Wednesday 10 December 2014

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is a standardized test used to measure English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers wishing for admittance into US universities. It is also one of the major English language tests in the world besides IELTS.
TOEFL is designed and administered by ETS (Educational Testing Service), a private non-profit organization, which designs and administers the tests. The scores are valid for two years; then they are no longer reported.

Who Is TOEFL Test For?

With over 27 million people from all over the world have taken the TOEFL test .TOEFL test have become a must for the following set of people
v  Students planning to study at a higher education institution
v  English-language learning program admissions and exit
v  Scholarship and certification candidates
v  English-language learners who want to track their progress
v  Students and workers applying for visas
Benefits of TOEFL
The benefits of the TOEFL exam is the fact that it serve as an admission requirement in more than 9000 college and universities in about 130 countries around the world and it still counting
A couple of thousand Nigerians have also taken the TOEFL test
What is the content of the test?
The TOEFL iBT exam has a total of four sections which takes around four and a half hours to complete. All the questions and tasks in the exam test your proficiency in the English language on four categories:





reading

3–5 passages,12–14 questions

60–100 minutes
listening

6–9 passages,5–6 questions
60–90 minutes
speaking

6 task

20 munites
writing

2 task
50 munites

1.    Reading
The Reading section consists of questions on 4–6 passages, each approximately 700 words in length. The passages are on academic topics; they are the kind of material that might be found in an undergraduate university textbook. Passages require understanding of rhetorical functions such as cause-effect, compare-contrast and argumentation. Students answer questions about main ideas, details, inferences, essential information, sentence insertion, vocabulary, rhetorical purpose and overall ideas. New types of questions in the TOEFL iBT test require filling out tables or completing summaries. Prior knowledge of the subject under discussion is not necessary to come to the correct answer.
2.    Listening
The Listening section consists of questions on six passages, each 3–5 minutes in length. These passages include two student conversations and four academic lectures or discussions. The conversations involve a student and either a professor or a campus service provider. The lectures are a self-contained portion of an academic lecture, which may involve student participation and does not assume specialized background knowledge in the subject area. Each conversation and lecture passage is heard only once. Test-takers may take notes while they listen and they may refer to their notes when they answer the questions. Each conversation is associated with five questions and each lecture with six. The questions are meant to measure the ability to understand main ideas, important details, implications, relationships between ideas, organization of information, speaker purpose and speaker attitude.
3.    Speaking
The Speaking section consists of six tasks: two independent and four integrated. In the two independent tasks, test-takers answer opinion questions on familiar topics. They are evaluated on their ability to speak spontaneously and convey their ideas clearly and coherently. In two of the integrated tasks, test-takers read a short passage, listen to an academic course lecture or a conversation about campus life and answer a question by combining appropriate information from the text and the talk. In the two remaining integrated tasks, test-takers listen to an academic course lecture or a conversation about campus life and then respond to a question about what they heard. In the integrated tasks, test-takers are evaluated on their ability to appropriately synthesize and effectively convey information from the reading and listening material. Test-takers may take notes as they read and listen and may use their notes to help prepare their responses. Test-takers are given a short preparation time before they have to begin speaking. The responses are digitally recorded, sent to ETS’s Online Scoring Network (OSN), and evaluated by three to six raters.
4.    Writing
The Writing section measures a test taker's ability to write in an academic setting and consists of two tasks: one integrated and one independent. In the integrated task, test-takers read a passage on an academic topic and then listen to a speaker discuss it. The test-taker then writes a summary about the important points in the listening passage and explains how these relate to the key points of the reading passage. In the independent task, the test-taker must write an essay that states their opinion or choice, and then explain it.
TOEFL tutorial and exam at JSAY PRE-VARSITY
Our TOEFL class is well structured to fit any age group and time of availability. We have

2 weeks class
4 weeks class
6 weeks to 3 month
Exam cost
TOEFL  test cost  $200 or =N=34000 ;
it also important to check ETS official website to get the current exam prizing
Test materials for TOEFL  
We provide our students with different test materials such as books’ exam prep etc
You could call us on our numbers as seen
08098352510
 if you need to start a class right away
Exam date
The TOEFL test conducted throughout the year and available dates can be checked on the Educational Testing Service website before registration.
Other exam centers in Nigeria
IBADAN (at jsay)
Benin
Lagos
Kano
Kaduna
Enugu
Portharcourt

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