Applicants are judged on the basis of their speaking and writing skills (together). The ability to present spoken English in academic settings is assessed in the speaking part. For writing part, applicants are expected to write error free academic English with accurate spelling and sentence structuring. Personal Introduction, reading aloud, sentence repetition, image description, summarizing, short answer question, essay writing is conducted to evaluate the proficiency.

Applicants are tested on the basis of their reading skills. It includes 15 to 20 skill items which are assessed consecutively. Diverse response formats are structures to test the competency of the applicant. The formats include fill in the blanks, paragraph reordering and multiple choice questions to test the ability of the applicants. This part also focuses on assessing writing skills since PTE is an integrated skill test.

The listening skills are assessed on the basis of audio or video clips. Applicants have to hear the clips carefully and take notes of the facts they find relevant. After hearing the clips, applicants are asked to summarise the spoken text. You can listen to the clip only once and then have to write the summary presenting the main ideas and supporting points.