Esha K.: Esha is a Pearson PTE Academic trainer who specialises in helping students master Speaking and Writing under exam conditions. With 3+ years of…
Pearson PTE Academic trainer focused on the two modules where most students lose their score: Speaking and Writing.
PTE Academic scores enabling skills across tasks rather than marking each task in isolation, which is why a student can feel fluent in conversation and still land in the 50s. Esha's coaching starts from that gap. Her focus is the two modules where the scoring model is least forgiving and where most Score Smart students arrive stuck.
On Speaking, the algorithm rewards continuous delivery: steady pace, natural phrasing, minimal hesitation. A restart or a filler sound costs oral fluency marks even when every word is correct. On Writing, form marks are lost to word count and structure before content is ever assessed. Both are fixable habits rather than English problems, and both respond quickly to targeted drilling.
Templates are useful and widely misused. A memorised essay frame that ignores the prompt scores worse than plain writing, because Task Achievement is assessed first. Esha teaches templates as scaffolding — a reliable structure you fill with a genuine response to the question in front of you, not a block of text you reproduce regardless.
The same applies to Describe Image. Students who try to narrate every detail run out of time and lose fluency. The approach she drills is to lead with the overall trend, then support it, then stop cleanly.
Esha is a Pearson PTE Academic trainer with over three years of coaching experience and a personal PTE Academic score of 79 or above. She teaches PTE Academic across Score Smart's group and one-to-one programs.