For people who are still confused about the
differences between PTE Academic and IELTS, here we have short explanation
about it. IELTS usually tests the language skills such as listening, speaking,
reading, and also writing separately whereas PTE Academic is always known as
integrated skills test so there would be connection between those four skills
and you are not just take those four skills tests at the same time but one skill
and the other would be connected. Simply put, you would answer the questions
that would likely evaluate more than one skill at that time and there also
would not be section for each skill. For instance, you would be asked to read a
text and then summarize it (reading skills and speaking skills).
And about the format, which is the biggest difference,
IELTS is an entirely paper based test even though you can take an IELTS
practice online but in the actual test, it is actually a paper based test, and
what about PTE Academic? This is where the two are different. If IELTS is a
paper based test then it means that PTE Academic is a completely computer based
test. This is why you only need one day to complete your PTE Academic whereas
you will need at least two days to do your IELTS because you need to do
reading, listening, and writing on the same day and then do your speaking test
the next day.
The main difference between these two especially in
the mater of content is that IELTS is less authentic than PTE Academic
specially on the listening section because it is spoken by actors and for PTE
Academic, they use real lectures. The scales of the results are also different.
IELTS is using a 9 band scale whereas PTE Academic is using the scale from
10-90.
