PTE Writing: Practice Questions - 11 | Practice Tests for PTE PDF Download

Summarize Written Text

You need to summarize the passage given below. In the exam, you will have 10 minutes to complete this task. Your response will be assessed on how well you capture the essential points of the passage and the clarity of your writing.
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Q1: "My boss is the best". That's a phrase most of us have said or heard at some point, but what does it mean? What sets the 'best' boss apart from the 'average' boss? There are many descriptions about the qualities of managers and leaders and whether the two differ, but little has been said about what makes a manager great or best, and how he is able to win over his employees and at the same time get the work done. How do great managers actually work?

The first and the foremost thing is that they discover what special quality each person working under them has and then capitalize on this uniqueness. This can be explained with the analogy of playing checkers and chess. Average managers play checkers, while great managers play chess. How are these two games different? In checkers, all the pieces are uniform and move in the same way; they are interchangeable. Only one needs to plan and coordinate their movements. In chess, each type of piece moves in a different way. And to win one has to think carefully about how one moves the pieces. Great managers recognize and value the uniqueness and even the eccentricities of their employees, and they learn how best to utilize them.

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Q2: Our heritage encircles all those aspects of our past and present like cultures, traditions, rights, etc. that we give importance and want to share with our future generations. This may include both our personal heritage and national or state heritage. So, we all are caretakers of heritage, either it is family memorabilia or the wider community's inheritance from past generations that are managed by our governments on our behalf. Heritage can focus on places, artifacts, photographs, films, documents, landscapes or natural features. Heritage is much more than tangible objects. Stories, events, values and ideas, cultural and religious practices all are significant aspects of heritage.

In recent years, much attention is given to the importance of national heritage. The National Trust of Australia is raising awareness of the value of and the risk to their heritage. So they have recently started a unique program "Our Heritage at Risk" which is incomparable to its former "Endangered Places" program. The Heritage Branch of the "Department for Environment and Heritage" is working on what is often known as 'built heritage' and 'Natural and aboriginal heritage'. Built heritage includes in it buildings, structures and places as well as maritime heritage, which have shipwrecks and whaling and sailing sites.

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Write Essay

You will have 20 minutes to plan, write and revise an essay about the topic below. Carefully read the statement below and write an essay in response. A sample essay is available for you to review by clicking on the "View Answer" button.
Your essay will be evaluated based on how effectively you develop your position, organize your ideas, provide supporting details, and adhere to the conventions of standard written English. Aim for a word count between 200-300 words.

Q1: A successful man is not the one who has ability to eliminate problems before they occur, but the one who can face the difficulties as they arise and solve them.
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with this statement.
Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience or observations.

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