to answer	10 minutes to listen and write
Skills assessed	Listening, Writing
Scored on	Content; Form; Grammar; Vocabulary; Spelling

How it is scored

Full Form credit at 50–70 words; under 40 or over 100 words scores zero.
A response that misses the topic scores zero on every trait.
Partial credit applies: a partly correct response still scores.
Traits are scored by AI; a human expert also reviews Content before the score is final.
The recording plays only once.
You can take notes while you listen.

Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 3: Listening, checked 9 October 2026.

Most marked "I sat this"

#130001Books1,013 students marked "I sat this"#130002Paying off Student Loan364 students marked "I sat this"#130003Sound Receptors248 students marked "I sat this"#130004The Secret Life of Bees (Female novelist)175 students marked "I sat this"#130031Music and Language171 students marked "I sat this"#130005Sea Creatures and Wave Power123 students marked "I sat this"#130007Language Death115 students marked "I sat this"#130006Krebs81 students marked "I sat this"#130221Human freedom in business81 students marked "I sat this"#130011Kids in Museum80 students marked "I sat this"#130010Voynich Manuscript71 students marked "I sat this"#130012Drug Ads67 students marked "I sat this"#130047Industrialization66 students marked "I sat this"#130009Water65 students marked "I sat this"#130020Agriculture and Urbanization Version 164 students marked "I sat this"#130008Spectacles63 students marked "I sat this"#130021Amory Lovins63 students marked "I sat this"#130043Smile of Mothers and Their Babies61 students marked "I sat this"#130044Emotions60 students marked "I sat this"#130080Human rights in UK59 students marked "I sat this"

All 304 Summarize Spoken Text questions

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#130001Books1,013 students marked "I sat this"#130002Paying off Student Loan364 students marked "I sat this"#130003Sound Receptors248 students marked "I sat this"#130004The Secret Life of Bees (Female novelist)175 students marked "I sat this"#130005Sea Creatures and Wave Power123 students marked "I sat this"#130006Krebs81 students marked "I sat this"#130007Language Death115 students marked "I sat this"#130008Spectacles63 students marked "I sat this"#130009Water65 students marked "I sat this"#130010Voynich Manuscript71 students marked "I sat this"#130011Kids in Museum80 students marked "I sat this"#130012Drug Ads67 students marked "I sat this"#130013Industrial revolution Version 140 students marked "I sat this"#130014Industrial Revolution Version 244 students marked "I sat this"#130015Fossil Fuels44 students marked "I sat this"#130016Living Things39 students marked "I sat this"#130017Indian Debt Version144 students marked "I sat this"#130018Mary Mallon38 students marked "I sat this"#130019Marshmallow Test27 students marked "I sat this"#130020Agriculture and Urbanization Version 164 students marked "I sat this"#130021Amory Lovins63 students marked "I sat this"#130022ATM27 students marked "I sat this"#130023Citizenship Curriculum42 students marked "I sat this"#130024Cocoa22 students marked "I sat this"#130025Human Immigration22 students marked "I sat this"#130026Environmental Law32 students marked "I sat this"#130027Globalization50 students marked "I sat this"#130028Government Power20 students marked "I sat this"#130029Indian Debt Version222 students marked "I sat this"#130030Livable Planet19 students marked "I sat this"#130031Music and Language171 students marked "I sat this"#130032Stanford University19 students marked "I sat this"#130033Talent Version 117 students marked "I sat this"#130034Vitamin D57 students marked "I sat this"#130035Welsh Language9 students marked "I sat this"#130036Talent26 students marked "I sat this"#130037Light Bulb13 students marked "I sat this"#130038Translator and Interpretor27 students marked "I sat this"#130039Cool Bees Pick Warmer Flowers23 students marked "I sat this"#130040Laughter as a Therapy57 students marked "I sat this"#130041Chocolate47 students marked "I sat this"#130042Global Warming43 students marked "I sat this"#130043Smile of Mothers and Their Babies61 students marked "I sat this"#130044Emotions60 students marked "I sat this"#130045Children's Literature12 students marked "I sat this"#130046Universities' Competition23 students marked "I sat this"#130047Industrialization66 students marked "I sat this"#130048Food and Income23 students marked "I sat this"#130049Children’s depression21 students marked "I sat this"#130050Animal Survive25 students marked "I sat this"#130051The City of Rome21 students marked "I sat this"#130052Crops affect Climate21 students marked "I sat this"#130053Identity Theory10 students marked "I sat this"#130054Canned food23 students marked "I sat this"#130055Biology, DNA & RNA21 students marked "I sat this"#130056Development Of Genes19 students marked "I sat this"#130057Language acquisition13 students marked "I sat this"#130058Language in vocabulary21 students marked "I sat this"#130059Vitamin D Version 224 students marked "I sat this"#130061Governments Use Tricks16 students marked "I sat this"#130062Einstein22 students marked "I sat this"#130064Artificial intelligence9 students marked "I sat this"#130065Misunderstanding of Globalization9 students marked "I sat this"#130066Tea and Coffee in England12 students marked "I sat this"#130071The Definition of Risk16 students marked "I sat this"#130072Implicit and explicit memories3 students marked "I sat this"#130073Big Bang Theory19 students marked "I sat this"#130075Obese Women27 students marked "I sat this"#130076The decline of Bees17 students marked "I sat this"#130078Smart Consumers and Brand5 students marked "I sat this"#130079Misuse of drugs10 students marked "I sat this"#130080Human rights in UK59 students marked "I sat this"#130081Australian Housing Price55 students marked "I sat this"#130082HTML8 students marked "I sat this"#130083Sign language6 students marked "I sat this"#130084Genes affect human behaviors5 students marked "I sat this"#130085Pandemic Transmitting13 students marked "I sat this"#130086London Architecture25 students marked "I sat this"#130087Industrialization and Adam Smith6 students marked "I sat this"#130088Water Purification3 students marked "I sat this"#130089Agriculture and Urbanization4 students marked "I sat this"#130090What makes people happy38 students marked "I sat this"#130093Parenting Babies0 students marked "I sat this"#130100Theatre Study0 students marked "I sat this"#130101Facial recognition40 students marked "I sat this"#130107Marry Mallon Version 28 students marked "I sat this"#130108Habitat Loss6 students marked "I sat this"#130111Newspapers8 students marked "I sat this"#130114Telescope5 students marked "I sat this"#130115Chimpanzees19 students marked "I sat this"#130120Types of Stress5 students marked "I sat this"#130121Globalization & De-traditionalisation4 students marked "I sat this"#130124What happened to journalism1 student marked "I sat this"#130125Multiculturalism0 students marked "I sat this"#130127Cultural Absolutism12 students marked "I sat this"#130128Network of Transportation in Paris7 students marked "I sat this"#130129Semantic Noise3 students marked "I sat this"#130130Applications in Biology13 students marked "I sat this"#130131Mars and earth11 students marked "I sat this"#130132History of Software10 students marked "I sat this"