INTRODUCTION
PTE Academic is a globally-recognized English language proficiency test for study or work abroad. It is visa-approved for Australia and New Zealand and accepted by universities across major English-speaking destinations including UK, USA, Ireland, and Canada.
PTE Academic is designed to test your ability to use English in an academic setting, by using real academic material across a range of subjects. It typically gives results in 5 days and is designed to ensure complete fairness for all its candidates. For all these reasons and more, PTE Academic is an increasingly popular and trusted English test!
Quick Info
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Standard Test Fee (for Indian nationals): INR 13,300 (INR 11,271 + 18% GST)
(as of October 2018, subject to change without prior notice)
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Test Dates: Flexible, available 360 days of the year
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Sending scores: Can be sent to unlimited institutions, at no additional cost
Structure and Time Limit
PTE Academic is an online test, and is taken in a single three-hour session, involving four components which test your major English skills – speaking and writing (which are taken together), listening and reading.
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77-93 minutes
Speaking: Personal introduction, Read aloud, Repeat sentence, Describe image, Re-tell lecture, Answer short question Writing: Summarize written text, Essay (20 mins) |
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32-40 minutes
Fill in the blanks (reading and writing, reading), Multiple choice (multiple answers, single answer), Re-order paragraphs |
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Optional break – 10 minutes |
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45-57 minutes
Summarize spoken text, Multiple choice (multiple answer, single answer), Fill in the blanks, Highlight correct summary, Select missing word, Highlight incorrect words, Write from dictation
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Tips and Strategies
Do you think scoring 90/90 in PTE Academic is an impossible task? Well, with our help, it needn’t be!
Here are a few of our tips:
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Build your vocabulary skills: including knowing a number of words, what they mean, and how to use (and not use!) them. From comprehending everything you read/hear in the test, to crafting excellent essays, a great vocabulary will take you far! Reading and listening to good material are your best bet.
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Practice: every exam has patterns – of questions, topics and so on. The more you practice, the more familiar you become with these patterns, and the easier it is to ace the test! For this, we recommend practising with mock tests, under both relaxed and exam-conditions.
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Get a trainer: to help polish your language skills, aid you with your mock tests, help you identify your own mistakes, strengths and areas of improvement – basically everything that goes into prepping for PTE – a skilled trainer is an invaluable asset!
Additionally, for each of the 20 question-types you will encounter during the PTE test, we have put together a set of tips to help you ace it! Look out for our individual blog posts on PTE test components!
At Hurray, we offer PTE classroom Training and Online PTE training, and have designed a formula that has been delivering results for years, and that takes YOU and your individual needs into consideration! So, if you’re looking for PTE training with a degree of flexibility, and guaranteed results, you need look no further!
Reach out to us via email: info@hurrayedutech.com or phone: 8971357938, for more details.
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