PTE Academic Full Mock Test 8
PTE Academic Full Mock Test 8 is a premium, fully timed run through the whole PTE Academic exam: Speaking, Writing, Reading and Listening in the Pearson order, with 63 questions across 20 task types. Speaking answers are scored from your real voice for pronunciation, fluency and emphasis, writing against the official PTE criteria, and reading and listening instantly, so you finish with a full enabling-skills score report.
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What's in this test
| Repeat Sentence | 11 questions | expert scored |
| Read Aloud | 6 questions | expert scored |
| Describe Image | 5 questions | expert scored |
| Answer Short Question | 5 questions | expert scored |
| Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks | 5 questions | Instant |
| Reading: Fill in the Blanks | 4 questions | Instant |
| Write from Dictation | 3 questions | Instant |
| Re-tell Lecture | 2 questions | expert scored |
| Summarize Written Text | 2 questions | expert scored |
| Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers | 2 questions | Instant |
| Re-order Paragraphs | 2 questions | Instant |
| Multiple Choice, Single Answer | 2 questions | Instant |
| Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers | 2 questions | Instant |
| Listening: Fill in the Blanks | 2 questions | Instant |
| Highlight Correct Summary | 2 questions | Instant |
| Multiple Choice, Single Answer | 2 questions | Instant |
| Select Missing Word | 2 questions | Instant |
| Highlight Incorrect Words | 2 questions | Instant |
| Write Essay | 1 question | expert scored |
| Summarize Spoken Text | 1 question | expert scored |
Topics in PTE Academic Full Mock Test 8
What each section's passage, recording and prompt is about, in the order the tasks appear.
Speaking
- Read Aloud: Coral reefs' habitat and coastal protection value; Industrial Revolution's rapid societal change; Photosynthesis sustaining life on Earth; AI in everyday consumer devices; Magma chamber pressure and eruptions; Sleep's role in hormone regulation
- Describe Image: Average Monthly Rainfall in Four Cities; Global Renewable Energy Capacity Growth; University Student Enrolment by Faculty; Daily Time Spent on Activities by Teenagers; World Population Growth by Decade
- Re-tell Lecture: Urban heat islands and surface materials; Stages of memory: encoding, storage, retrieval
Writing
- Summarize Written Text: Circular economy for sustainable growth; Sleep as essential to wellbeing
- Write Essay: Universities: job market vs intellectual curiosity
Reading
- Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks: Monarch butterfly autumn migration to Mexico; Industrial Revolution's shift to steam-powered machinery; Coral reef ecology; Overcoming nervousness in public speaking; Sleep, cognition and brain waste clearance
- Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers: Urban green spaces; Antibiotic resistance
- Re-order Paragraphs: Fleming's contaminated petri dish; Great Wall of China's construction myth
- Reading: Fill in the Blanks: What determines a volcano's shape; Photosynthesis and chlorophyll; Study habits; Internet and society
- Multiple Choice, Single Answer: Behavioural economics; Honeybees
Listening
- Summarize Spoken Text: Coral reefs' biodiversity and food provision
- Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers: Industrial Revolution; Sleep science
- Listening: Fill in the Blanks: Volcanic cooling versus greenhouse gas emissions; Public speaking delivery techniques
- Highlight Correct Summary: Honeybees; Printing history
- Multiple Choice, Single Answer: Renewable energy; Urban planning
- Highlight Incorrect Words: Bird migration between breeding and feeding grounds; Brain energy use and neuron signalling
Sample questions from PTE Academic Full Mock Test 8
Two questions taken from this test, so you can see its level before you start. Nothing is scored here; in the test every response is scored with feedback.
Drag the right word from the box into each gap.
Volcanoes form when molten rock, known as magma, (1) ______ towards the Earth's surface. As pressure builds, the magma may (2) ______ through a vent, releasing gas, ash and lava. Over time, repeated eruptions can (3) ______ a towering cone. The shape of a volcano depends largely on the (4) ______ of the lava it produces, as thicker lava tends to create steeper slopes.
Word box: rises · erupt · build · composition · sinks · freeze · texture
Every correct gap earns a mark. The correct answer is shown in your review when you finish the test.
Read the sample audio transcript
Coral reefs are among the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth, yet they occupy less than one percent of the ocean floor. They support roughly a quarter of all marine species, providing food and shelter. However, rising sea temperatures cause coral bleaching, when corals expel the algae living in their tissues. Without these algae, corals lose their colour and primary energy source, eventually dying. Scientists warn that without significant reductions in carbon emissions, many reef systems could collapse within the next few decades.
Transcript for accessible preview. The timed test uses audio.
Listen to the lecture, then write a summary of what you heard.
In the real exam the audio plays once. Your summary is expert scored on content, form, grammar, vocabulary and spelling.
How hard is PTE Academic Full Mock Test 8?
Compared with the other 7 PTE Academic full mock tests on PTEMock, PTE Academic Full Mock Test 8 is about average. It ranks 6th of 8, where 1st is the easiest, but the 8 are close together on these measures, so it sits near the group average.
| Section | Difficulty | Rank of 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Speaking | About average | 6th |
| Writing | Harder than average | 7th |
| Reading | About average | 4th |
| Listening | Easier than average | 1st |
How this is measured: Each section is ranked against the same section of the other full mocks, then the four are averaged. It compares the material itself, not how other candidates scored.
For a step up, PTE Academic Full Mock Test 2 is the next hardest. To warm up first, PTE Academic Full Mock Test 1 is the next easiest.
How PTE Academic Full Mock Test 8 is scored
This test's 6 Read Aloud, 11 Repeat Sentence, 5 Describe Image and 2 Re-tell Lecture answers are scored from your recording: an acoustic engine measures pronunciation, oral fluency and prosody (emphasis), and content is checked against the official PTE criteria. Answer Short Question is marked right or wrong. Its 2 Summarize Written Text and 1 Write Essay responses are graded on content, form, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. Reading and listening are scored the moment you finish. Enter your email at the end and the report, with a word-level pronunciation heatmap and a targeted practice list, is emailed to you within minutes.