Explore our guide to the PTE Academic test format and the question types for Speaking & Writing, Reading, and Listening.

A detailed guide to the Speaking & Writing part of the PTE Academic English test. Learn what to expect from each question, and how to answer them effectively.

Explore our guide to the PTE Core test format and the question types for each skill: Speaking & Writing, Reading, and Listening.

A detailed guide to the Reading part of the PTE Academic English test. Learn what to expect from each question, and how to answer them effectively.

Based on thorough analysis by the team, we’ve been able to reduce PTE Academic into a shorter two-hour test that provides the same accurate and reliable results. These changes will impact PTE Academic and PTE Academic UKVI. Sound great, right? Less time testing, and more time to do what you want.

PTE Academic is a computer-based, secure English Language test that assesses the four key skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing. PTE Academic delivers a real-life measure of test takers’ language ability to universities, higher education institutions, government departments and organizations requiring academic English. The use of PTE

PTE Academic is a computer-based English test that assesses your academic-level speaking, writing, reading and listening skills. You take the test in a small, friendly test center environment in just two hours.

View our guide to the PTE Core Speaking & Writing section. Learn what to expect from each question, and how to answer them effectively.

PTE Academic gives you a score from 10–90 on the Global Scale of English, so you can measure your English skills with pinpoint accuracy. Read our guide below to learn more about the broad bands of achievement for PTE.

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