PTE Academic Reading 2

Question 1

In PTE Academic Reading 'Fill in the Blanks', where do you drag your answer options from?

Accepted Answer

A word bank below the passage

Answer

In Reading Fill in the Blanks, you drag words from a box below the passage into gaps within the text.

Question 2

A PTE Reading passage states: 'The study yielded _______ results, prompting researchers to abandon the hypothesis.' Which word best fits the blank?

Accepted Answer

inconclusive

Answer

Inconclusive results mean no clear conclusion was reached, which logically leads researchers to abandon a hypothesis.

Question 3

Which PTE Reading task awards partial credit — one point per correct blank — rather than all-or-nothing scoring?

Accepted Answer

Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks

Answer

Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks uses partial scoring, giving one point for each correctly filled blank.

Question 4

In a PTE passage about climate science, the phrase 'feedback loops amplify initial perturbations' most nearly means:

Accepted Answer

Processes that magnify a starting change

Answer

Amplify means to increase, so feedback loops make an initial disturbance larger.

Question 5

What is the primary reading skill tested by the PTE 'Re-order Paragraphs' task?

Accepted Answer

Understanding text cohesion and logical flow

Answer

Re-order Paragraphs tests whether you can recognize how ideas connect and flow logically across a text.

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