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Duolingo English Test emerges as new contender against IELTS and PTE

Many universities around the world are currently accepting the Duolingo English Test for their admission process. It has emerged as a substitute for other English proficiency tests such as IELTS, PTE, and Toefl. The Duolingo English Test was developed by the same company which created the highly-popular language-learning app Duolingo. Presently, almost 2000 universities worldwide […]

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IELTS Speaking Assessment Criteria

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In the IELTS Speaking Test, your response to the questions asked is marked according to four IELTS Speaking assessment criteria. As per the IELTS Speaking marking scheme, each of the four assessment criterion carries 25 percent of the total band score of 9. So, you need to take an average of the four scores to

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IELTS Writing Evaluation Explained

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How is IELTS Writing marked? Examiners who evaluate your answers in the Writing section of the IELTS test use specific assessment criteria. Depending on how many of the descriptors in the criteria your answer has met, a score is assigned. Basically, according to the IELTS Writing evaluation criteria, the band scores are based on four

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Online IELTS Score Calculator for Listening and Reading

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The Listening and the Reading sections in the IELTS test have 40 questions each. Based on how many out of 40 you get correct, your score is converted into a band scale of 9.0. Each correct answer gets you 1 point and each incorrect answer gets you 0 point. This is true for both IELTS

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PTE marking system explained! PTE score guide 2024

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The Pearson PTE test is conducted, evaluated, and marked by a computer-automated scoring system. Essentially, there is no involvement of a human in the marking process of the PTE Academic exam. This may sound incredible, but PTE Academic has successfully been using software technology to judge test takers’ answers and automatically compute an English language

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