TOEFL Test Overview

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JROOZ REVIEW CENTER INC. An Introduction to TOEFL-iBT
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overview of the TOEFL-iBT prepared by JROOZ REVIEW CENTER INC. (www.jroozreview.com)

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JROOZ REVIEW CENTER INC.

An Introduction to TOEFL-iBT

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measures your ability to use and understand English at the university level

OVERVIEW

Test of English as a Foreign Language – Internet-Based Test

evaluates how well you combine your listening, reading, speaking and writing skills to perform academic tasks

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OVERVIEW

Educational Testing System (ETS)

world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization

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OVERVIEW

READING

Length of each passage:

Number of passages and questions:

Timing:

• approximately 700-800 words

• From 3 to 5 passages• From 12 to 14 questions per

passage

• from 60 – 100 minutes

Score: 30

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OVERVIEW

LISTENING

Content:

Timing:• from 60 – 100 minutes

• 35 seconds to answer each question

• 4-6 lectures (5 minutes)• 6 questions each

• 2-3 conversations (3 minutes)• 5 questions each

Score: 30

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OVERVIEW

SPEAKING

TASK 1

Timing:

• Personal Experience

• you are being evaluated by your ability to state or explain an opinion in a clear/coherent manner

• you are given 15 seconds to prepare and 45 seconds to speak

Score: 30

• support it logically with two reasons

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OVERVIEW

SPEAKING

TASK 2

Timing:

• Personal Preference

• you will be asked to express your preference from a given pair of choices

• you are given 15 seconds to prepare and 45 seconds to speak

• There is no right or wrong answer to the question.

• test of how well you can express your point of view and how convincing your powers of persuasions are.

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OVERVIEW

SPEAKING

TASK 3

Timing:

• Campus Situation (Reading & Conversation)

• you will read a short passage of campus-related interest, and you will be asked to listen to a conversation between two speakers

• 45 seconds to read the announcement.

• restate the opinion of one of the speakers without giving your own opinion to the topic.

• 30 seconds to prepare and 60 seconds to speak

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OVERVIEW

SPEAKING

Timing:

• you will read and listen to a lecture • explain or summarize the points given in the lecture

• 45 seconds to read the topic

TASK 4 • Academic Topic (Reading & Lecture)

• you need to convey that information in a clear, concise, coherent and sustained speech.

• your ability to correlate the information that you have read and heard from the source will be tested

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OVERVIEW

SPEAKING

Timing:

• you will hear two people discussing a campus-related problem and two possible solutions

• 20 seconds to prepare and 60 seconds to speak.

TASK 5• Campus Situation (Conversation &

Problem)

• you have to identify exactly what the problem is, identify the two solutions, then you have to give your opinion and support it with reasons from the listening material

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OVERVIEW

SPEAKING

Timing:

• you will listen to a lecture• you are asked to explain or summarize the points given

in the lecture

• 20 seconds to prepare and 60 seconds to speak.

TASK 6 • Academic Topic (Lecture)

• this will test your ability to correlate the information that you have heard from the source

• you need to convey that information in a clear, concise, coherent and sustained speech

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OVERVIEW

WRITING

• 3 minutes to read the passage

• listen to a lecture (relate / contrast)

• 20 minutes to plan, write and revise your essay

Score: 30

TASK 1 • Integrated Task (Reading and Lecture)

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OVERVIEW

WRITING

• something like TASK 2 Preference Question in the speaking section

• you will be asked about a familiar topic

• 30 minutes to plan, write and revise your answer

TASK 2 • Independent Task

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