The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL test) has undergone some important changes. In order to meet the challenge of providing a more comprehensive assessment of an applicant’s ability to understand and use the English language in an academic environment, the TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) has been developed to assess all four language skills – listening, reading, writing, and speaking. While some questions in each of the sections will be similar to questions found on the computer-based TOEFL test (CBT), others will be new

The scoring system has changed as well. Each of the four language skills will now be reported on a scale of 0 to 30 and there will also be a total score. In addition, the TOEFL iBT Test no longer has computer-adaptive sections; it is a linear assessment test covering a full range of question difficulty. Note taking is allowed on the new TOEFL exam in order to better reflect real-life academic situations. The new TOEFL iBT Test takes approximately four hours to finish.