All About the TOEFL

TOEFL takers all over the world are likely to embrace the new shorter TOEFL. It has become 30 minutes shorter. This very popular English-proficiency test will now be 3-hours long.

Test structure and question types will remain the same as before. The only difference is the fewer number of questions in the Reading, Listening, and Speaking sections. The TOEFL  conducting body ETS, promises a better test-taking experience with the new version of the TOEFL.

Here is a comparative table to give you an idea of the new format.

New TOEFL Test Format

Test Section	Before August 1, 2019	After August 1, 2019
Reading	3–4 reading passages 12–14 questions each 60–80 minutes	3–4 reading passages 10 questions each 54–72 minutes
Listening	4–6 lectures, 6 questions each 2–3 conversations, 5 questions each 60–90 minutes	3–4 lectures, 6 questions each 2–3 conversations, 5 questions each 41–57 minutes
Speaking	6 tasks ·         2 independent ·         4 integrated 20 minutes	4 tasks ·         1 independent ·         3 integrated 17 minutes

Please note that the writing section will remain unchanged i.e. 2 tasks with a total of 50 minutes. The test will still be scored on a scale of 0-120, with sectional scores as 0-30.

The Three Types of Skills on the TOEFL

What skills are evaluated on the test? English abilities, clearly. However, no—it doesn’t simply test English. There’s a lot more to the test than that.

Today, I will give you a breakdown of three unmistakable expertise types that you’ll have to ace for the exam. We’ll begin with English aptitudes and work from that point.

English Skills Tested on the TOEFL

More or less, it will test you on the accompanying English language skills: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. These four abilities make up the four areas of the test. These areas—TOEFL Reading, TOEFL Listening, TOEFL Speaking, and TOEFL Writing—are even named after the abilities.

Looking past the names of the abilities, it evaluates explicit parts of these four aptitudes. TOEFL Reading tests your capacity to peruse verifiable instructive writings composed at the primary year college level. TOEFL Listening tests your capacity to precisely hear tenderfoot level college addresses in English. This segment likewise tests your capacity to tune in to college-themed discussions about business and life nearby. TOEFL Speaking and TOEFL Writing incorporate comparative sections, talks, and discussions. However, these segments likewise test your capacity to give short independent addresses and compose short scholarly expositions.

Scholastic Skills tried on the TOEFL

The subsequent aptitude tried on the test is scholarly ability.

Somewhat, the English abilities I depicted above qualify as scholastic aptitudes. There is both a language part and a scholastic segment to perusing course reading sections. Tuning in to addresses, composing expositions, and so forth.

In any case, a few abilities that you require for the test are truly unadulterated important aptitudes. Those are not straightforwardly connected to the English language. For instance, you’ll have to take notes on the talks and discussions you hear. You can compose your notes in your local language or English. What’s significant is that you compose noticed that are helpful to you.

Pacing is another test aptitude that is not carefully attached to your English ability. For the test, you should cautiously be spending plan your time for perusing, composing, or responding to questions. This is a significant scholastic ability in any language.

In Speaking and Writing, the scholarly ability of substantial improvement and association is particularly significant. For a top score on these two segments. You should be acceptable at arranging and sorting out short discourses and expositions. This is a school ability, however not really English expertise. These sorts of substance advancement aptitudes will work well for you in your local language as well.

Test Skills

A portion of the aptitudes you requirement for the TOEFL are abilities related legitimately to the test itself.

In addition, you’ll require question and undertaking technique abilities for the test. This implies realizing the diverse inquiry types in TOEFL Reading just as the TOEFL Listening question types. You ought to likewise know and comprehend the changed undertaking types in TOEFL Speaking and TOEFL composing.

It’s particularly imperative to see how it’s various decision questions are planned. Get familiar with the normal ways that off-base answers can deceive you. Realize what the right answers resemble so you can distinguish them all the more rapidly.

To put it simply, figure out how to think like the individuals who make the test so you to comprehend the test design just as they do.

All the best!

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