Strategy, score guides and exam news for PTE Academic, PTE Core and Academic UKVI, built around the post-August-2025 exam.
Target PTE scores for Australian and UK visas in 2026, corrected for the 2025 Home Affairs recalibration and the UK's B1 to B2 Skilled Worker rule.
PTE Superior English is not a flat 79 anymore. Verified against Home Affairs: Listening 69, Reading 70, Writing 85, Speaking 88, and how to hit each one.
Every PTE Academic question type in 2026: all 22 tasks by section, what each one scores, and which to practise first. Includes the 2 new speaking tasks.
PTE Core and PTE Academic share a name and almost nothing else. Here's which test your visa or university actually accepts, and how to stop confusing the two.
Memorised Describe Image templates used to be the cheat code. After the 2025 refresh they're a liability. Here's how to speak fluently about any image, no script required.
Summarize Spoken Text quietly scores both listening and writing in one task. Most people lose marks the same two ways. Here's a repeatable method that fixes both.
