TOEFL Overview

The TOEFL test is recognized by more than 8,500 colleges, universities and agencies in more than 130 countries, including Australia, Canada, the U.K. and the United States

You can take the TOEFL test at your choice of more than 4,500 conveniently located test sites in more than 165 countries worldwide. You also save time and money since the entire test is given in one day.

TOEFL Eligibility and Registration

Eligibility

TOEFL is mandatory for students planning to seek admission in any academic course at any level- undergraduate, graduate or post graduate, in USA and Canada. Anyone planning to take up his Bachelors / Master’s degree in USA/Canada should take this test.

TOEFL can also be taken by English-language learners who want to track their progress, it is not tied up with registration to the Bachelors / Master’s degree, it is an individual test, hence no one has any restriction in taking up the test to judge their English Language proficiency.

TOEFL Exam Pattern

The TOEFL exam helps to prove you have the English skills you will actually use in an academic classroom. In the test, you may read a passage from a textbook and listen to a lecture and then speak or write in response, just like you would in a classroom. Because the test is composed of 100% academic questions and tasks, many universities consider it the most appropriate test to use when making admissions decisions.

The TOEFL exam contains the following sections.

TOEFL Exam Dates and Scores

The TOEFL test is offered in two testing formats: the TOEFL IBT test, administered via the Internet, and the TOEFL PBT test, administered in a paper-based format. The format you take depends on your test center location.

The Exam dates differ based on the country in which the student takes the test, for details of the available dates in your country refer the following TOEFL site.

http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL/tclists/IBT_i.html

The Fee for the TOEFL exam varies from $160 to $250 based on the country in which the student takes the exam.

Scores