PTE Write From Dictation Practice: Original Sentences and Review

These sentences are original revision material, not predictions. Ask someone or a text-to-speech tool to read each once while the script is hidden. Type exactly what you hear.

Write From Dictation appears in Academic and Core. Pearson describes a 3 to 5 second sentence played once. Correct words and spelling earn content credit, with partial credit available. Pearson Academic Listening format Pearson Core Listening format

Original set

1. The seminar has moved to a larger room.
2. Most participants completed the survey before lunch.
3. The revised policy will affect several regional offices.
4. Researchers carefully recorded changes in soil temperature.
5. Students may borrow laboratory equipment with written permission.
6. The coastal reserve protects rare birds during their annual migration.
7. Although the forecast predicted rain, the fieldwork continued as planned.
8. New evidence has challenged the traditional explanation of the settlement.
9. The committee requested clearer figures before approving the final budget.
10. Regular maintenance reduces energy costs and prevents unexpected equipment failures.

How to reconstruct each sentence

For sentence 7, hold four chunks: Although the forecast / predicted rain / the fieldwork continued / as planned. The opening subordinate clause signals that a contrasting main clause will follow.

For sentence 9, content words may survive as committee, requested, figures, approving, budget. Restore grammar carefully: The committee requested clearer figures before approving the final budget. Do not change clearer to clear or approving to approval.

Complete answer key and traps

The bold lines above are the exact keys. Check:

• sentence 1: has moved, not moved
• sentence 3: plural offices
• sentence 4: adverb carefully
• sentence 6: possessive their, not there
• sentence 8: has challenged, not is challenging
• sentence 10: two coordinated verbs, reduces and prevents

Label every error as missed word, wrong order, grammar ending, spelling or added word. Repeat the sentence once after correction, then test the same weakness with a different line.

For the full method, see PTE Write From Dictation. Continue with Write from Dictation practice.

Turn one error into a drill

Suppose you type “Researcher carefully recorded change in soil temperature.” The missing plural endings are a grammar-and-listening pattern, not two unrelated mistakes. Write two new lines with the same contrast as a familiar correction drill: “Managers reviewed changes in regional budgets” and “Scientists measured differences between samples.”

Hear each once, type it, then scan only nouns and verb endings. Stop after a fresh sentence is exact. Repeating the original ten times mostly trains memory.

Confirm transfer with unseen audio

After the written correction drill, ask a partner or separate audio source to play a new sentence containing the same grammatical feature while its script remains hidden. Type it once, then reveal the script. The typed answer alone cannot show whether an ending was unheard or heard but misspelled, so compare the result with a second targeted listening item before choosing the next drill.

Sources

• Pearson PTE Academic Listening format.
• Pearson PTE Core Listening format.