Summarize Written Text

The PTE summarize written text section of the exam is designed to test both your writing and your reading skills. You will be reading a piece of text that is between 150 and 200 words in length. This is typically broken down into a few shorter paragraphs. Once you read the text you will be required to summarize it into a single sentence. That sentence must be grammatically correct including vocabulary and punctuation. It must make sense to the reader. It also must summarize all of the most important content from the text so someone would know what it was about without reading it.

PTE Core

PTE Academic

PTE Writing-Summarize Written Text

In Summarize Written Text, students must craft a one-sentence summary of a given passage within a 75-word limit, evaluating their Reading and Writing skills. They have 10 minutes to ensure the summary encapsulates the main points of the passage concisely.

Task	Skills Assessed	Prompt Length	Time to Answer	Number of Questions
After reading a text, write a one-sentence summary of the passage	Reading and Writing	Text up to 300 words	10 minutes	1 - 2

Task	After reading a text, write a one-sentence summary of the passage
Skills Assessed	Reading and Writing
Prompt Length	Text up to 300 words
Time to Answer	10 minutes
Number of Questions	1 - 2

PTE Writing-Summarize Written Text

Task	Skills Assessed	Prompt Length	Time to Answer	Number of Questions
After reading a text, write a one-sentence summary of the passage	Reading and Writing	Text up to 300 words	10 minutes	1 - 2

Task	After reading a text, write a one-sentence summary of the passage
Skills Assessed	Reading and Writing
Prompt Length	Text up to 300 words
Time to Answer	10 minutes
Number of Questions	1 - 2