PTE Listening Multiple Choice Single Answer Practice 2026
Listening Multiple Choice, Single Answer plays a recording and asks one question with a single correct option.
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Multiple Choice (Single Answer) at a glance
- Questions in the exam
- 1–2
- Timing
- 30–60s audio
- Skills scored
- Listening
- Marking on PTEAce
- Marked instantly with answers
- Share of PTE Academic score
- About <1%
Tips
- Read the question before the audio begins.
- Listen for the main idea and the speaker's purpose.
- Rule out options that are only partly true.
FAQs
Is there negative marking in Listening MCSA?
No.
Can I replay the audio?
No. The audio plays once in the real exam.
More Listening practice
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- Highlight Incorrect Words — Click each word in the transcript that doesn't match audio.; 2–3 in the exam; 15–50s audio; tests Listening, Reading; about 4% of the Academic score; marked instantly. Highlight Incorrect Words study guide
- Write from Dictation — Type the sentence you hear, word-for-word.; 3–4 in the exam; 3–5s audio; tests Listening, Spelling, Vocabulary; about 5% of the Academic score; marked instantly. Write from Dictation study guide
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