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| Speaking | Reading | Listening | Writing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Introduction | Reading & Writing: Fill In The Blanks | Summarize Spoken Text | Summarize Written Text |
| Read Aloud | Multiple Choice - Multiple Answers | Multiple Choice - Multiple Answers | Essay |
| Repeat Sentence | Reading: Fill In The Blanks | Listening - Fill in the blanks | |
| Describe Image | Multiple Choice - Single Answer | Highlight Correct Summary | |
| Re-tell Lecture | Multiple Choice- Multiple Answers | ||
| Answer Short Question | Select Missing Words | ||
| Highlight Incorrect Words | |||
| Write from Dictation |
PTE Academic scores are acknowledged by many institutions located in UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and USA. This test is also approved by visa and immigration categories.
While it takes almost the same day of appearing the test or up to 2 days for Academic test takers to receive their results, sometimes it takes 5 working days if further scrutiny against the result takes place to verify the user.
Like IELTS, PTE score is also valid for 2 years from the date of the exam. The test takers will be able to find the expiry date in the result as well.
The total duration of the test is approximately two hours. There are three timed modules: Speaking and Writing, Reading and Listening. Each module contains several question types which are individually timed.
| Part | Content | Time Allowed |
|---|---|---|
| Intro | Introduction | Not timed |
| Part 1 | Speaking and Writing | 54-57 minutes |
| Part 2 | Reading | 29-30 minutes |
| Part 3 | Listening | 30-43 minutes |
For detailed understanding, please refer to updated information mentioned on PTE website.
| Item | Task | Skills assessed | Prompt length | Time to answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read aloud | A text appears on the screen. Read the text aloud | Reading & Speaking | text up to 60 words | varies by item, depending on the length of text |
| Repeat sentence | After listening to a recording of a sentence, repeat the sentence | Listening & Speaking | 3-9 seconds | 15 seconds |
| Describe image | An image appears on the screen. Describe the image in detail | Speaking | N/A | 40 seconds |
| Re-tell lecture | After listening to or watching a lecture, re-tell the lecture in your own words | Listening & Speaking | up to 90 seconds | 40 seconds |
| Answer short question | After listening to a question, answer with a single word or a few words | Listening & Speaking | 3-9 seconds | 10 seconds |
| Summarize written text | After reading a text, write a one-sentence summary of the passage | Reading & Writing | 1 sentence only | 10 minutes |
| Write an essay | Write a 200–300-word essay on a given topic | Writing | text up to 300 words | 20 minutes |
| Item | Task | Skills assessed | Prompt length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading and Writing: Fill in the blanks | A text appears on screen with several gaps. Fill in each gap from a drop-down list of response options | Reading & Writing | text up to 300 words |
| Multiple-choice, choose a multiple answer | After reading a text, answer a multiple-choice question on the content or tone of the text by selecting multiple responses | Reading | text up to 110 words |
| Re-order paragraphs | Several text boxes appear on the screen in random order. Put the text boxes in the correct order | Reading | text up to 150 words |
| Reading: Fill in the blank | A text appears on screen with several gaps. Drag words from the box below to fill the gaps | Reading | text up to 80 words |
| Multiple-choice, choose a single answer | After reading a text, answer a multiple-choice question on the content or tone of the text by selecting one response | Reading | text up to 110 words |
| Item | Task | Skills assessed | Prompt length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summarize spoken text | After listening to a recording, write a 50-70 word summary | Listening & Writing | 60-90 seconds |
| Multiple-choice, choose multiple answers | After listening to a recording, answer a multiple-choice question on the content or tone of the recording by selecting more than one responses | Listening | 40-90 seconds |
| Fill in the blanks | A transcript of a recording appears on screen with several gaps. After listening to the recording, type the missing word in each gap | Listening & Writing | 30-60 seconds |
| Highlight correct summary | After listening to a recording, select the paragraph that best summarizes the recording | Listening & Reading | 30-90 seconds |
| Multiple-choice, choose a single answer | After listening to a recording, answer a multiple-choice question on the content or tone of the recording by selecting one response | Listening | 20-70 seconds |
| Select missing word | At the end of a recording a word or group of words will be replaced by a beep sound. Select the correct response from the given options | Listening | 20-70 seconds |
| Highlight incorrect words | The transcript of a recording appears on the screen. While listening to the recording, identify the words in the transcript that differ from what is said | Listening & Reading | 15-50 seconds |
| Write from dictation | After listening to a recording of a sentence, type the sentence | Listening & Writing | 3-5 seconds |
| PTE Academic | IELTS | PTE Academic | TOEFL iBT |
|---|---|---|---|
| < 30 | 0 -> 4.5 | 40-44 | |
| 36 | 5.0 | 42 | 54-56 |
| 42 | 5.5 | 46 | 65-66 |
| 50 | 6.0 | 50 | 74-75 |
| 58 | 6.5 | 53 | 79-80 |
| 65 | 7.0 | 59 | 87-88 |
| 73 | 7.5 | 64 | 64 |
| 79 | 8.0 | 68 | 99-100 |
| 83 | 8.5 | 72 | 105 |
| 86 | 9.0 | 78 | 113 |
| 84 | 120 |