Pearson recently published its half year results for 2023. They include a report that the Pearson Test of English (PTE) was taken 606,000 times in the half year, way up from 344,000 in the first half of 2022.
As I’ve written here in the past, the growth of the PTE is really amazing. Remember that for all of 2019, it was taken just 547,000 times.
I imagine that the PTE is now the second most popular English test, by test-taker volume. If the PTE Core (nee “PTE Essential”) variation gets approved for more markets, Pearson could possibly move into the top position.
One day I will make a blog post that lists the estimated popularity of all of the major English tests.