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  Understanding the PTE Writing Task What You’re Up Against The writing component of PTE Academic (or comparable PTE writing tasks) includes two sub-tasks: summarizing written text and writing an essay.   For the essay portion: you’ll typically receive a prompt (2–3 sentences) and need to write an essay of 200–300 words within 20 minutes . Your essay will be evaluated on multiple dimensions: Content — how well you address the prompt and develop arguments. Formal requirements (form) — meeting the word count and essay structure (introduction, body, conclusion). Development, Structure & Coherence — organization of ideas, logical flow, paragraphing, linking.   Grammar, Vocabulary / Linguistic Range, Spelling — varied vocab, correct grammar and spelling, sentence variety. To hit a “perfect” or very high writing score (e.g. “90/90” in writing, or generally top band), you need to excel across all these criteria. That’s where a well-crafted essay template + good st...

If you’re preparing for the speaking section of the PTE Academic (or PTE Core), mastering the “Describe Image” (DI) task is a must. In this guide — updated for 2026 — we’ll walk you through what the task involves, how the template works, scoring criteria, common mistakes to avoid, and practical advice for success. This draws heavily on the template and insights from the recent post “PTE Describe Image Template 2025 – Practice with 50 Examples” from Gurully What is “Describe Image” in PTE? The Describe Image task is one of the speaking prompts in PTE. In this task: You are shown an image, which could be a chart (bar, line, pie), a graph, a table, a map, a diagram, a process flow, or even just a photo You have 25 seconds to prepare (study the image and jot down notes), then your microphone will open for ~40 seconds to describe what you see.   There are usually 5–6 questions of this type in the PTE Academic version.   Because you have very limited time (both to prepare and t...