Type your four PTE skill scores and this calculator works out an estimated overall score, a CEFR level for each skill, an IELTS band your profile lines up with, and, for PTE Academic, the Australian visa English level you meet. Switch to the Core tab for a Canadian Language Benchmark reading instead. Every mapping used here comes from a Pearson, IRCC or Home Affairs publication, not from our own marking.
Enter all four scores (10-90) to see your estimated overall and conversions.
What the calculator works out
PTE Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing are each reported on a 10 to 90 scale, and so is the overall score. Type your four skill scores and the calculator returns several readings side by side, so you can see how one profile looks across different scales at once.
The Academic tab adds an IELTS equivalent and an Australian visa English level, because those mappings only exist for PTE Academic. The Core tab replaces both with a Canadian Language Benchmark for each skill, since Core is the version IRCC accepts for immigration programmes.
Estimated overall score (rounded mean of your four inputs)
CEFR level (B1 to C2) for each skill on the Academic tab, from the UK Home Office cut points, which match Pearson's chart
IELTS Academic equivalent, overall and per skill (Academic tab)
Australian visa English level met, by test date (Academic tab)
Canadian Language Benchmark for each skill (Core tab)
Why the overall figure is labelled an estimate
Pearson calculates your overall score itself, and its score guides make clear that the overall is not a simple average of the four skill scores. We do not have Pearson's calculation, so no mean of your four inputs can be guaranteed to match the overall on a real score report.
Because we cannot reproduce Pearson's own calculation, this tool shows a rounded mean of your four inputs and always labels it an estimate. Treat it as a way to track whether your practice is moving in the right direction, not as a preview of your real score report.
How to use the calculator
Choose the Academic or Core tab first, since the two exams use different conversion tables. Then enter a score from 10 to 90 for each of Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing, using your most recent mock or practice results, or the scores from an official report you already hold.
The results panel updates as soon as all four fields hold a valid score. If you leave a field blank or type a number outside 10 to 90, the calculator will not show any results until you correct it.
Pick Academic or Core
Enter Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing (10-90 each)
Read the estimated overall, CEFR, and IELTS or CLB panel
Re-run the calculator after every new mock test to track change over time
Reading the CEFR, IELTS and Australian results
CEFR levels use the B1 to C2 cut points (43, 59, 76 and 85) that the UK Home Office's approved-test list sets for PTE Academic UKVI; Pearson's own CEFR chart for PTE Academic shows the same four cut points. Scores below 43 show as below B1. The calculator applies this table separately to each of your four skills, so you may see a different CEFR level per skill.
The IELTS reading uses Pearson's July 2025 concordance study, built from over 1,500 test takers who sat both the enhanced PTE Academic and IELTS Academic. The study reports separate ranges for the overall score and for each skill, so your overall IELTS equivalent and your per-skill equivalents will not always point at the same band.
The Australian visa level uses the Department of Home Affairs's Competent, Proficient, Superior, Vocational and Functional English definitions for PTE Academic. Home Affairs applies different score tables depending on whether your test was sat on or after 7 August 2025 or earlier. The calculator uses the table for tests taken on or after 7 August 2025, and the Australia requirements page shows both tables. The Functional level uses the estimated overall, so treat it as an estimate too.
PTE Core: a CLB reading instead of IELTS
PTE Core is not compared to IELTS Academic by Pearson, so the Core tab shows a Canadian Language Benchmark for each of your four skills instead. IRCC publishes the same CLB conversion table on more than one of its pages, and Pearson's own Core scoring materials reproduce it, so the calculator uses one shared table for both.
Because IRCC's tables give each skill its own CLB, the calculator never blends your four skills into a single Core-equivalent number. Use the PTE Core to CLB calculator page if you want the common CLB 7 and CLB 9 thresholds checked automatically against your scores.
What this tool cannot do
This calculator is a self-check, not a substitute for a Pearson score report. Only a proctored PTE test produces a real, verifiable score, and only Pearson's own report carries a Score Report Code that a university, employer or immigration authority can check.
Do not submit an estimate from this page in place of an official score report. If a requirement page quotes a specific cut score, use your official report to confirm you meet it, and check the source we cite for the date it was last updated.
No. It is a rounded mean of your four skill scores, clearly labelled an estimate. Pearson's real overall is not a simple average of the four skills, so no calculator outside Pearson can reproduce it precisely.
Yes. Switch to the Core tab to see a Canadian Language Benchmark for each skill instead of an IELTS equivalent, using the same conversion table IRCC and Pearson publish.
Use your most recent practice or mock test results as a starting point, then come back after each new attempt to see how your estimate, CEFR level and IELTS or CLB reading move.
No. Only your official Pearson score report is accepted for visa, immigration or admissions purposes. Use this tool to track your own progress, not as a document to submit.
The table for tests taken on or after 7 August 2025. Home Affairs publishes a different table for tests taken on or before 6 August 2025; the Australia requirements page shows both.
