Lakshay S.: Lakshay coaches PTE Academic and NAATI CCL Punjabi at Score Smart. A Pearson PTE trainer and NAATI Punjabi mentor with 4+ years of…
Pearson PTE trainer and NAATI Punjabi CCL mentor — has sat and passed both exams he teaches.
Lakshay coaches PTE Academic and NAATI CCL in Punjabi, and he is direct about how little the two have in common. PTE is machine-scored and rewards learnable delivery habits. NAATI CCL is marked by human examiners on whether meaning survived the transfer between two languages. Preparing for one the way you prepare for the other wastes weeks.
That distinction matters most for students chasing points on a skilled migration application, who often sit both. He plans them as separate projects with separate timelines rather than one long English course.
Almost everyone who fails NAATI CCL is fluent in both languages. The marks go elsewhere. Omission is the most common: a date, a number, a qualifier quietly dropped from a 35-word segment. Distortion is next — the gist survives but a detail changes. Then register drift, where a doctor's careful phrasing comes out as casual speech.
None of these feel like errors while you are making them, which is why self-study stalls. Lakshay's sessions are graded dialogue practice with examiner-style marking, so students hear exactly which words cost them rather than being told to practise more.
Retakers make up a large share of his intake. He starts from the score report rather than the syllabus, isolating the one or two enabling skills holding the result down. Most students who have already sat the exam once need a fix list, not another full course.
Lakshay is a Pearson PTE trainer and a NAATI Punjabi CCL mentor with over four years of coaching experience. He has personally scored 79 or above in PTE and passed the NAATI CCL exam.