What is Drop Down Fill In The Blank in PTE Academic (Tips & Tricks To Solve)

Drop Down Blanks is part of PTE fill in the blanks section which is very difficult in PTE. In this, you need to choose the blanks from a drop-down menu in which 4-5 words will be given. These drop down blanks are all about “Collocations“. So in these blanks, one word can be used differently in different forms of sentences. The words given are mainly synonyms, they have a similar meaning to each other and you need to find out the correct one. In this grammar matters a lot in drop down blanks. So for solving this, you need to know the grammar and it requires superior reading skills because they are very difficult and you can achieve your reading skills by reading editorial pages of newspapers and learning new words.

Paragraphs are [larger/bigger/longer] than the other type of fill in the blanks section. So the correct word here (they all look same) – paragraphs are “larger” than the other type of fill in the blanks section. Are the paragrapher are “bigger” or the paragraphs are “longer“. So this is how they give us different words to chose the one.

Drop Down Fill In The Blanks Question With Detailed Answer

How can we do that (Skim the whole paragraph) and begin with the first blank and try to choose the best word (and if you are confused between two words with similar meaning just try to go with your gut, if you don’t know anything just go with your gut because sometimes we have read the particular words somewhere and our guts are telling us this particular word will be here, to be correct this word will fit in here then go with your gut). Don’t just read the same sentence again and again. If you don’t know the meaning just go with your guts.

Practice Drop Down Fill In The Blanks

Important Note – Never avoid reading those sentences which don’t have blanks. This is the main mistake we do, we just avoid the sentences which don’t have blanks but technically they are very important. We often avoid them to save our time but we can easily get the correct idea about the blank and about the answers. So just don’t avoid those sentences which don’t have blanks.