PTE Listening Mock Test, Free and Timed

Part 3 of PTE Academic: eight task types in Pearson's order, from Summarize Spoken Text to Write from Dictation, each recording played once, on a part clock inside Pearson's 31-39 minutes. Audio is browser text-to-speech, and the report shows a practice estimate for every task type.

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Start the Listening mock

15-22 questions on one part clock of 31-39 minutes. Use headphones and a quiet room; every recording plays once. You can save and resume at any question.

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Part 3 of PTE Academic: structure and timing

Listening has eight task types and starts with the longest one, Summarize Spoken Text, which has its own 10 minutes. The rest share the part clock. In all of them you hear the recording once, so the habit to build is to take notes or hold the key words as you listen, not to rely on a second chance.

Part 3: Listening

Pearson lists 31-39 minutes and 8 task types for this part.

Task type	Questions	Time	Prompt
Summarize Spoken Text	1	10 minutes to listen and write 50-70 words	Audio of 60-90 seconds
Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers	2-3	Part clock only	Audio of 80-120 seconds
Fill in the Blanks (type in)	2-3	Part clock only	Audio of 30-60 seconds
Highlight Correct Summary	2-3	Part clock only	Audio of 30-90 seconds
Multiple Choice, Single Answer	2-3	Part clock only	Audio of 30-60 seconds
Select Missing Word	1-2	Part clock only	Audio of 20-70 seconds
Highlight Incorrect Words	2-3	Part clock only	Audio of 15-50 seconds
Write from Dictation	3-4	Part clock only	Audio of 3-5 seconds

Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers: Our recordings are shorter than the 80-120 seconds Pearson lists.

Question counts are the ranges in Pearson's PTE Academic Test Taker Score Guide; part durations, prompt lengths and times are from Pearson's test format pages. Checked 2026-10-10. Pearson does not give a time limit per Reading or Listening question, only the part total.

How the Listening mock is marked

Fill in the Blanks (type in) and Write from Dictation: 1 point per correctly spelled word, so spelling counts. Capital letters are ignored.
Highlight Incorrect Words and multiple answers: +1 for each correct choice and -1 for each wrong one, never below 0.
Single-answer questions, Select Missing Word and Highlight Correct Summary: 1 or 0.
Summarize Spoken Text: a practice estimate from simple text checks (50-70 words, key points, copied phrases). Pearson also reviews content with a human, which the mock cannot do.

For one task type without a clock, use the Listening practice hub. When your dictation score is the weak one, Write from Dictation practice has a large bank of original sentences.

How each mock is put together

Every run starts from a random seed, shown on screen as a short mock code. The seed decides which questions you get and their order inside each task type; a reload gives you the same mock, and a new run draws different questions. Inside one run no question is used twice.

Counts inside Pearson's ranges. Pearson gives a range of questions per task type (for example 6 to 7 Read Aloud). Each run draws a number inside the range, so two mocks can differ by a question or two, as two real test versions do.
Pearson's order and task timers. Task types appear in the order Pearson lists them, with its preparation and answer times (for example 25 seconds to prepare and 40 seconds to speak in Describe Image).
Part clocks for Reading and Listening. Pearson publishes only the part total (23-30 and 31-39 minutes), not a time per question. The mock sets one part clock inside that range in proportion to how many questions it drew. That rule is ours.
Audio is text-to-speech.Recordings are read aloud by your browser's built-in voice, not by recorded human speakers, so they sound different from the test and vary by device. You can choose the accent. Each recording plays once.
Original questions. Every item was written for this site. None is a real, past or predicted exam question.

Save, resume and privacy

Your mock is saved in this browser's local storage as you go: the questions drawn, your answers, your speaking results and the clock. Close the page and press Resume mock next time to carry on where you stopped. The clock does not run while the page is closed. You can clear the saved mock or restart with new questions at any time.

Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed. The saved mock does not follow you to another browser or device.
Microphone audio stays in your browser. It is never sent to this site and never saved, not even locally, so a recording is gone when you leave the page.
The on-device transcript runs a speech model inside your browser, so the audio is not uploaded (the model downloads once from third-party hosts). The browser transcript, in Chrome and Edge only, sends your voice to the browser's own speech service. Both are off unless you turn one on for a question. If you do, the transcript text is kept in your saved mock on this device.
Finished task sets are added to your practice progress, also stored only in this browser.

How to use this mock

Use headphones and press Play only when you are ready: each recording plays once and cannot be paused.
Type answers while the recording is still fresh. For dictation, write every word you caught rather than leaving the sentence blank.
Watch the part clock but not at the cost of the recording; unanswered questions score 0.
Use the report to see whether the listening or the writing side (spelling, summary) is losing points.

Official sources

Last updated October 2026. PTE and Pearson are trademarks of Pearson. This site is independent and is not affiliated with Pearson. These mock tests use original questions written for this site and give practice estimates, never an official score.

Frequently asked questions

How long is the PTE Listening mock test?

Pearson lists 31-39 minutes for Part 3. The mock sets one part clock between 31 and 39 minutes, longer when the run draws more questions, and gives Summarize Spoken Text its own 10 minutes, the time Pearson lists for listening and writing the summary. The part clock rule is ours, because Pearson gives no time per Listening question.

How many questions are in the Listening part?

Pearson's Score Guide gives 1 Summarize Spoken Text, 2-3 each of Multiple Choice (multiple answers), Fill in the Blanks, Highlight Correct Summary, Multiple Choice (single answer) and Highlight Incorrect Words, 1-2 Select Missing Word and 3-4 Write from Dictation. A run draws a number inside each range, 15-22 questions in all.

Is the audio a real recording?

No. Every recording is read aloud by your browser's built-in text-to-speech voice, so it sounds different from the test and differs between devices. You can pick British, Australian, American or Indian English. Our recordings are often shorter than the lengths Pearson lists, so the mock is kinder than the real test on audio length.

Can I replay a recording?

No. Each recording plays once, as in the test, and the button is disabled afterwards. If your browser has no voices the recording cannot play, so use Chrome, Edge or Safari.

How is the Listening mock marked?

Objective questions use Pearson's per-question rules: 1 point per correctly spelled blank or dictated word, +1 and -1 for Highlight Incorrect Words and multiple answers (never below 0), and 1 or 0 for single-answer questions. Summarize Spoken Text gets a practice estimate from simple text checks. Everything is reported as a percent, not a 10-90 score.

Why are two task types written specially for the mock?

The practice banks do not yet have items for Multiple Choice with multiple answers or Highlight Correct Summary in Listening, so we wrote original ones for the mock. They are not real exam questions.