PTE Academic offers a high level of reliability and validity; therefore both you and those institutions to whom you send scores can be confident that your score is an accurate measure of your academic English language ability.
How do PTE Academic scores align with IELTS and TOEFL scores?
Preliminary alignment - click for larger image
How do PTE Academic scores align with Common European Framework?
PTE Academic is aligned (preliminary estimate) to the Common European Framework (CEF or CEFR) a widely recognized benchmark for language ability developed by the Council of Europe (2001) and other international English language tests.
The CEF includes a set of consecutive language levels defined by descriptors of language competencies. These commonly defined levels enable language learners, teachers, universities and employers to compare and relate language qualifications by level.
Preliminary alignment to the CEF