Scoring and skills
How PTE scores are built: communicative and enabling skills
What the 10 to 90 overall score, the four communicative skills and the six enabling skills mean, and how to trace a weak score to tasks.
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Scoring and skills
Understanding the 10 to 90 scale without the myths
What the PTE 10 to 90 scale means, four myths about it, how organisations set their own requirements and how to choose a realistic target.
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Scoring and skills
What a practice score can and cannot tell you
Practice scores are estimates. Here is what a run of them can show, what they cannot, and how to use them without being thrown by one bad day.
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Scoring and skills
One answer, several skills: why some tasks count twice
Some PTE tasks feed more than one skill score. This post explains what that means for practice and gives an example week, but not the exact weights.
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Scoring and skills
Content, fluency and pronunciation: what to fix first
What content, oral fluency and pronunciation mean in speaking answers, what to fix first, and how to turn a practice result into a drill.
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