Score Comparison vs Other Tests

PTE Academic provides a detailed snapshot of every test-takers English language proficiency. With PTE Academic, students receive an overall English score, as well as scores for individual English sub-skills and enabling skills.

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

PTE Academic is scored using automated scoring.

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.