Guide of Scoring in PTE

 

PTE Score Guide

ALWARDA Enterprises has designed PTE Score Guide for students who wants to learn more about how the different tasks in PTE Academic are scored.

“Our PTE Score Guide will help you to understand your proficiency in PTE”

 

When you complete your PTE Academic test, you receive a Score Report and a Skills Profile to help you understand your test score, your language skill level, and where you can improve.

 

 

 

PTE Scoring System

The PTE uses a scoring system that ranges from 10 to 90. Here is a breakdown of the scoring system for each section:

• Speaking and Writing: 10-90
• Reading: 10-90
• Listening: 10-90

Note: Your overall score is the average of your scores in each section, rounded up to the nearest whole number. For example, if you score 70 in Speaking, 80 in Writing, 60 in Reading, and 75 in Listening, your overall score would be 71.

 

 

PTE Skill Scores

Communicative Skills Scores:

• The communicative skills measure listening, reading, speaking and writing.
• The score range for each skill is 10-90 points.                                                                   

Enabling Skills Scores:

• The enabling skills measure grammar, oral fluency, pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary and written discourse.
• The scores for enabling skills are based on performance on only those tasks that assess these skills specifically.
• The score range for each skill is 10-90 points.

 

 

Ways of Score:

There are two ways in which score points are awarded, as shown below:

Correct or Incorrect:

Some tasks are scored as either correct or incorrect.

Important: If responses are correct, 1 score point will be given, but if they are incorrect, no points are awarded.

Partial Credit:

Other tasks are scored as correct, partially correct or incorrect.

Important: If responses to these tasks are correct, the maximum score points available will be received. If they are only partly correct, some score points will be given, but less than the maximum available. If responses are incorrect, no score points will be received.

 

 

Overview of Scores

Given below are the tables of an overview of how the tasks in the FOUR Modules of PTE Academic are scored.

They show timings, the number of items in any given test, the communicative skills, enabling skills and other elements scored.

 

Speaking and Writing (Approximately 54 – 67 min)
Exam Order	Item Type	Answer Time (Per item)	Number of items	Scoring	Communicative skills, enabling skills and other traits scored
1	Read aloud	Preparation: 30 – 35s Answer: 40s	6 – 7	Partial credit	Reading and Speaking Oral fluency, pronunciation Content
2	Repeat Sentence	No Preparation Answer: 15s	8 – 10	Partial credit	Listening and speaking Oral fluency, pronunciation Content
3	Describe Image	Preparation: 25s Answer: 40s	3 – 4	Partial credit	Speaking Oral fluency, pronunciation Content
4	Re-Tell Lecture	Preparation: 10s Answer: 40s	1 – 2	Partial credit	Listening and Speaking Oral fluency, pronunciation Content
5	Answer Short Question	No Preparation Answer: 10s	5 – 6	Correct/ Incorrect	Listening and speaking Vocabulary
6	Summarize Written Text	10 min per item (Individually timed)	1 – 2	Partial credit	Reading and writing Grammar, vocabulary Content, form
7	Write Essay	20 min per item (Individually timed)	1	Partial credit	Writing Grammar, vocabulary, spelling, written discourse Content; development, structure and coherence.

Reading (Approximately 29 – 30 min)
Exam Order	Item Type	Answer Time (Per item)	Number of items	Scoring	Communicative skills, enabling skills and other traits scored
1	Multiple-choice, choose single answer	Suggested: ≤ 2 min	3 – 4	Correct/ incorrect	Reading
2	Multiple-choice, choose multiple answers	Suggested: ≤ 1 – 1.5 min	1 – 2	Partial credit	Reading
3	Re-order paragraphs	Suggested: ≤ 1.5 – 2 min	2 – 3	Partial credit	Reading
4	Reading: Fill in the blanks	Suggested: ≤ 2 min	4 – 5	Partial credit	Reading
5	Reading and writing: Fill in the blanks	Suggested: ≤ 1 – 1.5 min	1 – 2	Partial credit	Reading and writing

Listening (Approximately 30 – 43 min)
Exam Order	Item Type	Answer Time (Per item)	Number of items	Scoring	Communicative skills, enabling skills and other traits scored
1	Summarize Spoken Text	10 min per item (Individually timed)	1 – 2	Partial credit	Listening and Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary
2	Multiple–Choice, Choose Multiple Answers	Suggested: ≤ 1 – 1.5 min	1 – 2	Partial credit	Listening
3	Fill In the Blanks	Suggested: ≤ 2 min	2 – 3	Partial credit	Listening and Writing, Spelling
4	Highlight Correct Summary	Suggested: ≤ 1 – 1.5 min	1 – 2	Correct/ incorrect	Listening and Writing
5	Multiple-Choice, Choose Single Answer	Suggested: ≤ 1 – 1.5 min	1 – 2	Correct/ incorrect	Listening
6	Select Missing Word	Suggested: ≤ 1 – 1.5 min	1 – 2	Correct/ incorrect	Listening
7	Highlight Incorrect Words	Suggested: ≤ 2 min	2 – 3	Partial credit	Listening and Reading
8	Write From Dictation	Suggested: ≤ 2 min	3 – 4	Partial credit	Listening and Writing

Things to Focus:

Writing

Speaking

Reading

Listening

 

Overall, PTE SCORE GUIDE will surely let you understand the PTE score pattern, you can set realistic goals and work towards achieving a high score in each section of the exam and we also let you understand what your scores mean and how to improve them, moreover don’t hesitate to seek help from our qualified instructors.

Good luck with your PTE exam!

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