- First and foremost, unlike IELTS but like TOEFL, PTE is an online internet based test.
- More importantly, PTE is totally free of human intervention; it is a Computer-based Computer-assessed test.
- All the items in PTE (Academic) are machine scored.
- In a way, PTE is the new age language ability test that is free of any cultural or native skills bias. Other tests of similar nature involve human intervention at some stage where assessments can — knowingly or unknowingly — get influenced by external factors, such as, appearance, personality, body language, flow of thoughts, apart from cultural bias. Not so in the case of automated scoring system, where impartiality on all these counts is built-in and one can be sure to be judged only on language performance.
- An indirect but equally important benefit of the computer-based computer-assessed interface of PTE (Academic) is that the assessment is instantaneous and, at least theoretically, the result can be made available to the student immediately after the test. This is a far cry from tests like IELTS and TOEFL that typically take a fortnight to make the results available.
- Unlike IELTS and TOEFL that assess the test taker for communicative skills only (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing), PTE also assesses the test taker for enabling skills (Grammar, Oral Fluency, Pronunciation, Spelling, Vocabulary, Written Discourse). Apart from the composite score, PTE Academic rates the test taker separately on each of these parameters (4 + 6), to a scale of 10-90.
How is PTE (Academic) Different from IELTS and TOEFL?
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PTE (Academic) Structure
Part 1: Speaking and writing (77-93 minutes)
Part 2: Reading (32- 41 minutes)
Part 3: Listening (45- 57 minutes)
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