IELTS-Vs-PTE Comparison by Divine

IELTS vs PTE

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1.	IELTS is accepted globally by more than 11,000 organizations including universities, professional bodies, employers, and Australian student visa and migration applications. The IELTS General Training test is the only non- academic test of English accepted for migration to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and United Kingdom.	PTE Academic is accepted for study applications by thousands of academic programs globally and is approved for all Australian student visa and migration applications.
2.	The IELTS Speaking test is face-to-face with a human examiner in a private and quiet room with no other test takers. IELTS Speaking examiners may repeat or rephrase a question upon request.	PTE Academic test takers are tested by their ability to produce spoken English in an academic environment (reading aloud in a partitioned booth with other test takers in the room). The Speaking test microphone will switch off automatically if a test taker is silent for more than 3 seconds.
3.	In IELTS you may skip questions and come back to them to complete or check your answer at a later time. IELTS doesn't time the individual questions.	In PTE Academic you can only navigate forward through questions and you must correct mistakes before moving onto the next question. The individual questions are also timed.
4.	With IELTS, you get plenty of time to show your English skills. There's no need to rush through your test. You get 1 hour each for Writing and Reading and have about 30 mins for the Listening test, and 15 minutes for your Speaking test	When you sit PTE, you need to complete your entire test in just over 2 hours.
5.	IELTS has both Traditional Pen & paper and Computer Based Exam methods	The PTE test is all computer-based and marked by a machine. No Pen & paper testing system is there.
6.	In IELTS, your reading, writing, listening and speaking skills are assessed separately. So, your reading test only looks at your reading, and not speaking at the same time.	in PTE there are many integrated questions such as - Listening and Speaking in the Speaking portion of the exam, Reading and Writing in the Reading part, or Reading and Speaking in the Speaking part.
7.	With IELTS the reading and listening tests are auto-marked, but the speaking and writing test are looked at by a real human.	PTE is automatically machine scored. Bias can occur by machine scoring some parts of the test. MIT university in the US researched how this bias can occur
8.	IELTS is the only major test to offer One Skill Retake. You can now retake any component of the test; Listening, Reading, Writing or Speaking. It's perfect if you want to improve on one area instead of redoing a full test. (IELTS One Skill Retake is currently available at selected IELTS on Computer centers in Australia, Cambodia, India, and Philippines and will continue to roll out globally.)	With PTE, you need to book, pay, and sit a full test again.