- Task : After reading a text, answer a multiple-choice question on the content or tone of the text by selecting more than one response.
- Skills : assessed Reading
- Prompt length : Text up to 300 words
Multiple -choice, multiple answers:
What is it?
You will be presented with a passage. You need to go through the text carefully. Down to the text is a question with multiple options. You need to select (by clicking) more than one option that you think are the right answers.
What is the prompt length?
The text could be up to 300 words
How are you judged?
Your reading skills
Tip:
Read the question first so that you know what you should focus on. After having a glance at the question and the options, start reading the text. Choose more than one option which you think are right.
Alert:
On an average, you should not be spending more than 2 minutes on each question
For this item type you need to read the passage and answer the multiple-choice question. There is more than one correct response.
You need to select all the response options that you think are correct from the list of possible options.
To select an option click on it using the left button on your mouse. If you change your mind, left-click on the option again to deselect it.
The options you select are highlighted in yellow.
PTE Academic – Reading: 2.2 Multiple choice, multiple answer – Test tips
1- Make sure you know how the task is scored
Read the instructions carefully. Remember that more than one option is correct in this type of multiple choice item. You will score marks for any correct options but you will lose score points for any incorrect options. These include: options that you have clicked on as correct but which are wrong. If you click on all the options, because you do not know the answer, you will lose score points. This applies to Multiple choice, choose multiple answers item types for reading and listening.
2- Note any repeated words in the options
Quickly read through the response options and note any words that are repeated, particularly adjectives (e.g., ‘multigrade’) or nouns (e.g., ‘classes’). If the same noun phrase occurs in a lot of the options, the answer is probably related to this phrase.
Scan the text for the repeated words. Then read around them to find the answer more quickly:
3- How this question is scored
Your response for Multiple-choice, Choose Multiple Answers is judged on your ability to analyze, interpret and evaluate a short reading text on an academic subject. If all response are correct, you receive the maximum score points for this question type. If one or more response options are incorrect, partial credit scoring applies. This is the first of three question types where you can lose points if you choose any incorrect options. For any wrong options chosen 1 point is deducted, whilst correct options are given 1 point. Make sure you are confident in your choices.
Note
- This question type affects the scoring of reading.
- Your listening, speaking and writing skills are not tested by this question type.
- For more information download the Score Guide.
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