PTE Core is accepted by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) for economic immigration and work-permit pathways. Its tasks lean towards practical communication rather than academic content.
| Skill area | Representative tasks |
|---|---|
| Speaking | Read aloud, repeat sentence, describe image, respond to a situation, answer short question |
| Writing | Summarize written text, write email |
| Reading | Multiple-choice, reorder paragraphs, fill in the blanks |
| Listening | Summarize spoken text, fill in the blanks, highlight incorrect words, write from dictation |