The PTE (Pearson Test of English) Listening section is one of the four main sections of the PTE Academic exam, which is a computer-based English language proficiency test widely used for academic and immigration purposes. The PTE Listening section evaluates your ability to understand spoken English in academic and everyday contexts.

The PTE Listening section consists of several tasks:

1. Summarize Spoken Text: In this task, you’ll listen to a short audio recording (usually a lecture or a conversation) and then summarize the main points in writing. You’ll have 10 minutes to complete this task.
2. Multiple Choice, Choose Multiple Answers: You’ll listen to an audio recording and then choose multiple correct answers from a list of options. This task assesses your ability to identify specific information, main ideas, and supporting details.
3. Fill in the Blanks: You’ll listen to a recording and fill in the blanks in a transcript. This task evaluates your ability to understand spoken English and use context clues to complete missing information.
4. Highlight Correct Summary: You’ll listen to an audio recording and then choose the summary that best reflects the main points of the recording.
5. Multiple Choice, Choose Single Answer: Similar to the Multiple Choice, Choose Multiple Answers task, but you’ll select only one correct answer.
6. Select Missing Word: You’ll listen to a recording with a gap in it, and you’ll need to select the word that best completes the sentence.
7. Highlight Incorrect Words: You’ll listen to an audio recording and identify words that are incorrect or different from what you hear.

The PTE Listening section is designed to assess your ability to understand spoken English in various contexts, such as academic lectures, conversations, and interviews. Your performance is scored based on your ability to understand the main ideas, details, and relationships between different pieces of information. Your scores range from 10 to 90, with higher scores indicating higher proficiency in listening skills.