PTE Core Answer Short Question Predictions - 5 October – 11 October 2026 Weekly Study File
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PTE Core Weekly Predictions · 5 October – 11 October 2026
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What is a person who writes books or stories known as?
Answer: Writer / Author
A type of holiday that involves travelling on a ship is known as?
Answer: Cruise
Which absorbent garment is commonly worn by babies to contain urine and waste?
Answer: Diaper / Nappy
A person who purchases goods or services from a business is called?
Answer: Customer
Which form of money consists of coins and notes?
Answer: Cash
What type of energy is generated using uranium as fuel?
Answer: Nuclear
What is needed to light a stove?
Answer: Igniter / Lighter / Matchstick
What is a short, regular meeting in an organization called?
Answer: Standup / Huddle Meeting
What is a 12-month accounting period used by governments, companies, and organizations for financial reporting and
budgeting purposes called?
Answer: Fiscal year
What do you usually read before ordering food in a restaurant?
Answer: Menu
Which type of legal document protects a person's invention or intellectual property rights?
Answer: Patent
Which color medal is awarded to the athlete who finishes in third place at the Olympics?
Answer: Bronze
What is the term for someone who sits beside you?
Answer: Seatmate / Neighbour
What is the medical term for a doctor who treats people with mental illnesses?
Answer: Psychiatrist
When you want to bake something, where would you buy flour - a florist or a grocery?
Answer: Grocery
What is the term for someone who reads books?
Answer: Reader
What is the antonym of the word 'export'?
Answer: Import
What do you call a person who is on the same team as you?
Answer: T eammate [5] [th] [October – 11] [th] October 2026
What do you call the list of food options shown before you place an order?
Answer: Menu
What is a person who writes poems called?
Answer: Poet
What is the term used for the party currently in power?
Answer: Ruling party / Governing party
If ears are for hearing, what are eyes for?
Answer: Seeing / Vision
A liquid product that is specifically used for washing hair is called?
Answer: Shampoo
Hearing is made possible by the sense of hearing. What sense enables you to see?
Answer: Sight / Vision
What item does one use to dry their body after a shower?
Answer: T owel
What utensils do we commonly use to eat food?
Answer: Spoon / Fork / Knife
What term collectively describes apartments, houses, and flats?
Answer: Residential Properties
Some people use their right hand to write, but what do we call people who use their left hand to write?
Answer: Left-handed / Lefties
What is a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground called?
Answer: Cloud
What is typically deposited in a bank?
Answer: Money
What is breakfast, lunch and dinner categorized as?
Answer: Meals
A professional offering expert advice in a particular field is known as?
Answer: Consultant
What word means to purposely refuse to buy a certain product or from a certain company as a way of protesting?
Answer: Boycott
What geometric shape are circumference, diameter, and radius related to?
Answer: Circle
What is the term used for an amount that is regularly received by a retiree?
Answer: Pension
A person who tells lies is called?
Answer: Liar
In a marriage, what is the male partner known as?
Answer: Husband
The various forms of money used by any country is known as?
Answer: Currency
What part of a bird's body helps them propel in the air?
Answer: Wings
What is a brief summary for an academic paper or research article giving the readers an understanding of the article?
Answer: Abstract
A person who shares the same room with you is called?
Answer: Roommate
Where do marine animals live?
Answer: Sea / Ocean
What do you call your cousin's father?
Answer: Uncle
The country where a person is born is called?
Answer: Country of Origin / Motherland
What is the opposite of the word 'damp'?
Answer: Dry
Who is the person who writes a piece of music, especially classical music?
Answer: Composer
What is the connecting part between two bones called?
Answer: Joint
What is the loud noise that you hear during a storm?
Answer: Thunder
What is the opposite of the word 'import'?
Answer: Export
Which season comes after winter and before summer?
Answer: Spring
A vehicle that can travel in space is called?
Answer: Spacecraft
What is the space that includes the sun and all the planets called?
Answer: Solar System
What is the term used to specifically describe either a brother or a sister?
Answer: Sibling
What subject studies the life and structure of humans, animals, and plants?
Answer: Biology
What is the mountain that is filled with melting rocks in hot gases?
Answer: Volcano
What is the name of a male sheep?
Answer: Ram
Which day of the week comes after Wednesday?
Answer: Thursday
How many sides does an octagon have?
Answer: 8 / Eight
An event that happens once every year is called?
Answer: Annual
What is the opposite of 'forward'?
Answer: Backward
A scientist who studies the universe and its objects like planets & stars is called?
Answer: Astronomer
What is buying or bringing goods into a country from another country called?
Answer: Import / Importing
What is a mythical, horse-like creature with a horn on its head known as?
Answer: Unicorn
A professional who prescribes medicines to patients is called?
Answer: Doctor
What is the opposite of horizontal?
Answer: Vertical
What do you call your uncle's son?
Answer: Cousin Brother
What are the people living in Switzerland called?
Answer: Swiss
What is the opposite of maximum?
Answer: Minimum
What is the process of breaking down any substance and re-using it again called?
Answer: Recycling / Recycle
What is a group of mountains such as the Himalayas called?
Answer: Range
Soup is frequently eaten with what utensil?
Answer: Spoon
If a company requires its employees to wear identical clothes, what is the clothing called?
Answer: Uniform
What is a person who uses left hand for most of the activities called?
Answer: Left hander
What is the picture of a person's side face called?
Answer: Profile shot
What is a design, made on one's skin using a needle and ink called?
Answer: T attoo
What is a disturbing or frightening dream called?
Answer: Nightmare
When you mix black and white, what color would you get?
Answer: Grey / Gray
What is the second month of the year?
Answer: February
What is the term used for the money borrowed from banks?
Answer: Loans
What do we call an experienced person who advises and helps less experienced people?
Answer: Mentor
What do you call a person who lives next to your house?
Answer: Neighbour
If Monday is the first day, what day is the fourth day?
Answer: Thursday
What is the opposite meaning of objective?
Answer: Subjective
What is the study of religion called?
Answer: Theology
What is the term used for a professional who practices law?
Answer: Lawyer / Attorney
What do people usually use to cut food?
Answer: Knife
How many years are celebrated in a bicentennial?
Answer: 200
How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: 6
What do we call a machine that carries people from one floor to another in a multistory building?
Answer: Lift / Elevator
What are the people who study religions?
Answer: Theologian
What is the boat that carries people from one side of a river to the other?
Answer: Ferry
What is the line where the sky meets the land?
Answer: Horizon / Skyline
What are buses, trains, and cars used for?
Answer: Transportation / Travel / Transport / Travelling
What clothing do people wear, such as students or nurses, to show that they belong to the same organization?
Answer: Uniform
What do you call the diagram which includes a horizontal line called the X
-axis and a vertical line called the Y -axis?
Answer: Coordinate system
Which document does a student get when he completes his study at university?
Answer: Graduation certificate
What is the ceremony where two people get married?
Answer: Wedding
What is the most important part of the human respiratory system?
Answer: Lungs
What does sub-Mediterranean mean?
Answer: Climate
What do we call the animals that live in the sea?
Answer: Marine animals
What is the short sleep in the afternoon?
Answer: Nap
What is the process of moving information from a computer to the Internet?
Answer: Uploading
Which part of the body do we use the nasal spray in?
Answer: Nose
What does a poisonous animal carry?
Answer: Venom
In the solar system, which heavenly body produces sunshine?
Answer: Sun
Which part of the hand do we use to pick up objects?
Answer: Fingers
Which part of our bodies do we use the nasal spray in?
Answer: Nose
If a magazine is published quarterly, how many times a year is it published?
Answer: Four times a year
What is the occupation that transfers one language to another language?
Answer: Translator
What do you throw underwater to keep ships staying on rivers or oceans without drifting away?
Answer: Anchor
What is the opposite of division in mathematics?
Answer: Multiplication
What is the job title of someone who works at the beach and save people's lives when they are in danger in the sea?
Answer: Lifesavers
Which part of the body do mammals use to feed their next generations?
Answer: Breast
What is the music that is recorded for a movie or a film?
Answer: Soundtrack
What is the activity of inhalation of tobacco substance that is harmful to our health?
Answer: Smoking
What order is a bibliography usually listed in?
Answer: Alphabetical order
What do meter and millimeter measure: weight or length?
Answer: Length
When something is given in a pair, how many of them are there?
Answer: 2
What is the device that shows the time of the day according to the shadow of sunlight?
Answer: Sundial
What device is used to measure a 200-meter sprint?
Answer: Stopwatch
What is the hardest part of your hand?
Answer: Nails
Which organ is the blood pumped from?
Answer: Heart
When you use Microsoft Word, which category does "Times New Roman" belong to?
Answer: Fonts
What is the term used to describe a period of seven days?
Answer: Week
How often does February have one extra day?
Answer: Every four years
What's the process of people paying money to governments for public services?
Answer: T axation
What is the first paragraph of an essay?
Answer: Introduction
What are the people who study history and historical evidence?
Answer: Historian
What shines at night in the sky and uses its own brightness?
Answer: Star / Stars
Does a scapegoat receive or give a crime?
Answer: Receive
Where do people watch plays?
Answer: Theatre
What rises from the east in the morning and sets to the west in the evening every day?
Answer: The Sun
Where can you normally find the index in a book?
Answer: At the end
What movement can babies do before they can sit and walk?
Answer: Crawling
A newspaper is published every day, and a journal is published every month. What do you call the publication that is
published four times a year?
Answer: Quarterly
Who takes care of people who are sick and stay in the hospital?
Answer: Nurse
What would you call a doctor who treat sick animals?
Answer: Vet/ Veterinarian
When you have the primary and the secondary, what do you have next?
Answer: T ertiary
What do we call a car that uses two types of fuels?
Answer: A hybrid car
When a person's Blood Alcohol Content is higher than the standard range, what activity are they not allowed to do?
Answer: Driving
If a meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, and today is Tuesday, then will the meeting be held, tomorrow? the day after
tomorrow? or next week? [
Answer: T] omorrow
How many wheels does a tricycle have?
Answer: 3
If you have a toothache, who would you go to?
Answer: Dentist
How many years does a centennial celebrate?
Answer: 100 years
Which Animal has white ivory and long trunk?
Answer: Elephant
What does a Sundial measure according to the shadow in the sunlight?
Answer: Time
Who is the person who works in a hospital and can do operations?
Answer: Surgeon
What's the force that pushes everything to the earth?
Answer: Gravity
If someone has a couple of kids, how many kids does he have?
Answer: Two
How many years are there in a decade?
Answer: 10 years
How many years does it take to finish an undergraduate study?
Answer: 4 years / 3 years
If a figure is hexagonal, how many sides does it have?
Answer: Six
In which direction does the sun come up?
Answer: East
In which room of their home would someone usually wash their clothes?
Answer: In the laundry room
Some calendars begin the week on Sunday, what is the other day which commonly starts a week?
Answer: Monday
To improve their health and fitness, most people either try to improve their diet or?
Answer: Do more physical exercise
To which of our senses do all of the following words relate, opaque, vivid, brilliant, and shiny?
Answer: Vision
Tons, kg, and stones measure what property?
Answer: Weight
What are winter, spring, summer, and autumn?
Answer: Seasons
What crime has someone stealing items from a shop committed: shop fitting or shoplifting?
Answer: Shoplifting / Shop lifting
What desk should you go to when you first arrive to stay at a hotel?
Answer: Reception
What do we call a company or organization that gives money to a sports or arts event in exchange for advertising?
Answer: Sponsor
What do we call a period of 10 years?
Answer: A decade
What do we call it when the moon completely blocks out the light from the Sun?
Answer: A solar eclipse
What do we call the date that a piece of work must be finished by?
Answer: Due Date
What do we call the meeting where an employer asks a potential employee question about their work experience?
Answer: Interview
What do we call the study of living things?
Answer: Biology
What do you call an apartment that is below ground level, a basement apartment or a penthouse apartment?
Answer: A basement apartment
What do you call the document that gives you details about your qualifications and work experience?
Answer: Resume
What do you call the very long essay that students have to write for a doctoral degree?
Answer: Thesis / Dissertation
What device do you use to type when you use a computer?
Answer: Keyboard
What is 3 quarters of 100%?
Answer: 75%
What is a painting of a person's head usually called?
Answer: A portrait
What is more fuel-efficient, car or truck?
Answer: A car
What is the antonym of vertical?
Answer: Horizontal
What is the job title of someone who designs buildings?
Answer: Architect
What is the last thing to do when baking a cake?
Answer: Cook it in the oven
What is the month between January and March?
Answer: February
What is the most important document you have to show when you want to hire a car?
Answer: A Driver's license
What is the name for a huge natural body that orbits the sun?
Answer: A planet
What is the name of the field of study that studies the human mind and behaviour?
Answer: Psychology
Where in the universe do we get solar energy from?
Answer: Sun
What is the study of the stars and planets called?
Answer: Astronomy
What is the word for a period of one hundred years?
Answer: Century
What is the word for the place where a river starts?
Answer: Source / Headwaters / Origin
What is the word in geometry for a shape that has three sides?
Answer: Triangle
What key mineral makes seawater different from fresh water?
Answer: Salt
What kind of equipment is used to protect motorbike rider's brain from injury?
Answer: A helmet
What kind of liquid do mammals feed their babies?
Answer: Milk
What object would you use to climb up to the roof of a house?
Answer: Ladder
What special document do most people traveling between one country to another need to carry?
Answer: A passport
What word is used to describe frozen water?
Answer: Ice
What's the joint called where your hand is connected to your arm?
Answer: Wrist
When the writer of a book is unknown, what word is used for the author?
Answer: Anonymous
Where can people go to borrow books?
Answer: Library
Where would you expect to find equipment like a microscope, bunsen burner, beaker, and petri dish?
Answer: Laboratory
Where would you go to see an exhibition of sculpture or painting?
Answer: An art gallery / A museum
Which country is in the southern hemisphere Australia or Canada?
Answer: Australia
Which department in the hospital would you go for an X‐ray, radiology, or cardiology?
Answer: Radiology
Which instrument is used to measure variations in temperature?
Answer: Thermometer
Which kind of punishment for a crime is the less severe, imprisonment or community service?
Answer: Community service
Who is the main journalist responsible for producing a newspaper or magazine?
Answer: Editor
Who serves food in a restaurant?
Answer: Waiter / Waitress
Who would you consult to treat a fear of crowded places, a philosopher or a psychologist?
Answer: A psychologist
Would a supermarket, a cafe or a bookstore probably have the widest range of products available
Answer: A supermarket
Would it be better to go jogging at noon or in the early morning, if you wanted to avoid the hottest part of the day?
Answer: In the early morning
Would letter or email be the fastest way to get a message to your professor?
Answer: Email
Would you go to a pharmacy or a surgery to get a prescription filled after visiting a doctor?
Answer: A pharmacy
What is the process of teaching and learning called?
Answer: Education
What kind of book is written by a person about their own life?
Answer: Autobiography
What is the red liquid that flows through a body?
Answer: Blood
Who is a person that makes bread, cakes and pastries?
Answer: Baker
What organ controls your speech, feelings, body movement, and thoughts?
Answer: Brain
What is it called when two or more people are speaking to each other?
Answer: Conversation
What is the job of someone that looks after your teeth and gums?
Answer: Dentist
Where would you find a whale - tropical forest or ocean?
Answer: Ocean
On what geographical location would someone be living if their country is surrounded by water on all side?
Answer: Island
If a button has come off a shirt, what would someone most likely use to put it back on?
Answer: Needle and thread
What do we call a period of 1000 years?
Answer: Millennium
How do butterflies fly?
Answer: Flutter
What do ophthalmologists specialize in?
Answer: Eye operations
How many days are there in a week?
Answer: 7
For killing bacteria drugs used are called?
Answer: Antibiotics
Which one is quicker? Running, walking or jogging?
Answer: Running
Which subject is in the sphere of biology? Genetics, spacecraft, or buildings?
Answer: Genetics
One who tests eyesight and sells spectacles
Answer: Optician
How many years are there in a millennium?
Answer: A thousand years
Which natural material is used to make car tyers?
Answer: Rubber
How many days in a fortnight?
Answer: 14
If a figure in pentagon how many sides does it have?
Answer: 5
If something such as fabric or medicine is artificially made what do we say it is?
Answer: Synthetic
What do you call a student that has finished his first year?
Answer: Sophomore
If one's response is simultaneous, is it quick or slow?
Answer: Quick
What can we call a doctor who can sell prescribed medicines?
Answer: Chemist
How do you describe the desert? Humid or dry？
Answer: Dry
How many days are added in February during a leap year?
Answer: One day / 1
What would you call people who study ancient bones, rocks, and plants?
Answer: Archaeologist
If there are 8 black balls and 1 white ball, and I randomly pick one, which color is most likely to be picked?
Answer: Black
What do we call the instructions that tell you how to cook food?
Answer: Recipe
What do you call a list in front of a book which outlines the structure of a book?
Answer: T able of Contents
What is the joint between your shoulder and your forearm?
Answer: Elbow
What is the antonym of "predecessor"?
Answer: Successor
What are the strings on shoes?
Answer: Shoelace
What type of resources does an electric device use?
Answer: Electricity
What's the place of areas for colleges or universities?
Answer: Campus
Which kind of mountain can erupt?
Answer: Volcanic
How many months does a calendar year have?
Answer: 12
What do we call the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments?
Answer: Music
What is the political system where the country is ruled by a king or a queen?
Answer: Monarchy
What is the word used to describe that through which light cannot pass?
Answer: Opaque
How do we describe that through which light can pass?
Answer: Transparent
What do we call the movement of a knife to separate or divide?
Answer: Cut
What is the book with maps called?
Answer: Atlas
In the word 'postgraduate', what does 'post' mean?
Answer: After
What is the opposite of positive?
Answer: Negative
What do we call the thread in the center of a candle?
Answer: Wick
What natural resource is used by a carpenter?
Answer: Wood
Into how many hemispheres does the Equator split the earth?
Answer: 2
What is the title of a newspaper column called?
Answer: Headline
What is the adjective to describe the creatures that no longer exist?
Answer: Extinct
What can we call a person who studies teeth?
Answer: Dentist
What do we call the person who works in a company?
Answer: An employee
What do we call the festival that is held every four years, which gathers several nation's people for sporting events?
Answer: Olympics
Which part of the body do optometrists examine?
Answer: Eyes
What can bring astronauts to space?
Answer: Spacecraft
What is paper made from?
Answer: Tree / Trees / wood
What attitude would you have when you are in a job interview: enthusiastic or passive?
Answer: Enthusiastic
What institution helps people save money?
Answer: Bank
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