IELTS 8.0 to PTE score

IELTS 8.0 in each PTE skill

The overall range for IELTS 8.0 is 7 PTE scores wide. The widest skill range is Listening (6 scores) and the narrowest is Speaking (2), so a Listening score has more room to land inside the band than a Speaking score.

What PTE 79–85 clears

No sourced threshold falls inside 79–85: every score in the band gets the same answer on the thresholds below. The table reads each threshold as 79 or 85 in every skill and overall.

Sources: Home Affairs (checked 9 Oct 2026), Pearson UK visa table, Immigration New Zealand and the university pages listed on each PTE score page.

Pearson's per-skill floors for IELTS 8.0 against Australia

Take the lowest PTE score Pearson lists for each skill at IELTS 8.0: Listening 69, Reading 70, Speaking 88 and Writing 85. Those four figures are exactly the new-test minimums for Superior English, so Pearson's band floors and Home Affairs's per-skill minimums line up one to one at this band. As a profile, they meet Superior English on the new test and Proficient English on the old test.

Four section bands that add up to IELTS 8.0

IELTS averages the Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking bands and rounds to the nearest half band, with .25 rounding up to the half band and .75 up to the whole band. These mixes show where IELTS 8.0 starts and stops, and the last column converts the overall result to PTE with Pearson's table.

IELTS 8.0 next to its neighbours

The PTE scores inside IELTS 8.0

Each score has its own page with the per-skill conversion, the Australian, UK and NZ checks and a practice plan. Pearson's CEFR scale puts this band at C1 to C2:

Study plan for IELTS 8.0 equivalents

1. Know the hardest floor: for IELTS 8.0, Speaking starts at PTE 88, 9 above the overall floor of 79.
2. Train Speaking first: Respond to a Situation and Read Aloud. All speaking practice.
3. Next, Writing (floor 85): Summarize Written Text and Write Essay. Give the easiest skill, Listening (floor 69), one short set per session so it stays above its floor.
4. Estimate, then verify: use the score calculator and PTE to IELTS converter. They are estimates, so confirm any requirement with the university or immigration page.