REPOSTING SUMMARIZE SENTENCES TIPS

1.Skim the entire passage to get an idea of its general content. You should be able to answer the question
What is the passage mainly about?
2.Scan the entire passage for key words and phrases. Words and phrases that are repeated throughout the
passage are usually important. Make a note of these.
3.If there are multiple paragraphs, the first paragraph will typically be an introduction to the topic, and
will often include a brief description of what will be discussed.
4.The last paragraph will typically close with a conclusion
5.Each paragraph will have its own topic sentence expressing the main idea. Typically, the topic sentence
is the first sentence of the paragraph (Rest of things are supporting arguments)
6.The task of summarizing a multi-paragraph passage is sometimes made easier by briefly summarizing
each paragraph first, and then combining these summaries into a single summary.Make a brief summary
of each paragraph as you finish reading it. You do not need full sentences at this point.
7.Keep your summary to a maximum of 40-50 words. The response box has an indicator that will tell you
how many words you have written. If you are getting close to your word limit, but still need to write
more, edit your sentence to remove unnecessary words, especially adjectives. These can often be omitted.
8. use punctuations like comma,colon,apastrophe. You have to use the single full stop in the end of the
sentence.

REPOSTING it again for members who missed it:- PTE (Academic) Reorder Paragraph Tips
Skim each of the paragraphs to get a general idea of the topic.
Identify the paragraph that is the topic paragraph or main idea. This probably goes first.
Note any paragraphs that begin with conjunctions such as However, this,Nevertheless, unless, on the
other hand, But, Also, Furthermore, and so on. Such sentences cannot go first. While sorting, the last
sentence of the paragraph and the first sentence of the paragraph 2,two will have something common and
will try to maintain the flow.
Paragraphs that contain pronouns such as he, she, it, they, them are probably referring to something
mentioned in an earlier paragraph.
Look for any obvious clues to the logical order or chronology of events, for example, sequencing words
such as first, second, lastly, finally, next, then, after, and so on.
Remember to Keep track of your time using the on-screen timer while you are doing practice at home.

Summarize the passage in your own words:

Electric trolley cars or trams were once the chief mode of public transportation in the United
States. Though they required tracks and electric cables to run, these trolley cars were clean and
comfortable. In 1922, auto manufacturer General Motors created a special unit to replace
electric trolleys with cars, trucks, and buses. Over the next decade, this group successfully
lobbied for laws and regulations that made operating trams more difficult and less profitable. In
1936 General Motors created several front companies for the purpose of purchasing and
dismantling the trolley car system. They received substantial investments from Firestone Tire,
Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, and other parties invested in the automotive
industry. Some people suspect that these parties wanted to replace trolley cars with buses to
make public transportation less desirable, which would then increase automobile sales. The
decline of the tram system in North America could be attributed to many thingslabor strikes,
the Great Depression, regulations that were unfavorable to operatorsbut perhaps the primary
cause was having a group of powerful men from rival sectors of the auto industry working
together to ensure its destruction.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Predominant sources of public transport with various amenities gradually lost its attraction after
being engulfed by laws and regulations followed with conspiracy to rule out public transport with
personal automobile demand by numerous rivalries during earlier 19th century.
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Summary :The best example that I've seen of Democratic Socialism operating in this country was during
the Second World War. Then we ran Britain highly efficiently, got every-body into a job. It wasn't
so difficult then to employ people who were disabled and in difficulties and all the rest of it. We
wanted to use all their efforts, and we found the money to do it. We also produced, I would have
thought, probably more than any other country including Germany. We mobilized better. The
conscription of labor was only a very small element of it. We also did what I think we ought to do
on a far greater scale now, looking after the people who are worst hit. In the war, instead of
saying because (the country) is in extreme circumstances you've got to cut the pay of the people

who are worst off, they did the opposite. They increased the pensions, the social security. It was
a democratic society with a common aim in which many of the class barriers were being broken
down. Many of us thought we would never return to a society in which class barriers were
rebuilt. Many of them have been. And many of those class barriers are the very things which
have injured the community since.
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Democratic Socialism in Britain has set an exemplary paradigm during the Second World War
by providing jobs efficiently, mobilizing in a better way, increase in production and topmost
overcoming of class barriers, which is noxious for a community.

summary
Q1) Directions: Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence. Type your
response in the box at the bottom of the screen. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your
response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents
the key points in the passage..

The physician is expected to meet the grim monster, "break the jaws of death, and pluck the
spoil out of his teeth." His ear is ever attentive to entreaty, and within his faithful breast are
concealed the disclosures of the suffering. Success may elate him, as conquest flushes the
victor. Hon-ours are lavished upon the brave soldiers who, in the struggle with the foe, have
covered themselves with glory, and returned victorious from the field of battle; but how much
more brilliant is the achievement of those who overwhelm disease, that common enemy of
mankind, whose victims are numbered by millions! Is it meritorious in the physician to modestly
veil his discoveries, regardless of their importance? If he has light, why hide it from the world?
Truth should be made as universal and health-giving as sunlight. We say, give light to all who
are in darkness, and a remedy to the afflicted everywhere.
Write your answer in the box below (5-75 words):