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Boost your listening and writing skills with PTE Write from Dictation Practice by accurately typing what you hear
PTE Write from Dictation is a PTE Listening task where you hear a short 3–5 second sentence that plays automatically once and type it exactly as spoken into the response box. It assesses your Listening & Writing skills across 3–4 questions and is marked using partial credit for each correct word.
You earn a point for each word you type correctly, so even a partial sentence scores. It feeds both Listening and Writing, which makes it one of the most valuable tasks in the test.
Feeds Listening & Writing · Academic & Core
Catch every word in the sentence on one play.
Type each word exactly — misspellings don't count.
Hold the whole sentence long enough to write it.
Follow these tips to accurately capture every word and excel in this task.
Concentrate on hearing the entire sentence without panicking. Understanding the full idea helps you reconstruct it accurately later.
Focus on nouns, verbs, numbers, and keywords while listening. These carry most of the meaning and scoring weight.
Mentally divide the sentence into small chunks. This makes long dictations easier to remember and type correctly, and you can strengthen this skill by practicing with a PTE exam mock test.
Small words like a, an, the, and plural endings matter. Many students lose marks due to these minor mistakes.
Always reread your sentence quickly. Fix spelling, capitalization, and missing words before clicking next. You can also practice this with a free PTE practice test online.
Use sentences similar in length and speed to the real exam. This improves memory control and confidence.
Why it counts twice, how partial credit works, and how to hold a long sentence.
3–4 per test, in both PTE Academic and PTE Core. Each sentence is 3–5 seconds long and plays once.
One point for every correct word, with partial credit, so a half-remembered sentence still scores. Spelling must be exact and there is no negative marking.
Yes. Marks contribute to both sections, which makes it one of the highest-value tasks in the test. Getting these sentences right lifts two scores at once.
Type the content words first, nouns and verbs, then fill in articles and endings from memory. Do not wait for the audio to finish before you start; type as you hear.
Break each sentence into two or three meaning chunks as you hear it and hold the chunks, not the words. Daily practice with sentences of increasing length builds this quickly.
Practice daily with exam-length sentences, always check articles, plurals and spelling before submitting, and compare your answer with the key to see which small words you keep dropping.
3–4 per test, in both PTE Academic and PTE Core. Each sentence is 3–5 seconds long and plays once.
One point for every correct word, with partial credit, so a half-remembered sentence still scores. Spelling must be exact and there is no negative marking.
Yes. Marks contribute to both sections, which makes it one of the highest-value tasks in the test. Getting these sentences right lifts two scores at once.
Type the content words first, nouns and verbs, then fill in articles and endings from memory. Do not wait for the audio to finish before you start; type as you hear.
Break each sentence into two or three meaning chunks as you hear it and hold the chunks, not the words. Daily practice with sentences of increasing length builds this quickly.
Practice daily with exam-length sentences, always check articles, plurals and spelling before submitting, and compare your answer with the key to see which small words you keep dropping.
