TOEFL TOEIC and IELTS

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about TOEFL TOEIC and IELTS.

TOEFL iBT Information

      The Test of English Language as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) evaluates the potential success of an individual to understand and use Standard American English at a collage level. It is required for non-native applicants at many colleges and universities, as well as government agencies, businesses or scholarship programs.

iBT Test Content

• Reading: The reading section consists of 3–5 long passages and questions about the passages on academic topics. New types of questions in the iBT require paraphrasing, filling out tables, or completing summaries.
• Listening: It consists of six long passages and questions about the passages. The questions ask the students to determine main ideas, details, function, stance, inferences, and overall organization.
• Speaking: It consists of six tasks, two independent tasks and four integrated tasks. In the two independent tasks, students must answer opinion questions about some aspect of academic life. In two integrated reading, listening, and speaking tasks, students must read a passage, listen to a passage, and speak about how the ideas in the two passages are related. In two integrated listening and speaking tasks, students must listen to long passages and then summarize and offer opinions on the information in the passages.
• Writing: The Writing Section consists of two tasks, one integrated task and one independent task. In the integrated task, students must read an academic passage, listen to an academic passage, and write about how the ideas in the two passages are related. In the independent task, students must write a personal essay.

Test Duration: 4 hours

TOEIC Information

             The Test of English for International Communication is produced by ETS (Educational Testing Service). TOEIC test questions are based on real-life work settings in an international environment (meetings, travel, telephone conversations, etc).

               The Test is used by organisations to determine whether an employee is suitable for a particular task. If you work or want to work for a large organisation, particularily in Asia, then the TOEIC test will be useful to you.

TOEIC Test Content

               There are two separate parts to the TOEIC test. You can do one or both parts.

• The Listening and Reading test.  The TOEIC Listening and Reading test is paper-based, lasts approximately 2 hours and comprises 200 questions in listening comprehension and reading. Each section is scored separately on a scale ranging from 5 to 495 points. The total score possible on the test is hence between 10 and 990 points. The format of the questions has been redesigned, and now includes: Longer listening stimuli, Short conversations as sets, Varied accents, Real-world listening skills tested, Reduced number of photographic items, More time for testing authentic tasks, Text-based sentence completion items, Use of two interrelated passages in some reading sets, and Better reading proficiency testing.
• The Speaking and Writing test.  This internet-based test lasts approximately 90 minutes. The two sections of the test (speaking and writing) are independent of each other and test-takers receive a separate score for each. The Speaking test measures skills such as pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, and fluency. The Writing test assesses vocabulary and grammar, as well as coherence and organisation. The test includes integrated tasks that are reflective of actual English usage in the workplace.

TEST Duration: 2 hours 90 minutes

IELTS Information

              IELTS is the International English Language Testing System which measures ability to communicate in English across all four language skills – listening, reading, writing and speaking – for people who intend to study or work where English is the language of communication.

IELTS Test content

• Listening: It consists of 4 parts of total 40 questions. The first two parts are on daily life topics and the other two on academic topics. The questions may vary: multiple choices, sentence completion, flow chart completion, pairing, etc. After listening, the test takers would have time to answer on the answer paper.
• Academic Reading: This part consists of 3 short stories with 40 questions whose contents are general topics taken from several printings: magazines, books and newspapers. Some of them contain diagrams or graphs. The questions may vary: multiple choices, sentence completion, flow chart completion, pairing, etc.
• Academic Writing: This part consists of 2 topics. The first topic is to write the description of diagram or table. In the second part, the test takers are to give opinions concerning the given issues.

Test Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes + 11 to 14 minutes of Speaking section

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