Score Comparison vs Other Tests

PTE Academic is scored against the Global Scale of English. The Global Scale of English is a granular score scale from 10 – 90. Students receive an overall score on this scale, which gives an accurate assessment of their English ability. Find out more about the Global Scale of English.

Note: A concordance table is a guide to how PTE scores relate to other tests scores. We advise you to always check with the University you are applying to as to what scores they require for PTE.

In December 2020, we released some research showing updated concordance between PTE Academic and IELTS Academic. PTE scores and scoring have not changed.  View the full report here.

Our automated scoring system is based on complex algorithms that were trained by testing a data sample of over 10,000 students with over 120 native languages.

We fed thousands of human marks into our system and now find that the standard error measurement between our system and a human rater is less than between one human rater to another. Learn about automated scoring.