PTE Academic – Reading: 2.3 Re-order paragraphs

• Task : Several text boxes appear on screen in a random order. Put the text boxes in the correct order.
• Skills assessed : Reading
• Prompt length : Text up to 150 words

What is it?
You will be presented with several paragraphs in a random order on the left hand side with a blank space on the right hand side. You need to drag the paragraphs from the left side and put them in order into the blank space on the right hand side.

What is the prompt length?
The text could be up to 150 words

How are you judged?
Your reading skills

Tip:
Carefully read all the paragraphs. Generally, paragraphs with connectors and adverbs don’t come as a first paragraph. If you have ‘years’ mentioned in your paragraphs, the chronological order may help set you the paragraphs in the right order.

For this item type, you need to restore the original order of the text by selecting text boxes and dragging them across the screen.

There are two ways you can move the text:

1. Left-click on a box to select it (it will be outlined in blue), hold the left mouse button down and drag it to the desired location.
   
2. Left-click on a box to select it, and then left-click on the left and right arrow buttons to move it across. On the right panel, you can also use the up and down arrow buttons to re-order the boxes.

PTE Academic – Reading: 2.3 Re-order paragraphs – Test Tips

1- Read all the text boxes quickly before you start re-ordering them

Read the text boxes in order to understand the main idea of each one. You can do this by noting the key words.

Next, use the key words to form an overall idea of what the original text is about. This will help you find the logical order for the ideas in the text boxes:

2- Find the topic sentence first

Every well-written paragraph has a topic sentence. It is usually a clear statement about the topic, and all the other sentences are related in some way to this sentence.

The topic sentence can stand alone; it does not begin with a linker or a pronoun that refers back to something or someone (e.g., ‘he’ or ‘this’), nor does it does refer back to information or actions previously mentioned through the use of things like passive verb tenses (‘No link was found’):

3- How this question is scored

Your response for Re-order Paragraphs is judged on your ability to understand the organization and cohesion of an academic text. If all text boxes are in the correct order, you receive the maximum score points for this question type. If one or more text boxes are in the wrong order, partial credit scoring applies.

Note

• This question type affects the scoring of only reading.
• Your listening, speaking and writing skills are not tested by this question type.
• For more information download the Score Guide.

PTE Academic – Reading – Re-order paragraphs – Test Format

This Reading section requires the test takers to give an order to the jumbled sentences in the form of a paragraph. The computer screen displays a few text boxes having mixed up sentences. The total word count of the sentences is no more than 150 words. The correct adjacent text box awards 1 mark.

This test is meant to assess the candidates’ reading comprehension, vocabulary and understanding of the sentence structure as well as the capability to understand the chain of thought in the disorderly sentences. The test takers can select and drag the text boxes to the desired location with the help of left-click. For re-adjusting the selected sentences, the exam takers can also use up and down buttons. If they need to de-select a box, use left-click.

PTE Reading – Re order Paragraphs – Useful Tips

• Quick Reading :
  Quick reading of all the sentences will give you a general idea of the entire text and make your work easy. You can use this idea as a guideline for you organize the sentences.
  
• Search for the Topic Sentence
  A topic sentence contains an overall idea of the paragraph and is written usually in the form of statement. It does not have a pronoun or a linker that joins it to an earlier sentence. Try to find it out and place it in the beginning.
  
• Comprehend the Logical Order
  Remember the jumbled sentences are in fact broken parts of a logical, sequenced and intelligible paragraph. You need only to find out that sequence of thought and put the text boxes in order accordingly. The best help for you to you is to locate keywords while reading the text boxes. As the sentences are only few in numbers, you can read all of them twice and makeup your mind for their order. For this, keywords will prove immensely helpful to you.
  
• Do not Get Confused Difficult Vocabulary
  The sentences are usually very simple and there is hardly a difficult word used in the text. However, if you do not know the meaning of a word, try to guess it keeping in mind the other sentences.

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