PTE Academic preparation, built for students in Nepal
Every task type, the real timings, and a score breakdown that tells you which part of the test is costing you points.
Built for learners preparing from Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan and across Nepal
What is PTE Academic?
PTE Academic is taken on a computer and scored by AI with human oversight, which is why results usually reach you within 48 hours. It is accepted for study and visa applications in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada.
The scoring is also what makes it hard to prepare for on paper. Your speaking score depends on things a notebook cannot show you — how fluently you spoke, how clearly you pronounced each word, whether you hesitated. You need to hear the recording back and see where the marks went.
That is the gap Prepyo fills: you practise the actual task, you get the breakdown straight away, and the tasks you keep losing marks on come back until they stop being weak spots.
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PTE Academic at a glance
The test format as published by Pearson.
- Delivery
- On a computer, at a test centre
- Structure
- Speaking & Writing, Reading, Listening — one sitting
- Length
- About 2 hours 15 minutes, 22 task types
- Score range
- 10–90, on the Global Scale of English
- Results
- Usually within 48 hours
- Common target
- 79+ overall (about IELTS 8.0)
See where you gain and lose marks in PTE
Multi-skill radar analysis that pinpoints exactly where you gain and lose marks across all 4 communicative skills.
Most students fail PTE or IELTS because they practice what they already know. Prepyo pinpoints the exact tasks dragging your score down so you improve faster.
Accelerated Diagnostic Sessions
Map your baseline across all 4 skills in 20 minutes without sitting a 3-hour exam.
Multi-Skill Radar Breakdown
Instant visual metrics for Speaking fluency, Writing coherence, Reading, and Listening.
Criteria-Based AI Scoring
Scored against the criteria Pearson and IELTS publish, so you have a close estimate of your band before test day.
- Speaking 86
- Writing 74
- Reading 78
- Listening 82
Master every single task type
Each task type is practised on its own, in the format the real test uses, with feedback the moment you answer.
Read Aloud
Scored for both content and how clearly you say it — the task where pronunciation and pace show up first.
Repeat Sentence
Short memory and fluency task. Marks come from how much of the sentence you reproduce, not a perfect accent.
Describe Image
Forty seconds to turn a chart into fluent speech. A repeatable structure beats improvising every time.
Re-tell Lecture
Listening and speaking in one task. Your note-taking method matters more here than your vocabulary.
Respond to a Situation
New in August 2025: speak a natural reply to an everyday situation, with the right tone for who you are talking to.
Summarize Group Discussion
New in August 2025: hear several speakers discuss a topic, then summarise the main points and views aloud.
Summarize Written Text
One sentence, strict word count. Grammar and form are scored as heavily as content.
Write Essay
Twenty minutes, a set structure, and marks for development, coherence and range.
Re-order Paragraphs
Pure logic and cohesion. The fastest reading marks to recover once you see the pattern.
Fill in the Blanks
Reading and listening variants. Knowing which words go together does most of the work.
Summarize Spoken Text
Fifty to seventy words from a lecture you hear once.
Write from Dictation
Short, high-value, and the densest source of recoverable marks in the test.
Built for serious test-takers
Everything you need to find your weak spots and spend your time where the marks are.
Full-length mocks with real timings
Sit the whole test in the order and under the clock you will face at the centre, then read a section-by-section breakdown instead of a single number.
A pronunciation score for every word
Record a Read Aloud, then see which words pulled the score down, how fast you spoke and where you paused — the parts of a speaking score you cannot judge for yourself.
Marked against the published criteria
Writing and speaking are scored against the criteria Pearson publishes, with the reason for each deduction shown next to your answer rather than a bare figure.
A mistake bank that brings tasks back
Every question you get wrong is kept and returned to you later, so weak task types get more of your time and the ones you have mastered get less.
How PTE Academic is scored
PTE reports one overall score from 10 to 90 and a score for each of the four communicative skills — listening, reading, speaking and writing. Since August 2025, AI scoring works alongside human review, and memorised templates are detected and penalised.
Most tasks are integrated, meaning one task feeds more than one score. Read Aloud counts towards both reading and speaking; Write from Dictation counts towards both listening and writing. This is why a single weak skill drags down parts of the report you were not expecting, and why practising each section in isolation misleads you.
The 79 target comes from Australia’s old rules, which treated 79 in each skill as superior English. For PTE tests taken from 7 August 2025, the Department of Home Affairs instead asks for at least 69 in listening, 70 in reading, 85 in writing and 88 in speaking. 79 overall is still a useful goal: Pearson’s July 2025 concordance places PTE 79–85 at IELTS 8.0.
Scores are estimates produced from the published marking criteria, not official results. Read how the scoring works.
PTE Academic Frequently Asked Questions
IELTS Academic preparation
Still deciding between the two? Read what IELTS Academic asks for and how it is scored.