Pearson Test of English (PTE) An introduction It's official now! IRCC has added PTE in their list of acceptable English…
CanadaExpress Entry1Pearson Test of English (PTE) An introduction It's official now!!! IRCC has added PTE in their list of acceptable English tests for Canadian immigration (alongwith IELTS and CELPIP). There are three versions of PTE: (1) PTE Academic (2) PTE Academic- UK VI (3) PTE Core The acceptable version for IRCC is PTE Core (except SDS. For SDS, PTE Academic is accepted). The exam formats of PTE Academic and PTE core are 95% same and I've already given PTE Academic with the following scores: Speaking: 90/90 Writing: 90/90 Reading: 85/90 Listening: 90/90 So, I thought of sharing some points about how this test operates so that Canadian PR aspirants can get an idea. (1) No human involvement: That's the main feature of PTE. There are no human examiners involved at all. The entire test is checked by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. (2) The duration of this test is 2 hours and all 4 modules are te
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PTE for Canadian immigration: which version counts, how it's scored, and CLB mapping gotchas
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Guna Deepak No, you are not missing anything. You are right. CLB 9 in the Writing module starts at 88. Screenshot of the official PTE CLB scoring chart from IRCC's website is attached.
Guna Deepak The maximum score is 90. The + sign seems to be a technical glitch from IRCC (which is also an indication that everything is normal in IRCC 😜😜).
Mujtaba Khan Mine is PTE Academic. So any CLB level does not apply to my scores.
But it's only for EE, if we want to go via the PNP route, it's not valid right?
Guna Deepak Yes. I guess, PNPs will eventually add it as well.
Faizan Rauf what is 90+ ? I thought the maximum score was 90.
Can u tell me about the minimum required score of the PTE?