TOEFL iBT · 2026 format
Take an Interview is four items, five points each. You get raw points and a diagnostic for elaboration, grammar, vocabulary and prosody — the 1–6 Speaking band comes from a full sitting. Reading and Listening adapt as you go, the same way the test has since January 2026.
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You're speaking with an academic adviser during enrolment week.
Describe the building on campus you use most often, and what you do there.
Four questions, each one harder than the last. ETS scores these in raw points, five per question — the 1 to 6 band is reported per section, from a full sitting. The 0 to 100 diagnostic beside the score is ours, not ETS's.
2026 format
On 21 January 2026, ETS shortened the iBT to roughly 90 minutes, made Reading and Listening adaptive, and replaced the 0–120 total with a 1–6 scale in half-point steps. Your overall score is now the average of the four section scores, rounded to the nearest half point. During the transition to January 2028, score reports also carry a comparable 0–120 total and your CEFR level, so both numbers will follow you around for a while.
Practice built for the old format still works your English. It just won't tell you what your score will be.
| Before 21 Jan 2026 | Now | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | About 2 hours | 1 hr 23 min to 1 hr 29 min |
| Reading, Listening | Fixed difficulty | Multistage adaptive |
| Section score | 0–30 | 1–6, half-point steps |
| Overall | Sum, 0–120 | Average of four sections |
| Results | 4–8 days | About 72 hours |
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Practice · Complete the Words
No clockCoral reefs occupy less than one percent of the ocean floor, yet they sup _ _ _ roughly a quarter of all marine spec _ _ _. When water warms, the algae living inside the coral are exp _ _ _, draining the colour and the food supply at once.
Why these endings
Each blank is fixed by the words around it, not by the topic. A plural subject forces support, the quarter-of-all claim forces a countable noun, and the passive construction forces expelled.
Complete the Words is 30 of the 50 Reading items.
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What you get back
When you finish a section, you get a section score, because it happened and it's measurable. Your ability estimate is different: it's an inference from every answer you've given, so it's reported as a range that narrows as you do more work. Anyone showing you a single predicted score is guessing and hiding it.
Until we have enough of your answers to say something useful, we show no estimate at all rather than a range so wide it's meaningless.
Where your ability sits now
4.0–5.0
A range, because an estimate without one is a guess dressed up as a fact.
Flip between the two. A graded sitting gives you a number; an ability estimate gives you a range.
Sections
All figures come from the ETS per-section blueprint tables. Organised by task type, because that's what a test taker sees on screen. Twelve task types across four sections.
50 items · 27–30 minutes · adaptive
An 18–21 minute router module sets the difficulty of a 9-minute second module. All items machine scored.
| Task type | Items | CEFR target |
|---|---|---|
| Complete the Words | 30 | B1–C1+ |
| Read an Academic Passage | 5–15 | B1–C2 |
| Read in Daily Life | 5–15 | A1–C1 |
47 items · 25–29 minutes · adaptive
An 18-minute router module, then 7 or 11 minutes depending on routing. All items machine scored.
| Task type | Items | CEFR target |
|---|---|---|
| Listen and Choose a Response | 15–19 | A1–B2 |
| Listen to a Conversation | 10 | A2–C1 |
| Listen to an Academic Talk | 8–16 | A2–C2 |
| Listen to an Announcement | 6–10 | A2–C1 |
12 items · 23 minutes
| Task type | Items | CEFR target | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build a Sentence | 10 | A1–C2 | Machine |
| Write an Email | 1 | B1–C2 | AI |
| Write for an Academic Discussion | 1 | B1–C2 | AI |
11 items · 8 minutes
| Task type | Items | CEFR target | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listen and Repeat | 7 | A1–C2 | AI |
| Take an Interview | 4 | A1–C2 | AI |
120 items, and a total test time between 1 hr 23 min and 1 hr 29 min depending on adaptive routing. ETS machine-scores 108 of those items and AI scores the other 12. Each section is reported on the 1–6 scale and the overall is the average of the four, so every section carries equal weight regardless of how many raw points it holds.
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