PTE Academic: Skill Assessment

In PTE there are total 10 skills which are assessed on the scale of 10-90, where 10 is for the worst and 90 for the best. These 10 skills are subdivided into two categories: Communicative Skills and Enabling Skills.
 

Communicative Skills	Enabling Skills
Listening Speaking Reading  Writing	Grammar Oral Fluency Pronunciation Spelling Vocabulary Written Discourse

Here, enabling skills only assess the performance in speaking and writing. 
Do you know, there are many item types in PTE in which multiple skills are assessed?
Yes, it is true, there are a number of item types in PTE in which the multiple skills are assessed, in other words, those item types are linked with two or three modules. In simpler words, they will add scores into the score of other communicative skills, hence, it will uplift your score in individual parts.
Those item types are as follows:
 

Item Types	Skills Assessed
Speaking
Read a loud	Speaking, Reading, Oral Fluency, Pronunciation
Repeat the Sentence	Speaking, Listening, Oral Fluency, Pronunciation
Describe the Image	Speaking, Oral Fluency, Pronunciation
Re-tell Lecture	Speaking, Listening, Oral Fluency, Pronunciation
Answer Short Questions	Speaking, Listening, Vocabulary
Writing
Summarize the Written Text	Writing, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary
Writing Essay	Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary, written Discourse, Spelling
Reading
Multiple Choice Questions: (Choose Single Answer)	Reading
Multiple Choice Questions: (Choose Multiple Answer)	Reading
Re-Order Paragraph	Reading
Reading: Fill in the Blanks	Reading
Reading and Writing: Fill in the Blanks	Reading, Writing
Listening
Summarize the spoken Text	Listening, Writing, Grammar, Written Discourse, Spelling
Multiple Choice Questions: Choose Single Answer	Listening
Multiple Choice Questions- Choose Multiple answers	Listening
Fill in the blanks	Listening, Writing
Highlight the correct Summary	Listening, Reading
Select Missing Words	Listening
Highlight the Incorrect words	Listening, Reading
Write from dictation	Listening, Writing

The misconception
Since PTE is quite a flexible test and its approach to answers is quite easy, so, some candidates misinterpret things about the assessment. 

For example, writing:    
The first writing task is Summarize the Written Text, in which the test taker has to type a summary of the given text using one sentence and between 5 to 75 words. 
There are 7 marks for each summary and they are segregated as :
Form: 1 (Should be in a single sentence and within the word limit)
Content: 2 (How effectively the main ideas are chosen)
Grammar: 2 (Correct sentence frame)
Spelling: 2 
Now a few students have the misconception that 'if they will write the summary by using two or more sentences, they will lose marks only of the Form and rest of the 6 marks will be credited to them'. Well, unfortunately, it is a MISCONCEPTION. If the summary is in two or more sentences, the task will be counted as invalid, and no score based on any skills would be rewarded. 
However, with a word limit, this is not the case. If you exceed the word limit, there would be a penalty but the other elements will still be evaluated. 
Hence, don't fall prey to such misconceptions and misguidance. Understand the scoring while preparing for the PTE Test. 
All the best!