Designed around the current PTE Academic structure, timing and question types: Speaking and Writing, Reading and Listening, about two hours in all, scored 10–90. That includes Summarize Group Discussion and Respond to a Situation, the two speaking tasks added for tests from 7 August 2025.
Pearson scores PTE Academic by combining automated scoring with human rating for some responses. The score report from a TestPrep practice test is an estimate on the same 10–90 scale, not a Pearson score.
PTE Academic at a glance
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Full-length tests in three parts: Speaking and Writing, Reading and Listening. There is a free PTE practice test to start with. Each test can be taken twice.
The test screen, the report and the follow-up, drawn with made-up numbers. Nothing here starts a test or touches your account.
Item-by-item timing, a microphone check before Speaking and recording that starts on cue, as Pearson's own software does it. There is no going back to an earlier item.
See the available testsSample screen · illustrative numbers
Placeholder question area · no real question
Showing one item
An estimated overall score on the 10–90 scale with the four communicative skills beneath it. Pearson's own scoring may differ, so treat it as a practice estimate.
Compare test bundlesSample score report · made-up numbers, not a prediction
Pick the task type that pulled your score down and practice it on its own in the question bank, at the difficulty you set.
Open the PTE Academic question bankSample follow-up · illustrative numbers
Medium · 10 questions · PTE Academic
A drawing of the feature: it opens no test and stores nothing.
PTE Academic is a computer-based English test of about two hours in three parts: Speaking and Writing (76–84 minutes), Reading (23–30 minutes) and Listening (31–39 minutes). The overall score runs from 10 to 90. Two speaking tasks, Summarize Group Discussion and Respond to a Situation, were added for tests from 7 August 2025, and some responses are now partly scored by human raters.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Speaking and Writing76–84 minutes | — | 76–84 minutes |
| Reading23–30 minutes | — | 23–30 minutes |
| Listening31–39 minutes | — | 31–39 minutes |
Scoring combines automated scoring with human rating for some responses since the August 2025 update.