Well………… my wife took the Pearson PTE-A English Language test yesterday and unfortunately she scored 35 overall (up from 34 two years ago).
More worryingly, although some scores were up from two years ago, her scores for listening and speaking were both down compared to two years ago.
Listening 33 down from 35 and Speaking 44, down from 48.

I'm wondering if it's the format of Pearson test that she's not comfortable with. From what she's told me, it's computer based and the various areas i.e. Listening, Speaking, Reading etc etc are taped questions/statements which are delivered very quickly and the test taker has only one shot at answering, before the test moves quickly onto the next question.
So not only are you up against the language test, you're up against the clock!

Are all tests made up of this format?