Fill In Blanks Listening Study Guide

May 27, 2019PTE APEUni
STUDYGUIDE Fill in Blank (R & W)
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About


Test takers will usually hear a audio clip and see a textual passage with blanks, beforerequired to write a correct word down in each blank according to the audio clip. This question type usually consists of 2 or 3 tasks.


Tips


LFIB, one of the key question types in the Listening Section, deserves great effort to guarantee correctness rate..

In real tests, intervals between two blanks are usually very small, so shorten your typing and keep up with the audio. Thus there is no need to type the word completely once your hear it, because you can take your time to finish it after the audio ends.

Note: Press the key of Tab to quickly jump to next blank.


Time Span

Despite LFIB’s significance in terms of points in the Listening Section, do not spend too much time in it, 2 minutes at most for each task.


Practice Goal

WHV: Test takers for WHV do not have to pay much attention to this question type.


50 points: Achieve a correctness rate of 50% or above.


65 points: For each task, try to limit errors to 1, never above 2; or on average within 1.5 errors for each 5 blanks.


79 points: Try to limit errors within 1 for each task.


Practice Task

Intensively practicing WFD questions is enough, which helps to imporve abilities for FIB.