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PTE Academic

Scores and results

Your results show an overall score and four skill scores, all from 10 to 90. The overall score is not a simple average of the four.

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How the score works

Your results show an overall score and four skill scores, all from 10 to 90.

10 to 90

Overall score and a score for each skill: Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing.

Not an average

The overall score is not a simple average of the four skills.

Integrated

The same task can add points to two skills.

By type

Each task type is scored its own way: correct or incorrect, partial credit, or on several factors.

Institutions usually ask for an overall score and sometimes a minimum in each skill.

The scale and CEFR levels

Pearson aligns the 10 to 90 scale with the CEFR levels.

A1

A2

B1

B2

C1

C2

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Score	CEFR level
85 to 90	C2
76 to 84	C1
59 to 75	B2
43 to 58	B1
30 to 42	A2
10 to 29	A1

How each task type is scored

Knowing how a task is scored changes your strategy: where wrong answers cost points, guessing costs you.

Scoring type	Tasks	What it means
Correct or incorrect	Multiple Choice Single Answer, Highlight Correct Summary, Select Missing Word, Answer Short Question	One point if you get it right, zero if you get it wrong.
Partial credit	Fill in the Blanks, Reorder Paragraph, Write from Dictation	Points for each gap, each pair of paragraphs in the right order or each correct word.
Partial with deductions	Multiple Choice Multiple Answers, Highlight Incorrect Words	Each correct response adds a point and each error takes one away, never going below zero.
Several factors	Read Aloud, Repeat Sentence, Describe Image, Retell Lecture, Summarize Group Discussion, Respond to a Situation, Summarize Written Text, Write Essay, Summarize Spoken Text	Content, form and quality of language, such as pronunciation, fluency, grammar and vocabulary.

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