PTE UPDATED ESSAY LIST — March 2018

1. In town and cities, the large shopping mall should replace the small local shop. Do you agree or disagree?

2. The university will deduct the student’s score for late assignments, opinions and solutions.
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Should University penalize students for late submission of their work?

3. Whether experimental learning can work well in formal education, agree or disagree?
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Experience is a more effective way to teach, compared to books? Agree or disagree.

4. Problems and benefits for high school students study plays and works of theatres written centuries ago. Discuss and use your own experience.

5. How widely do you think the problem spreads that people spend too much time on work than their personal life and experience time shortage? What problems will it cause?

6. Parents should be held legally responsible for children’s act. What is your opinion?

7. In a cashless society, people use more credit cards. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this phenomenon?

8. Do you think card-less society is realistic and why? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

9. Whether design of building will have a positive or negative impact on people’s life and work?

10. Whether studying films at school is as important as studying literature?

11. It is important for children to study a film at school to learn literature. To what extent you agree? Give example.

12. Do you think the school should have curriculum asking students to play old drama and work for theatre centuries ago?

13. The importance of cars and airplanes in modern life. Give examples.

14. Medical technology is responsible for the human’s life expectancy. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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Medical technology helps to live long life. Is that curse or blessing for society and mankind?

15. In developing countries, tourism has disadvantages or advantages?

16. Certain kinds of music promote learning in their life. Do you agree or disagree?

17. More information available online so library books are useless. Agree or disagree with statement?
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As E-books are available online these days, the value of printed books has diminished. Agree or disagree?

18. Should government build more roads to allow more vehicle owner or improve the network of public transport?

19. Government should reduce their investment in arts, music and painting. Agree or disagree?

20. Effective learning requires time, comfort and peace so it is impossible to combine study and employment. Study and employment distract one from another. To what extent do you think the statements are realistic? Support your opinion with examples?

21. Personal Development is the base for professional development and advancing in one’s career. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

22. In academic studies, grouping students according to academic abilities is good or not good? Give your opinion.

23. People emphasizing government to build an advanced transport system rather new road for vehicles that are overcrowding the cities. Do you agree or disagree?

24. Does video communication with doctor help patients to cure any disease? Pros & Cons?

25. Should library use digital gadgets to provide information on different topics? Pros & Cons

26. Companies use advertisements to influence people to buy things sometimes which they don’t need. Give your opinion about this practice?

27. Students with degree earn high salary than who doesn’t have an academic qualification. Therefore, some argue that they have to pay the full cost of their courses. Give your opinion?

28. Technological access to online music and the like should be free or paid. What do you think?

29. Personal development is the base for professional development and advancing in one’s career. To what extent do you agree?

30. People are moving to urban areas from rural areas for better life. What do you think about?

31. The belching and unauthorized behaviour is unacceptable in modern offices. How far you support this view? Give your response with justification.

32. Research indicates that the characteristics we are born with have much more influence on our personality and development then and experiences we may have in our life.Which do you consider to be the major influence

33. Over the past century, reading, writing, and maths skills are always the most important parts of education. Some people argue that every child will benefit if a fourth skill is added: the computer skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

34. Cycling is more environmentally friendly than other forms of transport. Why is it not popular in many places? And how to increase its popularity?