The Pearson PTE test is administered, evaluated, and scored using a computer-automated scoring system. Essentially, there is no human involvement in the marking process of the PTE Academic exam. This may sound incredible, but PTE Academic has been successfully using software technology to judge test takers’ answers and automatically compute an English language proficiency score since 2009.
The central aspect to understanding while taking the PTE exam is transferable scores; unlike the other English tests, the PTE exam is comparatively elementary, the reason being transferrable scores, all the modules are interrelated with each other, which means if you are doing the Speaking module, you are not only going to get the scores in Speaking but also in Reading and Listening, and just not 5-10 marks, a significant chunk of scores get transferred from speaking to other modules and hence, speaking is called the backbone of your PTE exam. Understanding transferrable scores and timewaster questions plays a significant role in your path toward your desired score.
So, while doing READ ALOUD, the skills that you are using are Reading and Speaking, and hence, the marks are transferred to the reading module as well from the content; oral fluency and pronunciation scores remain in your Speaking module, similarly, when you are doing REPEAT SENTENCES AND RETELL LECTURE, you are using your Listening and Speaking skills. Hence, the marks are transferred to the listening module for the content parameter, oral fluency, and pronunciation score to remain in the Speaking module. Describe image scores stay in the Speaking module, as it only checks your ability to describe the image fluently and clearly.
Moreover, while the Summarised Written Text is a part of the Writing module, you are using your Reading skills to get a brief idea about the passage and summarise it; hence, it gives you transferable scores in the reading module. In essay writing, we all know what essays are. You give your opinion about a specific topic, be it argumentative, opinion, or problem solution; it solely gives you the marks in the Writing module, as it is checking your ability to answer to the topic along with grammar, vocabulary, development, and coherence, linguistic skills and spellings skill-set is majorly checked which will boost your writing scores.
Furthermore, the reading module of the PTE examination is quite brainstorming; why?
Because your skill set for grammar, vocabulary, and collocations are particularly checked in this module, Multiple choice single answers and multiple multiple-choice answers are your timewaster questions; marks for these questions are pretty negligible, which means you are not going to waste your time while doing these questions, talking about Reorder paragraphs, you are getting marks for each adjacent pair correctly done.
The most crucial questions are the fill in the blanks (Drag and Drop) and fill in the blanks (Dropdowns), since each correctly completed blank is worth one mark. You cannot fudge your answers on these questions; if you want to score higher, you must answer all of the blanks with 100% accuracy.
Lastly, let’s talk about the lengthiest module of your PTE examination, the Listening module, which consists of 8 questions in total and is segregated into two sections, section A and section B. Section A only has one question: Summarise Spoken Text, now what happens in this, you will listen to audio, the audio maybe for 1 minute or 1.5 minutes, now while the audio is playing, all you have to do is take notes, you are listening to audio and writing the appropriate summary for it, that means you are using your writing skills; hence you will be getting your scores in the writing module from this section, each SST is of 10 marks, half goes in Listening, and half goes into writing.
Section B comprises seven types of questions, out of which 4 are time wasters (scores are negligible) and 3 are essential questions (right or wrong answers). MCQ multiple answers, MCQ single answers, highlight correct summary and select missing words (As soon as the audio stops, click the most preferred answer and go next asap) TIME WASTER. Essential questions are: Fill in the blanks, Highlight incorrect words, and Write from Dictations. Listening- Fill in the blanks; pretty straightforward; each blank correctly spelled will give you one mark.
Similarly, when highlighting incorrect words, each highlighted incorrect word will provide you with one mark; just be aware that it has a negative marking, so do not highlight any word you like; only incorrect words must be highlighted. Finally, let’s talk about the most critical question in your PTE examination, Write from Dictation, wherein each word in the sentence will give you one mark; that means if a sentence has 14 words, that means 14 marks, and this is the reason why it is an essential question because of the weightage of each word scorings.
PTE is also tricking you by keeping the most critical question, Write from dictation, right at the end so that any student who does not know timewaster questions will waste their time on miscellaneous queries and will not have time for Write from Dictation, which means we must secure time for the last question of your PTE exam.
As per the Australian Immigration,
- 50 or 50+ is equivalent to 6 each in IELTS
- 65 or 65+ is equivalent to 7 each in IELTS
- 79 or 79+ is equivalent to 8 each in IELTS