PTE Academic preparation, live online
PTE Academic is scored by machine, and that is the single most useful fact about preparing for it. Marks come from fluency, pronunciation and content measured against a model rather than from a human's impression, and several task types score two skills at once — a poor read-aloud costs you reading marks as well as speaking. Preparation that ignores how the scoring works leaves points on the table.
What the preparation covers
- Speaking: read aloud, repeat sentence, describe image, re-tell lecture, short answer
- Writing: summarise written text, and the essay, at the length and structure the rubric expects
- Reading: fill in the blanks, re-order paragraphs, multiple choice
- Listening: summarise spoken text, fill in the blanks, highlight incorrect words, write from dictation
- How integrated-skill scoring works, and full-length practice tests marked against it
Group course, or one-to-one
Group · 50 hours
Fifty hours across all four skills, in classes of six. Task types are taught with their scoring rubric in view, so you know which part of an answer is actually being read.
One-to-one
One-to-one lessons for a band you need by a date — usually speaking fluency, or the summarise-written-text and essay tasks, where a repeatable structure moves the score fastest.
What PTE Academic preparation costs
Shown in US dollars. Charged in US dollars — there is no conversion at checkout to be surprised by.
One-to-one lessons
One-to-one lessons for a band you need by a date — usually speaking fluency, or the summarise-written-text and essay tasks, where a repeatable structure moves the score fastest.
Single lesson
One 90-minute lesson, to see how it goes.
$6510 lessons
Prepaid, usable across subjects where the exam has them.
$630$63 per lesson
20 lessons
The usual choice for a full preparation run.
$1,200$60 per lesson
Group course · 50 hours
Fifty hours across all four skills, in classes of six. Task types are taught with their scoring rubric in view, so you know which part of an answer is actually being read.
- $900
Paid in full
The whole course, one payment.
- $475
In instalments
Per instalment, taken monthly.
Not satisfied after the first week of a group course, or after your first private lesson? Full refund.