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The document provides scoring criteria for pronunciation and oral fluency in PTE Academic assessments. It rates performance on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being non-English pronunciation or disfluent speech, 1 being intrusive accent or limited fluency, 3 being good pronunciation with some errors or acceptable uneven fluency, and 5 being native-like pronunciation and smooth fluency without hesitations. Scores of 2 and 4 represent intermediate levels between these ratings. The criteria examine accurate production of vowels and consonants, stress and intonation, speech rhythm and phrasing, and frequency of hesitations or repetitions.

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Pte Score Guide

The document provides scoring criteria for pronunciation and oral fluency in PTE Academic assessments. It rates performance on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being non-English pronunciation or disfluent speech, 1 being intrusive accent or limited fluency, 3 being good pronunciation with some errors or acceptable uneven fluency, and 5 being native-like pronunciation and smooth fluency without hesitations. Scores of 2 and 4 represent intermediate levels between these ratings. The criteria examine accurate production of vowels and consonants, stress and intonation, speech rhythm and phrasing, and frequency of hesitations or repetitions.

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PTE

SCORE GUIDE

Scoring criteria: Pronunciation and Oral fluency


The following scoring criteria apply to the speaking item types that are scored on pronunciation and
oral fluency in PTE Academic.

Pronunciation
5 Native-like

All vowels and consonants are produced in a manner that is easily understood by regular
speakers of the language. The speaker uses assimilation and deletions appropriate to
continuous speech. Stress is placed correctly in all words and sentence-level stress is fully
appropriate

4 Advanced

Vowels and consonants are pronounced clearly and unambiguously. A few minor consonant,
vowel or stress distortions do not affect intelligibility. All words are easily understandable. A
few consonants or consonant sequences may be distorted. Stress is placed correctly on all
common words, and sentence level stress is reasonable

3 Good

Most vowels and consonants are pronounced correctly. Some consistent errors might make
a few words unclear. A few consonants in certain contexts may be regularly distorted,
omitted or mispronounced. Stress-dependent vowel reduction may occur on a few words

2 Intermediate

Some consonants and vowels are consistently mispronounced in a non-native like manner.
At least 2/3 of speech is intelligible, but listeners might need to adjust to the accent. Some
consonants are regularly omitted, and consonant sequences may be simplified. Stress may
be placed incorrectly on some words or be unclear

1 Intrusive

Many consonants and vowels are mispronounced, resulting in a strong intrusive foreign
accent. Listeners may have difficulty understanding about 1/3 of the words. Many
consonants may be distorted or omitted. Consonant sequences may be non-English. Stress
is placed in a non-English manner; unstressed words may be reduced or omitted and a few
syllables added or missed

0 Non-English

Pronunciation seems completely characteristic of another language. Many consonants and


vowels are mispronounced, misordered or omitted. Listeners may find more than 1/2 of the
speech unintelligible. Stressed and unstressed syllables are realized in a non-English
manner. Several words may have the wrong number of syllables

Oral fluency
5 Nativelike

Speech shows smooth rhythm and phrasing. There are no hesitations, repetitions, false
starts or non-native phonological simplifications

4 Advanced

Speech has an acceptable rhythm with appropriate phrasing and word emphasis. There is
no more than one hesitation, one repetition or a false start. There are no significant nonnative phonological simplifications

3 Good

Speech is at an acceptable speed but may be uneven. There may be more than one
hesitation, but most words are spoken in continuous phrases. There are few repetitions or
false starts. There are no long pauses and speech does not sound staccato

2 Intermediate

Speech may be uneven or staccato. Speech (if >= 6 words) has at least one smooth
three-word run, and no more than two or three hesitations, repetitions or false starts.
There may be one long pause, but not two or more

1 Limited

Speech has irregular phrasing or sentence rhythm. Poor phrasing, staccato or syllabic
timing, and/or multiple hesitations, repetitions, and/or false starts make spoken
performance notably uneven or discontinuous. Long utterances may have one or two long
pauses and inappropriate sentence-level word emphasis

0 Disfluent

Speech is slow and labored with little discernable phrase grouping, multiple hesitations,
pauses, false starts, and/or major phonological simplifications. Most words are isolated, and
there may be more than one long pause

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