AbouttherevisedTOEFLPaperdeliveredTest
TherevisedTOEFLPaperdeliveredTestconsistsof3sectionsReading,Listening,andWriting.The
testisabout3hourslong,andallsectionsaretakenonthesameday.
TestFormat
Thetablebelowsummarizesthestructureofthetest.
Section Questions Time
Reading 42multiplechoice 60minutes
Listening 34multiplechoice Approximately60minutes
Writing 2constructedresponse 50minutes
Total 78 2hours50minutes
Eachsectionisseparatelytimed.The2questionsintheWritingsectionarealsoseparatelytimed.
OverviewoftheTestSections
ReadingSection
TheReadingsectionmeasuresyourabilitytounderstanduniversitylevelacademictextwrittenin
English.Thetestusesreadingpassagesfromuniversityleveltextbooksthatintroduceatopic.The
excerptsarechangedaslittleaspossiblesothetestcanmeasurehowwellthetesttakercanreadactual
academicmaterial.
Thepassagescoveravarietyofsubjects.Youdonotneedtobefamiliarwiththetopic,becausethe
passagecontainsalltheinformationneededtoanswerthequestions.
TheReadingsectioncontains3passages,with14questionsabouteachpassage.Thereare3question
typesinthissection:
questionswith4answerchoicesandasinglecorrectanswerintraditionalmultiplechoice
format
questionswith4answerchoicesandasinglecorrectanswerthataskyoutoinsertasentence
whereitfitsbestinapassage
readingtolearnquestionswithmorethan4choicesandmorethan1correctanswer.
ListeningSection
TheListeningsectionmeasuresyourabilitytounderstandspokenEnglishinanacademicsetting.
Listeningmaterialinthetestincludeslecturesandconversations.Youcantakenotesonalllistening
materialthroughouttheentiretest.
TheListeningsectioncontains2conversationsand4lectures,with56questionsabouteach.
Thereare2questiontypesintheListeningsection:
traditionalmultiplechoicequestionswith4answerchoicesandasinglecorrectanswer
multiplechoicequestionswith2correctanswersoutof4choices
WritingSection
TheWritingsectionmeasuresyourabilitytowriteinEnglishinanacademicsetting.Itcontains1
integratedtaskand1independenttask.
Intheintegratedwritingtask,youwill:
takenotesonwhatyouhearandread,andusethemtoorganizeinformationbeforewriting
summarize,paraphrase,andciteinformationfromthesourcematerialaccurately
writeaboutthewaystheinformationyouheardrelatestotheinformationyouread
Forexample,inanacademiccourse,astudentmightbeaskedtocompareandcontrastthepointsof
viewexpressedbytheprofessorinclasswiththoseexpressedbyanauthorintheassignedreading
material.Thestudentmustsuccessfullydrawinformationfromeachsourcetocompletethetask.
Intheindependentwritingtask,youwillexpressanopinionaboutanissueandsupportitbasedonyour
ownknowledgeandexperience.
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