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TOEFL Test Format

TOEFL Test Sections

Reading

In this section, you encounter three to four passages with 12 to 14 questions per passage. To answer these questions you get 60 to 80 minutes.

The questions come in three different formats – multiple-choice format with four answer choices and only one correct answer, questions with four answer and only one correct answer where you need to insert a sentence, and “reading to learn” with more than four answer choices and more than one correct answer.

Listening

This section includes clip from various range of topics from academics lectures to conversation. You are allowed to jot down points while you answer this section.

Questions in this section are presented in four different formats – multiple choice question with four answer choices and only one correct answer, multiple choice questions with more than four answer choices and more than one correct answer, questions on putting events in order or steps involved in a process, and questions that require you to match the text, tables and so on.

This section lasts for about 60 to 90 minutes.

Speaking

This section includes various topics related to your experiences, education and college life. Two questions are independent tasks and the other questions are integrated tasks that involve reading and writing while speaking or listening and speaking.

This section is 20 minutes long and includes an overall of six questions.

Writing

In this section, you will be presented with two tasks –integrated writing task and independent writing task. Immediately after the listening section, the first task that you attempt in the writing section is an integrated writing task as it requires you to integrate listening, reading and writing skills followed by an independent task. The duration of this section is 50 minutes.

TOEFL Test Scoring

TOEFL test is scored by both a human rater and a centralized automated scoring methods. The Reading and Listening sections are scored by computer on a scale from 0 to 30, the writing section’s score is a combination score produced by multiple human raters and automated scoring methods on various parameters such as intended meaning of the content, consistency of the written content, quality of the written content and so on to get a section score from 0 to 30, the speaking section score is based on your responses to 6 tasks that are rated from 0 to 4 and then converted to a scale from 0 to 30.

TOEFL Test Fee

Registration Fee - $240

Late Registration Fee - $40

Rescheduling Fee - $60

TOEFL Test Dates and Registration Deadlines

More than 50 test dates are available throughout the year worldwide to choose your test date from. Registration closes 7 days before the test date and late registration closes 4 days before the test date.

Late registration incurs a fee of $40. You can take TOEFL as many times as you want however with a gap a 12 or more days between the two test dates.

TOEFL Score Reports

Official score report will be issued only upon answering at least one question/essay/task each in Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing sections. You will receive an email notification around 10 days after your test date to access your official scores from your TOEFL account.

A pdf of official score report will be available online which you can download for your reference. Printed copies of your official score report will be sent to universities around 13 days after your test date and the universities will receive your score report as per location and mail delivery system. TOEFL score is valid for 2 years.