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An Overview of the TOEFL iBT Howard Burns [email protected] 052-3485156
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TOEFL iBT
Testing Points
Reading
Listening
10 minutes break
Speaking
Writing
Test Duration
4 hours
Score range
0 – 120
READING
• 3 or 4 Texts
• 60 or 80 minutes
• Each text between 550 – 750 words
• 12 – 14 questions for each text
TOEFL Reading Question Types
Basic Information and Inferencing Questions:Basic Information and Inferencing Questions:1.1. Factual information questionsFactual information questions2.2. Negative factual information questionsNegative factual information questions3.3. Inference question questionsInference question questions4.4. Rhetorical purpose questionsRhetorical purpose questions5.5. Vocabulary questionsVocabulary questions6.6. Reference questionsReference questions7.7. Sentence simplification questionsSentence simplification questions8.8. Insert text questions Insert text questions Reading to Learn questions:Reading to Learn questions:9. Prose summary9. Prose summary10. Fill in a table10. Fill in a table
Vocabulary Question (iBT)Growth, reproduction, and daily metabolism all require an organism to expend energy. The expenditure of energy is essentially a process of budgeting, just as finances are budgeted. If all of one's money is spent on clothes, there may be none left to buy food or go to the movies. Similarly, a plant or animal cannot squander all its energy on growing a big body if none would be left over for reproduction, for this is the surest way to extinction.
The word squander in the passage is closest in meaning to:
a. extendb. transformc. activated. waste
Taken from ETS Website
LISTENING
6 or 9 listening sections 2 conversations / 4 lectures
3 conversations / 6 lectures 35 – 55 questions 50 – 90 minutes
TOEFL iBT Listening Materials
Conversations:Office HoursService Encounters
Lectures:ArtsLife SciencePhysical ScienceSocial Science
These conversations and talks are typical of those that occur on North American university campuses
Speaking Question TypesIndependent:
1. Question about a person, place, object, or event.
2. Question about preference from two possible actions, situations, or opinions
Integrated Listening/Reading/Speaking (questions #3 & #4)
Integrated Listening/Speaking (questions #5 & #6)
Examples of speaking questions
1. Choose a teacher you admire and explain why you admire him or her. Please include specific examples and details in your explanation.
2. Some students study for classes individually. Others study in groups. Which method of studying do you think is better for students and why?
Writing Section of the TOEFL iBT
The Integrated Writing Task
1. Read a passage about an academic topic
2. Listen to a lecture related to the topic
3. Write a summary of the main points
The Independent Writing Task• Write an essay about your opinion on an
issue
Example of Writing Question
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
TOEFL iBT
Number of Questions
Time
Reading 36 – 56 Qs 60 – 80 min
Listening 35 – 50 Qs 60 – 90 min
10 Minutes Break
Speaking 6 tasks 20 – 30 min
Writing 2 tasks 50 min
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