PTEA to Replace TOEFL and IELTS?
By HSB
PTE Academic ( Pearson Test of English Academic) is an innovative and engaging way to demonstrate your English language proficiency to international institutions.
TOEFL is mandatory requirement for International students apply for US Universities. PTEA is new exam which will be offered from October, 2009 to gain some share in standardized English Proficiency testing market. Before students can take the test, PTEA must be accepted by Universities.
Right now about 50+ Universities in US accept PTEA exam for Graduate School Admission, whereas TOEFL is accepted by almost all the colleges and universities. So, it will take huge effort for Pearson to market this exam to the Universities and then get them to accept the test.
PTE Academic vs TOEFL
When an International student thinks about applying to Universities in America, by default GRE and TOEFL exams comes to mind. For Australian and UK universities, IETLS comes to mind.
There are small group of students applying to US Universities using ITELS. But, those group of students should be planning to apply for admission in UK or Australia. Also, students taking TOEFL are planning to study in America. It will take lot of time, effort (many years) to make students take PTEA.
IELTS exam is know to all the students, but majority of those students applying for colleges to US from India go for TOEFL. So, PETA has tough challenges atleast in India.
In the next article we will do a comparison of PTEA vs TOEFL vs IELTS.
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Good post, and interesting developments with the PTEA.
I agree that it will take a very long time for PTEA to remotely challenge TOEFL and IELTS, but then again – Pearson is a seriously big and powerful company that is pretty good at getting its own way in a lot of things…
IELTS has risen in status a lot over the past decade or so as well, with (in addition to Aus and UK) many hundreds of universities in the US accepting IELTS scores alongside TOEFL ones. I think a number of Australian universities also accept TOEFL as well as IELTS.
Definitely TOEFL and IELTS are the two tests people should be aiming to pass with good scores.
All the best,
~ Jason
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Friends
this is the link to PTE A website
http://pearsonpte.com
thanks
cheers
easwaran
The IELTS test is becoming much more widely accepted in the US, and is accepted by all Ivy League schools and, like the PTE, you can take it in general or academic formats.
Be careful with the PTE – according to their website, only certain programs/schools within a larger college accept the scores.
HSB
from 2011 admission in to MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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will be accepting only PTEA instead of TOEFL
i am sure many universities will follow
this i found in MIT WEB http://www.mit.edu/
thank you for informing earlier
with gratitude
easwaran