PTE is an English Language Test that is used to assess candidates’ overall English language competence. PTE is a computer-based worldwide test that focuses on real-life English used in academic settings. Admission to educational institutions requires a PTE Academic score. PTE is divided into three sections: speaking and writing, reading, and listening.
You need to complete between 52 and 64 tasks of 20 different PTE task types. Your performance across the entire test will evaluate your overall score. The overall score ranges between 10–90 points. But the overall score is not an average calculation of the communicative skills scores.
Communicative skills scores
The communicative skills are listening, reading, speaking, and writing and their score range are 10–90 points.
Some tasks assess more than one skill at the same time and they are called integrated skills tasks. Integrated Skills assess reading and speaking, listening and speaking, reading and writing, listening and writing or listening and reading. The scores on these tasks contribute to the score of both communicative skills that are assessed at the same time
Skills Profile
To describe more about performance, PTE started a new “Your Skills Profile” parameter, that Students can find on “myPTE” tab. In skill profile, there are 8 differents parameters to judge students’ performance.
The blue performance bars on the right give an indication of how well the test-taker did in each area. The symbols in the middle show the language category (or categories) where each skill belongs (listening, reading, speaking, or writing). This can help with PTE preparation as you can clearly and easily see which areas your students need to focus on if they want to get a higher score in the future.
Under each parameter, there are Skill Descriptions and Recommendations on how a student can improve his or her skills.
Correct or incorrect & Partial credit
The PTE score is obtained through the use of automated scoring technologies. All objects are scored by machine. Some tasks just award points if the answer is accurate whether the response is correct or incorrect. While others are based on correctness, formal aspects (e.g., whether it is over or under the word limit) and the quality of the response (e.g., fluency and pronunciation in the task Retell lecture).
There are two ways in which score points are awarded:
Correct or incorrect
Some tasks are scored as either correct or incorrect. 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. 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.
Read About PTE Scoring Matrix: https://blog.apical.io/pte-scoring-matrix/
Scoring in PTE is pretty easy if a student follows proper guidelines throughout the preparation time. Apical provides all sorts of materials including recorded lectures, trainer’s consultation, and any time practice in the portal.
Apical has a Learning Management System (LMS) platform powered by Artificial intelligence, which is a next-generation speech recognition technology. Cutting-edge technologies power our practice and learning portal (ALMS) through Google, Amazon, Open AI, etc. The ALMS (Apical Learning Management System) not only gives faster access to the PTE speaking section but also assists you with all the improvement tools. The apical platform enables the most important questions filtered from the PTE exam to be practiced.
Apical team has been in the field of English Language Test preparation coaching since 2014 and has helped hundreds and thousands of students to achieve their required scores in the PTE test in the last 6 years.
