Part 1: Speaking & Writing

PTE Summarize Written Text practice

You read a passage and write a summary of it in a single sentence.

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184 Summarize Written Text questions in the RealPTE bank; 184 of them open directly in the practice screen. Practising is free; see Pricing for AI scoring.

Official format (Pearson)

PromptText up to 300 words
Time to answer10 minutes
Skills assessedReading, Writing
Scored onContent; Form; Grammar; Vocabulary

How it is scored

  • Write one sentence of 5–75 words; fewer than 5 or more than 75 words scores zero.
  • A response that misses the topic scores zero on every trait.

Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 1: Speaking & Writing, checked 9 October 2026.

Most marked "I sat this"

#060001Aging: Australia and Japan1,441 students marked "I sat this"#060002Comparative advantage431 students marked "I sat this"#060003Diasporas290 students marked "I sat this"#060042Malaysia249 students marked "I sat this"#060041Voting in the UK221 students marked "I sat this"#060004Nobel Prize208 students marked "I sat this"#060116Benefit of Honey to athletes206 students marked "I sat this"#060040Skip Breakfast184 students marked "I sat this"#060005The City of London157 students marked "I sat this"#060180Social networks136 students marked "I sat this"#060018Wine industry126 students marked "I sat this"#060125Observation other people123 students marked "I sat this"#060029Tree ring120 students marked "I sat this"#060006Beauty Contest in Australia119 students marked "I sat this"#060021Computer programming America vs India111 students marked "I sat this"#060124Fallow fields for farming110 students marked "I sat this"#060008Children watching TV99 students marked "I sat this"#060123Panda in China99 students marked "I sat this"#060122Academic networking97 students marked "I sat this"#060007Technology prediction96 students marked "I sat this"

All 184 Summarize Written Text questions

Page 1 of 2: #060001 to #060101, by question number.

#060001Aging: Australia and Japan1,441 students marked "I sat this"#060002Comparative advantage431 students marked "I sat this"#060003Diasporas290 students marked "I sat this"#060004Nobel Prize208 students marked "I sat this"#060005The City of London157 students marked "I sat this"#060006Beauty Contest in Australia119 students marked "I sat this"#060007Technology prediction96 students marked "I sat this"#060008Children watching TV99 students marked "I sat this"#060009Namibia independence64 students marked "I sat this"#060010Armed Police93 students marked "I sat this"#060011Grass and cow85 students marked "I sat this"#060012Songbird44 students marked "I sat this"#060013Parents’ Born Order Effects Version 150 students marked "I sat this"#060014Lifestyle in Country55 students marked "I sat this"#060015Napping Version 136 students marked "I sat this"#060016Napping Version 234 students marked "I sat this"#060017House mice30 students marked "I sat this"#060018Wine industry126 students marked "I sat this"#060019South African Version 142 students marked "I sat this"#060020Non-human animals and humans49 students marked "I sat this"#060021Computer programming America vs India111 students marked "I sat this"#060022Australian education34 students marked "I sat this"#060023Tourism industry83 students marked "I sat this"#060024Demand for talent19 students marked "I sat this"#060025Aging world32 students marked "I sat this"#060026The study of human remains15 students marked "I sat this"#060027Why business is like pebbles in a pond17 students marked "I sat this"#060028South Euclid school bullying project18 students marked "I sat this"#060029Tree ring120 students marked "I sat this"#060030Greenhouse Gas Version 114 students marked "I sat this"#060031Geothermal energy9 students marked "I sat this"#060032Written language8 students marked "I sat this"#060033Working environment9 students marked "I sat this"#060034Australian Indigenous Food4 students marked "I sat this"#060035Plants Research8 students marked "I sat this"#060036Paleolithic People7 students marked "I sat this"#060037Wright Brothers Version 14 students marked "I sat this"#0600382014 Olympic12 students marked "I sat this"#060039Museology48 students marked "I sat this"#060040Skip Breakfast184 students marked "I sat this"#060041Voting in the UK221 students marked "I sat this"#060042Malaysia249 students marked "I sat this"#060043Electric eels11 students marked "I sat this"#060044Negotiation7 students marked "I sat this"#060045Government & Democracy6 students marked "I sat this"#060046Purple Loosestrife Invasion2 students marked "I sat this"#060047Royal Agricultural Society8 students marked "I sat this"#060048Wright Brothers Version 229 students marked "I sat this"#060049The booksellers27 students marked "I sat this"#060050What Great managers do? Version 18 students marked "I sat this"#060051American English dominance12 students marked "I sat this"#060052Cyberbullying12 students marked "I sat this"#060053Methods for delivering packages19 students marked "I sat this"#060054Orbital Debris7 students marked "I sat this"#060055Frog amber29 students marked "I sat this"#060056Double Blind8 students marked "I sat this"#060057Experimental Treatment6 students marked "I sat this"#060058Environmental sustainability9 students marked "I sat this"#060059The Benefits of Honey Version113 students marked "I sat this"#060060Plug-in vehicle/Electronic car35 students marked "I sat this"#060061Electric cars5 students marked "I sat this"#060062Volcanic Mountain3 students marked "I sat this"#060063Columbus Version 112 students marked "I sat this"#060064The Rosetta Stone Version 120 students marked "I sat this"#060065Brain research in twins41 students marked "I sat this"#060066Nurse sharks9 students marked "I sat this"#060067Change in food and eating in Australian8 students marked "I sat this"#060068Overqualified worker7 students marked "I sat this"#060069Presidential election6 students marked "I sat this"#060070What makes a city great?3 students marked "I sat this"#060071Autism7 students marked "I sat this"#060072Treatments for eyes1 student marked "I sat this"#060073American English16 students marked "I sat this"#060074Online learning9 students marked "I sat this"#060075Different experience in reading and watching TV13 students marked "I sat this"#060076The World Wide Web Version 137 students marked "I sat this"#060077TV-viewing habit6 students marked "I sat this"#060078Primary Carer7 students marked "I sat this"#060079Improvement in writing2 students marked "I sat this"#060080Crime rate7 students marked "I sat this"#060081The greatest climate change46 students marked "I sat this"#060082Story telling skills of African American Preschoolers0 students marked "I sat this"#060083Women Power3 students marked "I sat this"#060084The smallest star12 students marked "I sat this"#060085Language decay10 students marked "I sat this"#060086The Phoenician alphabet12 students marked "I sat this"#060087Multi-life7 students marked "I sat this"#060088Birds and Climate Change0 students marked "I sat this"#060089Start Active, Stay Active3 students marked "I sat this"#060090‘Take-all’ Disease9 students marked "I sat this"#060091Sunshine revolution: the age of solar power7 students marked "I sat this"#060093Brain research7 students marked "I sat this"#060094Uncovering Secrets of the Sphinx18 students marked "I sat this"#060095Parents’Born Order Effects Version 214 students marked "I sat this"#060096Lincoln’s Free Labor System8 students marked "I sat this"#060097Political Science9 students marked "I sat this"#060098Why the sky is dark?9 students marked "I sat this"#060099Brain5 students marked "I sat this"#060100prokaryotic and eukaryotic21 students marked "I sat this"#060101Renovation of Paris29 students marked "I sat this"