Alisha G.: Alisha specialises in PTE Academic and NAATI CCL Hindi. As a Pearson PTE trainer and NAATI Hindi mentor with 4+ years of experience, she has…
NAATI Hindi CCL mentor and Pearson PTE trainer, teaching Hindi CCL one-to-one so pacing follows the student.
Score Smart's Hindi CCL program is twelve one-to-one sessions rather than a group course, and Alisha considers that the right shape for the exam. Interpreting is an individual skill with individual failure modes: one student loses numbers, another loses register, a third runs out of memory at the 30-word mark. A group class cannot chase three different problems at once.
Flexible booking also suits the students who take it, most of whom are working while they prepare.
Thirty-five words is longer than it sounds when you are also translating and cannot take notes you rely on. Most candidates can hold the meaning for about half that on their first attempt, then start dropping the tail of the segment.
This is a trainable capacity rather than a talent. Alisha works up in stages with graded segments, so students are not attempting full-length dialogues before they can hold half of one accurately.
On PTE she works across the task set, with most time going to the items where students lose marks to delivery rather than to English — Read Aloud, Repeat Sentence and Describe Image, where hesitation and restarts pull oral fluency down independently of content.
Alisha is a Pearson PTE trainer and a NAATI Hindi CCL mentor with over four years of coaching experience. She has personally scored 79 or above in PTE and passed the NAATI CCL exam.