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1 hour ago, Krishna115 said:

Hello everyone,

 

I have recently received an email from info@ptezone.com.au stating that they will provide valuable material from previous tests as well as they provide questions relating to the future tests as well. They are assuring that I can see almost 70% of those questions in the exam. Can we believe this? they are charging an amount of 80AUD

Did you google ptezone? I don't see them as a company, and their website appears to be nothing, but there is a blog post from someone blogging at that "ptezone" and they didn't appear to use the resources they are selling you. I suggest you do some research before spending your money. 

5 minutes ago, Ken said:

That makes no sense Steve. PTE and Pearson Test (of English) are one and the same thing. There are five different tests you can take. The alternatives to PTE are IELTS, OET, TOEFL iBT and CAE.

I am guessing he meant IELTS as you also can't fail PTE by half a point, that's an IELTS thing.

You can sit the test as many times as you like, no result "invalidates another", they aren't submitted anywhere unless you tick that they want to be, and all you need to do is submit the test result that meets the requirements you are trying to meet. 

Good luck!

Seems to me your vocabulary is OK, but not great, but your spelling and grammar are bad, and that's letting you down. I think it's pretty clear where you need to focus your efforts.

You may want to take a look at their score guide pdf on the Pearson website.

I think so George. The marks are out of 9, as a University educated native English speaker I got 9, 9, 9, 8.5, without any preparation. 

If you are relatively well educated and articulate you should be fine with IELTS, and as KristyJ said, while the PTE seems to give better results for lots of people, the format is not ideal due to more background noise, so unless you are struggling to get the right score with IELTS I would try IELTS first.

Best of luck.

Nicely done! Congrats!

For those people requesting free reference materials/books, I totally understand, it's nice when stuff is free, but if your future in Australia is dependant on your English skills, you might want to invest some money in it.

We regularly advise clients, if you have a path, grab it, before someone else does, or something else changes, and you find you don't have a path any more. It's your future that's at stake...

Hi all,

 

Just got my scores.

 

Listening : 80

Reading :- 84

Speaking :- 64

Writing :- 86

 

Totally lost. I don't know how to improve my speaking as the test was really easy and I think I didn't miss much questions on the speaking part. Enabling scores for pronunciation and oral fluency were 64 and 70 respectively. This is was my second attempt. I got 63 for speaking last time. Is there any way to improve my pronunciation and oral fluency. Any valuable tips will be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

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We attended a presentation from the guys who run the Pearson tests, they said they don't mark people down based on their accents unless it's hard to actually understand the person. It seems you are being marked down mostly due your pronunciation, so you maybe should look at some elocution lessons to try to fix that.

Hey guys,

So, I just thought I would give some input into this from a migration agent point of view.

We have had lots of clients doing the English tests, and our feeling based on those cases is that 80% to 90% of people are getting better results with PTE. A few get worse results, go figure.

My personal opinion, sheer conjecture, is IELTS used to control the show (as the only test accepted), so they knew they could fail people and those people would just have to come back. I think the PTE guys are trying to steal some of the market share, so they are giving out better results, so that the public and agents recommend them to other people.

Ultimately the reason doesn't matter, only the outcome.

I don't think one test is easier than the other, but I have only sat the IELTS test myself so I don't know from personal experience. I sat IELTS once, didn't prepare (other than through a lifetime of speaking & writing!), and got 9, 9, 9, 8.5.

PS We are mostly dealing with non-native English speakers, so I can't say the same results apply for native speakers.