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PTE Score Format: Understanding Enabling Skills scoresĮnabling Skills highlight the ability of individuals to communicate in spoken or written English. Although actual calculation of scores is more complicated (and Pearson doesn’t share all the details), you can assume that the number is the actual score for practice purposes.įor more details about raw score calculation, see below. In our example, the figure comes at 62 out of 90. To get a rough estimate, you could divide 20 by 29 and multiply by 90. If your raw score is 20 out of available 29, it is converted into a scale of 90. Your raw scores are converted into a scale of 10 to 90 by computer algorithm.įor example, if you get two Summarize written text questions and one Write essay question in the exam, the total raw score available for the Writing section will be 29. The total number of marks for all the questions is not fixed, as the number of questions that each test taker gets is different. Unlike traditional exams, you are not asked several questions worth 90 marks. Remember that the score you get in the test is not marks but a scale. The score is based on English language skills such as grammar, oral fluency, pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, and written discourse.

Quality of response is the third factor used to score Speaking and Writing answers.

Partial score is given if the answer is over or under the requirement. For example, the Write Essay question in the Writing Section mandates that answers be within the word limit of 200 to 300 words.

Some questions require a specific form of answer.

This applies to questions like Answer Short Question and Fill in the Blanks. A correct answer gets 1 point, while an incorrect answer gets no point.

Some questions have a single short correct answer.

If you are looking for a breakdown of the PTE exam format, click here » PTE marking system in short The range for each of these scores is 10 to 90, based on the Global Scale of English, which is different from the 9-band scoring system of IELTS. Institutions and immigration departments set a minimum score criteria for overall as well as the four bands.įor example, to get enrolled in the MBA course of University of Sydney, you need to score a minimum of 68 overall and at least 54 in each band. Instead, the overall score is calculated by factoring in different language skills, including grammar, oral fluency, pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, and written discourse.įor any purpose – university admission or visa – the overall score and the four Communicative Skills scores matter. The overall score is not simply an average of the four Communicative Skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing.

You can see the overall score of 72 in the top right corner and the score for the four sections just below it: 78 in Listening, 90 in Reading, 64 in Speaking, and 82 in Writing. 11 Still not sure about the damned computer? PTE Academic Score Report This is a sample report card of a PTE test.