PTE Summarize Written Text 2026 | Find Key Points FAST & Score 90 — Transcript

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1. 0:00This is gone. This is gone. This is
2. 0:02gone. Quotations, examples, gone. So,
3. 0:06one of the questions that people
4. 0:07struggle with the most [music] is
5. 0:08summarize written text. So, in this
6. 0:10video, I'll show you how to quickly find
7. 0:12the right information [music] to include
8. 0:13in your writing summaries, so you can
9. 0:15spend more time to actually check your
10. 0:17answer, check your grammar, [music]
11. 0:18check your spelling. It also helps you
12. 0:20increase your points in the reading
13. 0:21section because writing [music]
14. 0:23summaries also give you points in
15. 0:24reading. Here we go. So, let's cover the
16. 0:25basics. Summarize written text, you get
17. 0:27this massive text up top that's going to
18. 0:29look something like this. You have 10
19. 0:31minutes to summarize it find all the
20. 0:32information. So, the problem is many
21. 0:33students spend a lot of time looking for
22. 0:35the important information, but if you
23. 0:36know several shortcuts, you can find it
24. 0:38much quicker. So, when we see this text,
25. 0:40what do we do? Well, the first thing, of
26. 0:42course, you need to skim it over
27. 0:43quickly. You can read it a little bit,
28. 0:45but I don't recommend reading it word
29. 0:47for word trying to understand every
30. 0:48single detail. There's a lot of things
31. 0:50that you can eliminate. First things
32. 0:52first, you can eliminate any examples.
33. 0:54If you see for example, for instance,
34. 0:56such as, get rid of it right away.
35. 0:59Second thing, quotations. Quotations are
36. 1:01somebody's exact words explaining
37. 1:03something in more detail. So, typically,
38. 1:05if you see massive parts with
39. 1:07quotations, the important information is
40. 1:09going to be summarized right before or
41. 1:11right after. The next thing, processes
42. 1:14and procedures. I'm explaining to you
43. 1:16this new method of doing a heart
44. 1:18surgery. But once I've told you about
45. 1:19that, through every single paragraph,
46. 1:21I'm going to mention each aspect of the
47. 1:23new method of surgery, and then I will
48. 1:25explain the process in more detail. So,
49. 1:27what you want to capture is the main
50. 1:28idea introducing the process, mentioning
51. 1:30the process, or naming it without going
52. 1:32step by step into every single
53. 1:34nitty-gritty detail. You can include a
54. 1:36couple small things, but don't include
55. 1:37every single thing. Next, list of steps.
56. 1:41If you need to buy tomatoes, potatoes,
57. 1:42oranges, bananas, and toilet paper, and
58. 1:44so on and so forth, you need to buy
59. 1:46groceries, right? So, you can include
60. 1:47one or two things from that list, but do
61. 1:49not include that whole list. You're
62. 1:51taking up a lot of very limited space.
63. 1:53And if you have a lot of years,
64. 1:54statistics, numbers, names of countries,
65. 1:57names of people and places, it's
66. 1:59probably not that important. Now, we
67. 2:01have this text, we look at it. So, if we
68. 2:03were to eliminate the things which is
69. 2:05discussed, this is gone, this is gone,
70. 2:08this is gone, quotations, examples,
71. 2:11gone. So, when you know how to do this
72. 2:13very quickly, as you can see from this
73. 2:15example here, almost 40% of the text, if
74. 2:18not more, is actually redundant. It's
75. 2:20actually irrelevant. So, you got the
76. 2:21skeleton of the text and now depends on
77. 2:23your level of English there are two ways
78. 2:25to do it. One is what I recommend to my
79. 2:28students who need a lower score, who
80. 2:30still make writing mistakes, need a
81. 2:31little bit of help, need a little bit of
82. 2:32work. And the second method is for
83. 2:34students who already have a slightly
84. 2:35higher base level and they're able to do
85. 2:37a lot of things on the go. So, let's go
86. 2:39one by one for each one of them. In the
87. 2:41first one, you have this leftover
88. 2:43information. Obviously, not everything
89. 2:44is important. So, you want to identify
90. 2:46the key sentences. Typically, these key
91. 2:48sentences are going to be at the start
92. 2:50of the paragraphs or at the end of the
93. 2:52paragraphs. Why? Because at the start of
94. 2:54the paragraph, by definition in academic
95. 2:56text, we will introduce a new idea. We
96. 2:59will introduce new keywords that we
97. 3:01haven't spoken about yet. And towards
98. 3:03the end of the paragraph, often there's
99. 3:04going to be some conclusion, some
100. 3:06outcome, some kind of a result. Not
101. 3:07always, but often. Now, in every single
102. 3:09text, on average, there's going to be at
103. 3:11least three important key points, but
104. 3:13usually no more than five or six
105. 3:16maximum. For example, something from
106. 3:17here, something from here, something
107. 3:19from here, and something from here. Now,
108. 3:21of course, those sentences are too long
109. 3:22and because we have a limit of 75 words
110. 3:25maximum, we cannot include all of them.
111. 3:27So, again, when we look at individual
112. 3:28sentences, typically, you will see that
113. 3:30part of it is important. You have some
114. 3:33new crucial information and the second
115. 3:34part, they add extra flavor. They add
116. 3:37extra spices, descriptions, adjectives,
117. 3:39adverbs. Adjectives, adverbs, those
118. 3:42descriptive words. I like coffee or I
119. 3:44like coffee very much, incredibly,
120. 3:46amazingly. Those kinds of words don't
121. 3:47actually change the meaning. So, you can
122. 3:49actually cut them down as well. So, out
123. 3:50of this whole long sentence, if you
124. 3:52actually start reading what's important
125. 3:54and what's not, you will quickly see
126. 3:55that only about half of that sentence is
127. 3:57important. At this point, what can you
128. 3:59do? If your level is good enough, you
129. 4:01can
130. 4:02feel confident kind of cutting things
131. 4:03out as you go along. You can actually
132. 4:05reduce the sentence, add it in, put your
133. 4:07connector, add another, put your
134. 4:09connector, add another, put your
135. 4:10connector, add another, and then start
136. 4:12to rewrite it. But, if you see that your
137. 4:13level is a little bit lower, it's harder
138. 4:15for you to remove some things, rewrite
139. 4:17some words on the go because you tend to
140. 4:19make more mistakes. In that case, I want
141. 4:21you to copy the sentence almost entirely
142. 4:23as it is. 1 2 3 4. And once you've
143. 4:26written it out, then you're going to
144. 4:27start paraphrasing the text a little
145. 4:29bit. Now, my suggestion is if your
146. 4:31grammar level spelling is not that
147. 4:32strong, keep the same sequence of words
148. 4:35more or less, keep the same sentence
149. 4:37structure more or less, but start to
150. 4:38change some synonyms. Instead of the
151. 4:40school system, you can say the education
152. 4:42system. And obviously, if some of the
153. 4:44words are difficult and there's no easy
154. 4:45synonym for them, you don't need to
155. 4:47paraphrase everything. Now, for those of
156. 4:49you that have a more advanced level,
157. 4:50once you identify those four five key
158. 4:52sentences, you can actually start
159. 4:54writing them out as you go. But again,
160. 4:56you need to be confident that when you
161. 4:57practice that way and you check your
162. 4:59answers that you're not making too many
163. 5:00mistakes. Because if you start to change
164. 5:02the grammar, the tenses, ing to ed to
165. 5:05has been have been, it gets very easy to
166. 5:07get caught
167. 5:08in such a long run-on sentence and of
168. 5:10course make grammatical mistakes. So,
169. 5:11that's why if you're unsure, easiest way
170. 5:13is use these shortcuts, save this
171. 5:15formula, save this video, remember it.
172. 5:17Use these shortcuts to find the
173. 5:18information very quickly, get rid of the
174. 5:20junk, and at the end you're only left
175. 5:22with about 50 to 60% of the text. From
176. 5:24there, you're going to find about four
177. 5:26or three or five sentences maximum which
178. 5:29seem important, and you're going to
179. 5:30start shortening them,
180. 5:31copying them. Once you're done copying
181. 5:33them, you're going to rewrite them a
182. 5:34little bit. As a general rule, if you're
183. 5:36somebody who needs band seven in PTE,
184. 5:38you want to be rewriting 40 to 50% of
185. 5:40that text. And if you're somebody who
186. 5:42needs eight band, you want to be
187. 5:43rewriting upwards of 50, 50 60 even 65%
188. 5:47of the text. Remember, you got 10
189. 5:49minutes to complete this from start to
190. 5:50finish. You can only put one full stop
191. 5:53at the end. Make sure to check the word
192. 5:55counter. The computer counts the words
193. 5:57for you, so do not go over 75 words. Oh,
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