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Taking TOEFL: Registration, Preparation, Test Day, and Scores

My official TOEFL score report. It shows a score of 5.5 in reading and 6.0 in listening, speaking, and writing. My overall score is 6.0/118 out of 120.

I took TOEFL on February 18th. It was a multi-step process, and in this blog post I share the necessary steps and what my experience was like. Registering for TOEFL I registered for my test on January 4th, and I chose to take it at a test center here in Santiago. At that time the […]

TOEFL Writing: Less Time, More Tasks

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In the last part of this mini series about the new TOEFL we’re looking at the writing section. We’ll see what the previous writing section required, the new writing section, my thoughts, and how people can prepare. What was the old TOEFL writing section like? The former TOEFL writing section had two questions: Writing Based […]

TOEFL Reading and Listening: New Question Types and Adaptive Testing

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If you’ve been paying attention to the news about English Language Testing or have been following me on LinkedIn, you already know that the new TOEFL has undergone some major changes. In this blog post I’m going to discuss changes to the reading and listening section and how adaptive testing changes the experience for test […]