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Home PTE ACADEMIC READING Reading Fill in the Blanks – Drag and Drop | Drop-down


READING FILL IN THE BLANKS – DRAG AND DROP | DROP-DOWN

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Hi everyone! Welcome back. In this post we will see reding fill in the blanks.
There are two types of fill in the blanks in reading section. Fill in the blanks
drag and drop, which contributes marks only for reading section and the other
one is drop-down, which contributes marks for both reading and writing sections.

For reading fill in the blanks if you think that you can score well by
practicing in a week or month then you are wrong. It is purely based on grammar
and vocabulary, which could be improved only if you have reading habit. Practice
materials alone will not give you the marks. Therefore, read the newspaper
everyday or watch some news channels, brush up the collocations and learn as
many vocabularies as possible. Don’t consider whatsapp or facebook articles as
they are not perfect and have many errors.

Now we will see some strategies to improve marks in this task.




UNDERSTAND THE TASK

The below are the basic difference between drag and drop and drop-down.

5 questions will be asked in drag and drop, and 5 or 6 questions in drop-down.
As I already said, drag and drop is scored for reading section and drop-down is
scored for both reading and writing. 1 mark for each correct answer and no
negative marks.

For both of these tasks, grammar, vocabulary and collocations are much
important. You have to improve your skills in grammar, vocabulary and
collocations to score well in fill in the blanks.




GRAMMAR

Grammar plays an important role in reading fill in the blanks. Before reading
any article or newspaper learn the basic grammar such as present, past, future
tense, past participle, past perfect tense and all. For example, if you see any
answer with the continuous tense ‘ing’ then it should join with the verb
is/was/will be. Like ‘He is playing’, ‘It was raining yesterday’. If the word
ends with ‘ed’ then it should be past tense or past perfect tense or future
perfect tense. Know all these things before practicing reading fill in the
blanks. If you know the grammar, then you are 50% good and can easily fit the
answers in the correct blanks.


VOCABULARY

Know the synonyms as much as possible. Whatever new word that you see or hear,
google it immediately and try to remember it in your own way. You cannot do this
spontaneously. You have to read the books or newspaper atleast 1 hour every day
for a month to improve yourself.


COLLOCATIONS

Collocation is nothing but two different words are connecting each other. You
should be able to tell the other word if you see the first word in the sentence.
Example: active participant. You can see a huge list of collocations in the
below Pearson website itself.

Academic Collocation List – If you read all the words many times from this link,
you will be able to remember many words unknowingly.


DRAG AND DROP FILL IN THE BLANKS – TECHNIQUES

For this type of question – There is a passage with some missing words. You have
a list of words under the text that you can use to fill the gaps. Read the
passage quickly. Understanding the meaning of whole text helps you choose the
correct word for each blank. And while reading itself try to fill the blanks
with the given options, which will save some time.

First fill the known blanks – in terms of grammar, vocabulary and collocation
words. Exclude grammatically incorrect words, pick the word that fits the blank,
or collocation words if any. With the remaining blanks read all the options
again, exclude whichever doesn’t fit and fill the right ones. Don’t leave the
options even if you have already filled it. Because sometimes you might have
filled the wrong ones. If you feel so, then replace it with the correct one.

Remember that there will be more options than the given blanks and you will not
use all of them provided. There might be two different words with correct
grammar, but the meaning will be different. Therefore, read some words before
and after the blank, which helps you identify the correct word and check if the
meaning of the selected word will fit that blank. Always apply grammar,
vocabulary and collocation for the given options before filling it in the blank.




DROP-DOWN FILL IN THE BLANKS – TECHNIQUES

For this type of question – There are 4 to 5 words in the drop-down menu and you
need to select the correct one for each blank of the paragraph. The meaning of
the options will be somewhat related to each other but not all the words will
fit the blank. So select carefully. Read the whole paragraph. Sometimes the
whole idea will be somewhere in the middle of the paragraph, which helps you to
identify the answer. Therefore, read the entire paragraph quickly.

Pick words that match the meaning and grammar– Even in this type of blank,
grammar, vocabulary and collocations play an important role. If you know the
meaning of the words, you can easily relate it with the sentence. You can then
check the grammar to see whether the word fits the blanks or not. Looking at the
surrounding context will help to choose the appropriate word. Reading either
side of the blank will help you narrow down the choices you have to
make. Sometimes you may see the opposite words or repeated words of the blanks,
which help you find the answer more quickly.

Because the choices in the drop-down menus may look quite similar but will have
different meanings and may also be related to the main topic. Therefore, while
practicing know the meaning of other words as well in the drop-down list even if
you answer the blank correctly. In that way, you will come to know the meaning
of many words, which improves your reading ability and it will be helpful in the
real exam.

Practicing enormous materials without knowing the meaning, will probably waste
your time as it will not improve your reading skills. Therefore, as I already
mentioned read as much articles as possible and know the meaning of words before
taking the mock tests.




CONCLUSION

Ok that’s all about fill in the blanks. It is very important task in reading
section as it contributes more marks. Try to answer all correct because
sometimes you may end up with 77 or 78 in the entire section, which screws up
your whole preparation. Therefore, concentrate well and answer correctly.
Moreover, time management is also another factor, which makes you to lose marks.
While practicing itself take only 2 to 2.5 minutes for each question so that you
won’t miss any questions at the end.

I would like to share one more thing. There is a hidden secret in PTE, which is
not known by many. There are some extra marks provided in each section.
Therefore, even if you make mistake, you can still get 90. It happened to me.
For speaking and writing sections, based on the performance the marks will be
given but in reading section the marks will be given based on correct answers.

In my exam in reading fill in the blanks, I have realised that I made one wrong
answer after cross checking with the source. But I got 90 in reading section.
And this is even proven by many people. So don’t worry if you made a mistake.
Keep attending with full confidence and don’t lose hope. Even if you make many
mistakes still there is a chance to get 79+. Ok if you need any other
information, please let me know. I will try to make a video on that particular
topic. Thanks for watching all my videos and providing positive comments. Have a
great day ahead.

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2 COMMENTS

 1. Rajesh Kumar April 16, 2021 At 2:49 pm
    
    I am still getting less than 79 in reading as I am always losing 2 or 3
    marks. Can you please help me out to get 79 in reading?
    
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    * PTE Protips May 1, 2021 At 1:59 pm
      
      For 79+ please focus on the below tasks…
      Speaking – RA, RS, DI and RL
      Writing – Both SWT and Essay
      Reading – RO and Both FIBs
      Listening – SST, FIBs, HIW and WFD
      Rest of the tasks contribute less marks, therefore we can attend them with
      minimal preparation…
      Practice all these tasks from most repeated tasks –
      https://pteprotips.com/category/most-repeated/
      Essay – use the template from https://pteprotips.com/essay/
      For all categories, we can use the same essay template…
      SWT – Either follow the template or you can follow this method – find
      topic sentence and it’s supporting key points. Ignore who tells what,
      irrelevant sentences to the topic… Paraphrase only the insignificant
      words. Don’t paraphrase the key points… And make sure to get all correct
      in WFD and Reading fill in the blanks drop down because if we use template
      for SWT we may capture less key points.
      
      Reply
      
    




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