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New TOEFL competitor – the PTE Academic

Pearson, the publisher of The Economist magazine, has just launched a brand new English proficiency exam, which they are hoping will grow to be as popular as the TOEFL is today. The new exam is called the Pearson Test of English (PTE). There are three forms of the new exam. The one that will interest TOEFL students the most is the PTE Academic. Already over 500 universities, including top ones like Yale, have announced that they will accept PTE Academic scores from international students. In addition to the academic exam, there is also a PTE General, and a PTE for Young Learners.

The first PTE Academic will be administered in India in November 2009. Of course, since it is such a new exam, there is hardly any material to help one study for it. The TOEFL has been around for a long, long time. Even the current version, the TOEFL iBT, has been around for years now, so there are a lot of text books, sample exams, and free internet resources like this one to help one study for the it. It will take some time for this amount of material to appear for the new PTE Academic.

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5 Responses to “New TOEFL competitor – the PTE Academic”

  1. TOEFL iBT Says:
    October 24th, 2009 at 11:58 am

    Well, it is very good to have competition in the field. However I doubt how Pearson will manage to penetrate the market. The acceptance from the universities is OK, they are all in search of new tests ease the potential students. But the infrastructure, test centres I mean is very hard to develop. I wish them success.

  2. Michael Buckhoff Says:
    November 22nd, 2009 at 9:11 am

    I agree with the other blogger. Pearson will have difficulties penetrating the market. Heck, the TOEFL is having a hard time penetrating the market. In California, many state schools are negative toward any type of testing that tries to dominate the market, especially ETS. Therefore, these state universities have gotten around using the TOEFL. Instead, if an international student passes the highest level in their intensive English program, he/she is given a “TOEFL waiver” and is allowed to enter the school.

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    December 5th, 2009 at 8:11 am

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    June 7th, 2010 at 7:30 am

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    July 2nd, 2010 at 7:35 am

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