What are the highest scoring questions in PTE Academic?
Since the August 2025 exam changes, these 5 PTE questions carry the most weight in your final score — and most test-takers are still practicing the old priorities.
Optimize your prep by prioritizing the highest-weight sections!
The top 5 highest-weighted PTE questions (new scoring): 1. Describe Image — 15% of your final score (now with human assessment) 2. Summarize Group Discussion — new task added August 2025 3. Repeat Sentence — 10–12 per test, scores Speaking + Listening 4. Summarize Written Text — 7% of your exam score 5. Write Essay — 7% of your exam score
Why did PTE scoring change? The August 2025 update added new question types (Summarize Group Discussion, Respond to a Situation) and introduced a human assessment layer on Describe Image — meaning repeated templates can now get you failed by a human assessor, not just the computer.
How do you score high on these questions?
Prioritize your practice time by scoring weight, not task order. Describe Image and Repeat Sentence alone deserve daily practice — they're worth more than several smaller tasks combined.
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRANSCRIPT: Do you know what are the five most highly weighted questions in the PT academic exam since the new changes in August 2025? I'll give you a couple seconds. Try to guess number five. Number five, coming right up. We got writing essay. So, writing the essay is worth 7% in your final exam. This is the new changes. Can you guess number four? Number four, a couple more seconds. And for number four, we have summarize written text, which is going to be a total of 7% of your new exam scoring. Number three, couple seconds. Three, two, you probably got it right. Is going to be our repeat sentences. It's repeat sentence still one of the most important questions. We've always been talking about it. So, it's important you practice these every day because you have a lot of them in your exam. You'll be getting 10 to 12 in your test. Can you guess number two? Number two coming right up in 3 2 1 we got summarize group discussion. So this is in the speaking section. This is one of the new questions added in August. It's very important you do it well. It's a long one. You need to practice. There's many different speakers and you need to know the tricks of how to take notes in order to answer effectively. So check out this video that we have already on this topic. And finally number one. For number one we have can you guess it? Three, two, one. We have still describe image. For describe image, not only is it worth 15% of your final score, but you also have a new layer of human assessment. So, you cannot use the same template over and over again for all the images, and you need to use a flexible language pattern that you can adapt for different types of pictures. So, make sure to practice these five questions. And if you want to know what the rest of the scoring looks like, check out a free page we built that explains the new marking breakdown for everything in PTE since the new exam changes. Here it is. We'll put the link down below. Check it out. It's totally free. See you.