English Language Requirements

Pacific Link College will accept English Language Test scores from the below as a requirement for general admissions.

Name of English Language Assessment/Test Minimum Score(s)/Level(s)*
1 International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic Minimum overall score of 5.5

  • For CWSICT, the minimum overall score is 6.0
2 Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) IBT Minimum overall score of 46
3 Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (CAEL) Minimum overall score of 40
4 Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP) – General Listening 6, Speaking 6, Reading 5, and Writing 5
5 Duolingo English Test (DET) Minimum overall score of 95
6 Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic Minimum overall score of 43
7 Cambridge English Qualifications: B2 First exam (FCE)
Institutions may include other Cambridge Qualifications at a higher level (i.e..C2 Proficiency (CPE)).		 Minimum overall score of 160 or “C”
8 Cambridge Linguaskill Minimum overall B2 level
9 LANGUAGECERT Academic Minimum overall B2 level
10 The Michigan English Test (MET) Minimum overall B2 level
11 iTEP Academic Minimum overall score of 3.5
12 ΕΙΚΕΝ Minimum placement of Grade Pre-1
  • PLC can accept applicants who have evidence that 3 years of full-time secondary education (Grades 8-12), or 2 years if the Grades are 10, 11, or 12, have been successfully completed in the program’s language of instruction in a country where the language of instruction is one of the principal languages.

PLC considers education completed (in English) in the following countries as counting toward an assessment of prior education in English.

American Samoa Dominica Lesotho St. Kitts & Nevis
Anguilla Falkland Islands Liberia St. Lucia
Australia Fiji Malta St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Bahamas Gambia Mauritius Tanzania
Barbados Ghana Montserrat Trinidad & Tobago
Belize Gibraltar New Zealand Turks & Caicos Islands
Bermuda Grenada Nigeria Uganda
Botswana Guam Seychelles United Kingdom
British Virgin Islands Guyana Sierra Leone US Virgin Islands
Canada Ireland Singapore USA
Cayman Islands Jamaica South Africa Zambia
Kenya St. Helena Zimbabwe