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Per Pearson’s official July 2025 concordance (updated for the enhanced PTE Academic), IELTS overall 8.0 maps to PTE Academic 79. Other key points: IELTS 7.0 ≈ PTE 63, IELTS 7.5 ≈ PTE 71, IELTS 8.5 ≈ PTE 86, and IELTS 9.0 ≈ PTE 90. Older tables that put IELTS 6.5 around PTE 58–64 are superseded — the current table maps IELTS 6.5 to PTE 55. Concordance is a comparison, not an acceptance guarantee.

No. Pearson calculates the official overall score from your performance on every scored item across the whole test — it is not a simple average of Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. A four-skill average (which this calculator shows) is a useful estimate that is usually within a few points of the real overall, but your score report is the only official number.

For PTE Academic tests taken on or after 7 August 2025, DHA uses component-specific bands, not a flat score. Superior English (+20 points): Listening 69, Reading 70, Writing 85, Speaking 88. Proficient English (+10 points): Listening 58, Reading 59, Writing 69, Speaking 76. Competent English (0 points, the minimum to apply): Listening 47, Reading 48, Writing 51, Speaking 54. All four skills must clear a band in the same test.

Pearson’s official position is that your score report is valid for two years from the test date. For Australian skilled migration, DHA accepts English test results for approximately three years — a separate, longer rule than Pearson’s own two-year report window. Individual universities and regulators (e.g. AHPRA, which accepts results up to two years old) set their own windows, so always check your specific pathway.

Yes. Pearson offers a rescore of your most recent test, requested by phone through Pearson Customer Support within its 14-calendar-day window, for USD 160. A human expert rescores your entire test, and the new score replaces the old one: it can go down as well as up. The rescore fee is refunded if your overall or communicative skills scores change; the test fee is never refunded. Request it before you share your scores and before you schedule another test. Pearson publishes no rescore turnaround time and no success rate, so treat any figure you see quoted as a guess.

Pearson’s July 2025 concordance maps IELTS overall 6.5 to PTE Academic 55. That is a comparison between two tests, not an admission rule: each university publishes its own PTE minimum, often with per-skill floors, so check the course page before you book.

No. Pearson removed the Enabling Skills section from score reports in November 2021. Your report shows the overall score and the four communicative skills (Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing). In myPTE you also see a Skills Profile with performance bars by skill area, visible only to you and not shared with institutions.

No. For the DHA points test, all four component scores must come from one PTE Academic score report. There is no rule that lets you take Writing from one test and Speaking from another to reach Competent, Proficient or Superior.