Five speaking tasks.
A machine is listening to every sound.
- Free, no card
- Real task timings
- Every sound in IPA
- Original passages
Read this aloud at your normal pace, all the way to the end.
Coastal erosion is not a single process but several acting together. Waves remove material from the base of a cliff, rainfall weakens the rock above, and the unsupported section eventually collapses. Engineers can slow this with barriers, though sediment that would have moved along the coast is then trapped, and beaches further along begin to disappear instead.
Press record, read it aloud, then press again.
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Read Aloud is the closest match between this exam and sayit: the words are on screen, so the analysis can compare what you said against them, sound by sound.
What sayit can and cannot score
Two of the three criteria
sayit's band is an estimate built from two things a microphone can actually measure — fluency and pronunciation. Lexical resource and grammatical range are marked by a human examiner and are not measured here. For PTE that maps onto oral fluency and pronunciation. Content — whether you said the right words — is the third, and on Read Aloud we can check it against the passage, while on Repeat Sentence and Retell Lecture the source is hidden in the exam and cannot be hidden here.The five tasks
Read Aloud
About 30 to 40 seconds to prepare, then roughly 35 to 40 seconds to read.
A passage of up to about 60 words appears on screen. You get roughly 30 to 40 seconds to look at it, the microphone opens on its own, and you read the passage out loud.
Practise Read AloudRepeat Sentence
No preparation. The microphone opens immediately after the audio and records for about 15 seconds.
You hear a recorded sentence once, of roughly three to nine seconds, and you repeat it. Nothing appears on screen: the sentence exists only as audio.
Practise Repeat SentenceDescribe Image
25 seconds to prepare, then 40 seconds to speak.
A chart, graph, map or diagram appears on screen. You get 25 seconds to study it and then about 40 seconds to describe it.
Practise Describe ImageRetell Lecture
About 10 seconds to prepare after the audio ends, then 40 seconds to speak.
You listen to a lecture of up to 90 seconds, sometimes with an image on screen, and then retell it in your own words. There are one to two of these in a test and they contribute to both speaking and listening..
Practise Retell LectureAnswer Short Question
No preparation. Answer within about 10 seconds of the question ending.
You hear a short general-knowledge question and answer it in one or a few words. There are five to six of these in a test, they take a few seconds each, and they contribute to both speaking and listening..
Practise Short QuestionStraight answers
How is PTE Speaking scored?
By machine, on three things for most tasks: content, oral fluency and pronunciation. Content is whether you said the right words; fluency is an even pace with no hesitation or repetition; pronunciation is whether each sound is close enough to a standard English target for the recogniser to place it.
Which speaking task is worth the most?
Read Aloud, because there are six or seven of them and the same recording feeds your reading score as well as your speaking score. It is also the most practisable, since the words are on screen.
What can sayit practise for PTE?
Two of the three criteria. It scores every sound against its target and reports your pace, your pauses and your filler count. It does not have Pearson's scoring model, and for the tasks where the exam hides the source from you, it cannot hide it either — so those pages practise delivery on a script you can see, and say so.
Does an accent lower a PTE score?
A first-language accent is fine; an unrecognisable sound is not. The scoring is built around whether the automated recogniser can place each sound, which is why word endings and consonant clusters matter more here than they feel like they should.
Is PTE easier than IELTS?
Different rather than easier. PTE is machine-scored and rewards clarity, consistency and saying every word on screen; IELTS Speaking is a human conversation that rewards development and range. Candidates who dislike being interviewed often prefer PTE, and candidates who lose marks to a flat delivery often do not.
Find the sounds costing you marks
Record one passage and read the per-sound breakdown — the word endings and clusters an automated scorer hears as a mismatch. Free, nothing blurred.