This document provides an overview of the TOEFL iBT (Internet-based Test). It is divided into four sections: Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing. Each section contains multiple choice questions and tasks to be completed within a set time limit. The entire test takes approximately 4 hours and results in a score between 0-120. Reading involves 3-4 texts and 12-14 questions per text over 60-80 minutes. Listening contains conversations and lectures with 35-55 total questions over 50-90 minutes. Speaking consists of 6 tasks requiring responses within 20-30 minutes. Writing includes an integrated and independent task to be finished in 50 minutes.

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A Brief Overview
of TOEFL iBT
Howard Burns
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2. TOEFL iBT
Testing
Points
Reading
Listening
10 minutes break
Speaking
Writing
Test
Duration
4 hours
Score
range
0 – 120

3. READING
• 3 or 4 Texts
• 60 or 80 minutes
• Each text between
550 – 750 words
• 12 – 14 questions
for each text

4. TOEFL Reading Question Types
Basic Information and Inferencing Questions:Basic Information and Inferencing Questions:
1.1. Factual information questionsFactual information questions
2.2. Negative factual information questionsNegative factual information questions
3.3. Inference question questionsInference question questions
4.4. Rhetorical purpose questionsRhetorical purpose questions
5.5. Vocabulary questionsVocabulary questions
6.6. Reference questionsReference questions
7.7. Sentence simplification questionsSentence simplification questions
8.8. Insert text questionsInsert text questions
Reading to Learn questions:Reading to Learn questions:
9. Prose summary9. Prose summary
10. Fill in a table10. Fill in a table

5. 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. extend
b. transform
c. activate
d. waste
Taken from ETS
Website

8. LISTENING
 6 or 9 listening sections
 2 conversations / 4 lectures
3 conversations / 6 lectures
 35 – 55 questions
 50 – 90 minutes

9. TOEFL iBT Listening Materials
Conversations:
Office Hours
Service Encounters
Lectures:
Arts
Life Science
Physical Science
Social Science
These conversations and talks are typical of those
that occur on North American university campuses

10. Speaking Question Types
Independent:
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)

13. 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?

16. 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

17. 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.

26. 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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