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The TOEFL stands for Test Of English as a Foreign Language. It’s a test of an individual's ability to use and understand English in an academic setting. The TOEFL test is designed and administrated by ETS(Educational Testing Service).TOEFL is a registered trademark of ETS.

It ensures the Problem of English language proficiency for non-native speakers who are wishing to study in U.S universities. TOEFL has become an admission requirement for non-native English speakers. In add to that, some institutions like government agencies, licensing bodies, businesses, scholarship programs require this test.

TOEFL score is valid for two years and after that no longer be officially reported

Types of Test:

Generally TOEFL test will be conducted in two formats.

·         Internet -based Test

·         Paper-based Test

Internet - based Test:

Since it’s introduced lately, this Internet Based format (IBT) has progressively replaced both the Computer based tests (CBT) and Paper based tests (PBT).

PBT is still used in selected areas. The IBT test has been introduced in phases, with the United states, France, Canada, Italy and Germany in 2005 and the rest of the world in 2006, with test centers added regularly. The CBT was discontinued in Sep, 2006 and these scores are no longer valid.
Previously, the demand for test seats was higher than availability. Candidates had to wait for months.

Now it’s possible to take the test within one to four weeks in most countries.

This test consists of four sections, each of one measuring one of the basic language skills, while some tasks require integrating multiple skills. All the tasks focus on language used in an academic, higher education levels. Note taking is allowed during the IBT Test.

The test cannot be taken more than once a week.

Sections:

1. Reading

2. Listening

3. Speaking

4. Writing

Reading:

This section consists of 3-5 passages, each one approximately consist 700 words and questions will be about the passages only. Topics related to academics. They are kind of material that might be found in an undergraduate university textbook. Passages require understanding of rhetorical functions such as cause effect, compare-contrast and argumentation. Students has to be answer questions about main ideas, details, essential information, vocabulary, sentence insertion, inferences, rhetorical purpose and overall ideas.

New types of questions in the IBT test require filling out tables or completing summaries. Prior knowledge of the subject under discussion is not necessary to come to the correct answer.

Listening:

This section consist six passages of length 3-5 minutes and questions about the passages. It includes two student conversations and four academic discussions or lectures. Conversation involves two speakers, a student and either a professor or a campus service provider.

Test-takers may take notes while they listen and they may refer to their notes when they answer the questions. Each conversation is associated with five questions and each lecture with six. The questions are meant to measure the ability to understand main ideas, important details, relationships between ideas, implications, speaker attitude, speaker purpose and organization of information.

Speaking:

This section consists of six tasks: two independent tasks and four integrated tasks. In the two independent tasks, candidates have to answer opinion questions on familiar topics. They are evaluated on their ability to speak spontaneously and convey their ideas clearly and coherently.

In two of the integrated tasks, test takers read a shore passage, listen to academic course lecture or a conversation about campus life and answer a question by combining appropriate information from the text and the talk.

In the two remaining integrated tasks, candidates listen to an academic course lecture or a conversation about campus life and then respond to a question about what they heard. In the integrated tasks, test takers are evaluated on their ability to appropriately synthesize and effectively convey information from the reading and listening material.

Candidates may take notes as they read and listen and may use their notes to help prepare their responses. They have given a short preparation time before they have to begin speaking. The responses are digitally recorded, sent to ETS's OSN (Online Scoring Network) and evaluated by three to six raters.

Writing:

This section measures a candidate’s ability to write in an academic setting and consists of two tasks: One integrated task and one independent task. In the integrated task, candidates read a Passage on an academic topic and then listen to a speaker discuss the same topic. The candidates will then write a summary about the important points in the listening passage and explain how these relate to the key points of the reading passage.

In the independent task, the candidate must write an essay that states, explains and supports their opinion on an issue, supporting their opinion on an issue, supporting their opinions or choices, rather than simply listing personal preferences or choices. Responses are sent to the ETS OSN and evaluated by four raters.

Task	Approx. time	Description
Reading	60–100 minutes	3–5 passages, each containing 12–14 questions
Listening	60–90 minutes	6–9 passages, each containing 5–6 questions
Break	10 minutes
Speaking	20 minutes	6 tasks
Writing	50 minutes	2 tasks

 One of the sections of the test will include extra, uncounted material. ETS includes extra material in order to pilot test questions for future test forms. When candidates are given a longer section, they should give equal effort to all of the questions because they do not know which question will count and which will be considered extra.

For Example, if there are four reading passages instead of three, then three of those passages will count and one of the passages will not be counted. Any of the four passages could be the uncounted one.

Paper based test:

This test is available in limited areas. Scores are valid for two years after the test date. Candidates can have their scores sent to institutions or agencies during that time.

It has 4 sections

1. Listening

2. Structure and Written expression

3. Reading comprehension

4. Writing

Listening:

It consists of 3 parts. First one contains 30 questions about short conversations. The second part has 8 questions about longer conversations. The last one asks 12 questions about lectures or talks

Structure and Written expression:

This section has 15 exercises of completing sentences correctly and 25 exercises of identifying errors.

Reading comprehension:
 It has 50 questions about reading passages.

Writing:

It has one essay with 250-300 words in average.

Task	Approx. time
Listening	30–40 minutes
Structure and Written expression	25 minutes
Reading comprehension	55 minutes
Writing	30 minutes

Test Scores

TOEFL IBT Test:

1.  The TOEFL IBT test is scored on a scale of 0 to 120 points

2.  Each of the four sections receives a scaled score from 0 to 30. The scaled scores from the four sections are added together to determine the total score

3.  Each speaking question is initially given a score of 0 to 4 and each writing question is initially given a score of 0 to 5. Those scores are converted to scaled scores of 0 to 30.

Paper-based Test:

1.  The final PBT score ranges between 310 and 677 and is based on three sub scores:

Listening (31-68), Structure (31-68) and reading (31-67). Unlike the CBT, the score of the writing section is not part of the final score: Instead, it is reported separately on a scale of 0-6

2. The score test takers receive on the Listening, Structure and Reading parts of the TOEFL test is not the percentage of correct answers. The score is converted to take into account the fact that some tests are more difficult than others. The converted scores correct these differences. Therefore, the converted score is a more accurate reflection of the ability than the correct answer score is.

Accepted TOEFL Scores:

Most colleges use TOEFL scores as only one factor in their admission process. Each college or program within a college often has a minimum TOEFL score required. The minimum TOEFL IBT scores range from 61 (Bowling Green State University) to 100 (MIT, Columbia, Harvard).A sampling of required TOEFL admissions scores shows that a total TOEFL IBT score of 74.2 for undergraduate admissions and 82.6 for graduate admissions may be required.ETS has released tables to convert between IBT, CBT and PBT scores.

IELTS Score	TOEFL Score
9	118-120
8.5	115-117
8	110-114
7.5	102-109
7	94-101
6.5	79-93
6	60-78
5.5	46-59
5	35-45
4.5	32-34
0-4	0-31