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Hi, Just to share, from my last post, I had retaken PTE again with tips about the microphone in mind, but unfortunately, each speaking results ended up worst than the previous. At that point, I accepted the fact that PTE probably wasn’t for me as for some reason the mic just couldn’t capture my voice so no point spending more money retrying on the same system. I switched to IELTS and got a score of 9 for speaking, listening, reading and 8 for writing. My suggestion for those still struggling with the speaking part for PTE, as long as your writing is strong (I would have to admit the expectation for writing is a lot higher for IELTS but at least it is something u can work on improving constructively), don’t waste your time on PTE. Best of Luck!

Hi NorthernLights, was wondering if you ever had another around with PTE Academic? I recently had the same experience as you. I am a Native English speaker, and during my first round, I was short of 1 point (ie: 64) for speaking. I told myself that I would better prepare myself for the second round. When the 2nd round results came out, I scored a measly 48 points for speaking! Which is completely illogical as I spoke fluently and made no mistakes at all and scored almost 90 for the rest of the sections... I highly suspect there is some technical problems with their computers but in no way I would be able to prove that. I also did my research to find out that a rescore is not advisable as they would just rerun it through the computer again and you'd just end up with the same scores with more money taken. I am now contemplating of switching to IELTS as I have completely lost confidence and doubt the quality of assessment for PTE. Anyone has a similar experience and care to shed some light?