The TOEFL iBT Test
The TOEFL iBT Test Meets Your Needs
Designed by institutions for institutions, the TOEFL iBT test meets your needs in a superior way. That's why more than 11,500 universities in over 160 countries trust it to showcase their applicants' ability to succeed in an English-speaking academic environment.
Trusted and secure
With policies that protect score integrity, and more than US$60 million invested annually on security, the TOEFL iBT test offers the best security of any English-language assessment and helps you ensure the quality of your international students.
TOEFL iBT Speaking Section
The TOEFL iBT Speaking section measures your ability to speak English effectively in academic settings. The four questions/tasks resemble real-life situations you might encounter both in and outside of a classroom.
Question 1: Independent Speaking Task — requires you to draw entirely on your own ideas, opinions and experiences when you respond.
Questions 2–4: Integrated Speaking Tasks — require you to combine your English-language skills — listening and speaking, or listening, reading and speaking — just as you would in or out of a classroom.
Prep time: You'll get 15–30 seconds of preparation time before each response, and your response will be 45 or 60 seconds long.
Speaking response: To respond, you'll speak into the microphone and your responses will be recorded.
Test time: You have 17 minutes to complete the Speaking section.
Scoring: Speaking tasks are scored based on the Speaking Scoring Guides (Rubrics) (PDF) by a combination of AI scoring and certified human raters. Raw scores are converted to a scaled section score of 0–30.
Accents
The Speaking section includes native-speaker English accents from North America, the U.K., New Zealand or Australia to better reflect the variety of accents you might encounter while studying abroad. Only the first of the four items may have accented speech.
Audio File Transcript
Item 1 (MP3) If friends from another country were going to spend time in your country, what city or place would you suggest they visit? Using details and examples, explain why.
Item 2 (MP3) Some people enjoy taking risks and trying new things. Others are not adventurous; they are cautious and prefer to avoid danger. Which behavior do you think is better? Explain why.
Below are two examples, both of which use accents from the U.K. In each instance, the example is 15 seconds long, and you would have 45 seconds to respond.
TOEFL iBT Test Writing Section
The TOEFL iBT test Writing section measures your ability to write in English in an academic setting, and to present your ideas in a clear, well-organized way.
There are two writing tasks.
Integrated writing task (20 minutes) — read a short passage and listen to a short lecture, then write in response to what you read and listened to.
Independent writing task (30 minutes) — write an essay based on personal experience or opinion in response to a writing topic.
You'll type your responses on a computer keyboard (or hand write them for the TOEFL iBT Paper Edition).
Test time: You have 50 minutes to complete the Writing section.
Scoring: Writing tasks are scored based on the Writing Scoring Guides (Rubrics) (PDF) by a combination of AI scoring and certified human raters. Raw scores are converted to a scaled section score of 0–30.
Do you need to be an expert on the topics?
The writing tasks measure your English proficiency, so you don't need deep knowledge on a specific topic to get a high score. Score raters recognize that each essay is a first draft, and you can receive a high score with an essay that contains some errors.
A measurement of skills where it matters
Integrated tasks combine the four language skills — reading, listening, speaking and writing — to ensure students are prepared for the classroom.
Test content is drawn from all areas of academic life to offer the most comprehensive picture of a student’s ability to communicate in an academic setting.
Fair,unbiased and reliable scores
We ensure fair and accurate results with:
centralized, anonymous scoring by multiple raters
a combination of artificial intelligence and human scoring
extensive training and daily monitoring of our raters
We eliminate the potential for geographic bias or bias of a face-to-face interview with:
a standardized Speaking section administered via computer
raters from around the world
An accurate prediction of potential
Unlike other English-language tests, the TOEFL iBT test gives universities the ability to differentiate among applicants because of its more precise measuring scale (0–120).
Backed by research
ETS has been at the forefront of English language learning and assessment, pioneering new ways to measure proficiency and sharing our knowledge with universities and institutions around the world.
TOEFL iBT Test
The TOEFL iBT test has four sections: Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing.
Test time
The total test takes about 3 hours to complete, but you should plan for 3.5 hours, allowing 30 minutes for check in.
Learn more about each test section
TOEFL iBT Reading Section
The TOEFL iBT Reading section assess how well you can read and understand materials used in an academic environment.
It includes three or four reading passages, each approximately 700 words long, with 10 questions per passage. You have 54 to 72 minutes to answer all the questions in the section.
Reading passages are excerpts from university-level textbooks that would be used in introductions to a topic. The passages cover a variety of subjects. Don't worry if you're not familiar with the topic of a passage. All the information you need to answer the questions will be included in the passage. There is a glossary feature available to define words not commonly used, if you need it.
Extra test questions
Your test may include extra questions in the Reading or Listening sections that don't count toward your score. These questions help ETS to:
make test scores comparable across administrations
determine how these questions function under actual testing conditions
TOEFL iBT Listening Section
The TOEFL iBT Listening section is designed to measure your ability to understand conversations and lectures in English. It includes listening for:
basic comprehension
understanding the speaker's attitude and degree of certainty
connecting information
Listening questions
You’ll hear lectures and conversations in this section. Both use campus-based language.
3–4 lectures, some with classroom discussion, each 3–5 minutes; 6 questions per lecture
2–3 conversations, each 3 minutes; 5 questions per conversation
You can take notes on any audio item throughout the test to help you answer questions.
Test time: You have 41 to 57 minutes to complete the section.
Accents
The Listening section includes native-speaker English accents from North America, the U.K., New Zealand or Australia to better reflect the variety of accents you might encounter while studying abroad. For example, listen to this talk about the greenhouse effect (MP3). The lecturer is from the U.K.
Extra test questions
Your test may include extra questions in the Reading or Listening sections that don't count toward your score. These questions help ETS to:
make test scores comparable across administrations
determine how these questions function under actual testing conditions
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