Institutions

We created PTE Academic after years of research by some of the world’s leading experts in language assessment. Our advisory group includes language assessment experts who have helped to rethink the way we assess English: they created the Global Scale of English, which builds upon the Common European Framework and helps to show greater levels of progression for English learners.

Our ongoing research

Assessment is not the same as judgment. We believe PTE Academic is the most objective test of academic English in the world. It doesn’t matter where your students come from or what they look like, PTE Academic’s computer algorithms use AI to only test their English skills. So you can be sure that every test taker is treated with complete fairness, and that you are not missing out on students because of unreliable test scores.

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The purpose of assessment is to precisely capture a test taker’s true level of ability. Thanks to our market-leading AI technology, we believe PTE Academic is the most accurate test of academic English in the world. We demonstrate the accuracy of our tests through a lower standard error of measurement and the precision of our scores.