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TOFEL TEST

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is the most widely used standardized test of fluency in English in the world. It was orig­i­nally de­vel­oped in the 1960s to en­sure Eng­lish pro­fi­ciency for non-na­tive Eng­lish speak­ers wish­ing to study at U.S. uni­ver­si­ties. It has be­come an ad­mis­sion re­quire­ment for non-na­tive Eng­lish speak­ers at many U.S. uni­ver­si­ties and is now used by more than 8,500 col­leges, uni­ver­si­ties and agen­cies in 130 coun­tries, in­clud­ing the U.S., U.K., Canada and Aus­tralia.

While col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties make up the ma­jor­ity of in­sti­tu­tions that use the TOEFL, it is also used by med­ical and li­cens­ing or­ga­ni­za­tions for pro­fes­sional cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pur­poses and by im­mi­gra­tion de­part­ments for the is­suance of res­i­den­tial and work visas. In Aus­tralia the TOEFL can be used to meet the lan­guage re­quire­ment for stu­dent visas. In the UK it can be used to show Eng­lish pro­fi­ciency for tier 1, 2 and 4 visas.

Since its­ be­gin­ning, more than 27 mil­lion peo­ple from around the world have taken the TOEFL. The test is ad­min­is­tered by Ed­u­ca­tional Test­ing Ser­vice (ETS).

 

TOEFL IBT AND PBT

There are two versions of the TOEFL. The TOEFL iBT is an Internet-based test, and the TOEFL PBT is a pa­per-based test. The TOEFL iBT was first in­tro­duced in 2005, and is now used by most test tak­ers. Test cen­ters that do not have In­ter­net ac­cess ad­min­is­ter the TOEFL PBT. The paper-based test is be­ing phased out. Cur­rently, 96 per­cent of test tak­ers take the TOEFL iBT and that num­ber is con­tin­u­ing to grow.

The TOEFL iBT mea­sures the ability to read, write, listen and speak in English. The pa­per-based test mea­sures read­ing, writ­ing and lis­ten­ing, but does not mea­sure speak­ing. Pre­vi­ously, there was a com­puter-based ver­sion of the test (CBT) but that ver­sion was re­placed by the TOEFL iBT and elim­i­nated in 2006. TOEFL CBT scores are no longer valid.

 

MANHATTAN REVIEW TOEFL PREPARATION HOME

WHY WESTERN FOR TOEFL PREPARATION?

Our TOEFL course is thorough and rigorous. We will teach you what you need to know in the least amount of time. You will learn a de­con­struc­tive ap­proach to con­fi­dently ap­proach the TOEFL exam, and then ap­ply these tech­niques to prac­tice ques­tions, in­side and out­side of class.

We have created unique TOEFL prep material for stu­dents, who are se­ri­ous in achiev­ing a top score and are look­ing to ex­pose their full potential in the TOEFL test.

WE HAVE BEST TOEFL INSTRUCTORS IN THE VALLEY.

We are ex­cep­tion­ally careful when hir­ing its TOEFL teaching staff. We not only look for in­di­vid­u­als who have at­tained great test results, but also pay spe­cial at­ten­tion that can­di­dates have a passion for teaching and a track record in­spir­ing oth­ers.

IELTS TEST

IELTS is the In­ter­na­tional Eng­lish Lan­guage Test­ing Sys­tem, the world’s most pop­u­lar Eng­lish lan­guage pro­fi­ciency test for higher ed­u­ca­tion and global mi­gra­tion.

IELTS was one of the pi­o­neers of four skills Eng­lish lan­guage test­ing over 21 years ago, and con­tin­ues to set the stan­dard for Eng­lish lan­guage test­ing to­day.

Over 9,000 or­ga­ni­za­tions around the world trust and rec­og­nize IELTS as a se­cure, valid and re­li­able in­di­ca­tor of true-to-life abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate in Eng­lish for ed­u­ca­tion, im­mi­gra­tion and pro­fes­sional ac­cred­i­ta­tion.

More than 2 mil­lion IELTS tests were taken in the last year and IELTS ex­am­i­na­tion ser­vices are pro­vided through more than 800 test cen­ters and lo­ca­tions in over 140 coun­tries.

IELTS is jointly owned by British Coun­cil, IDP: IELTS Aus­tralia and Cam­bridge Eng­lish Lan­guage As­sess­ment. For more in­for­ma­tion visit the IELTS Part­ner web­site www.ielts.org.

SAT TEST

SAT BASICS

The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) is the most widely used stan­dard­ized test for admission to college in the U.S. It was taken nearly 3 mil­lion times last year. The SAT mea­sures read­ing, writ­ing and math skills nec­es­sary for aca­d­e­mic suc­cess in col­lege. The most com­mon time for high school stu­dents to take the test for the first time is spring of their ju­nior year of high school. The SAT is a paper-based test and it is of­fered seven times a year in the US and six times a year in­ter­na­tion­ally.

The SAT is owned and de­vel­oped by The Col­lege Board, a non-profit or­ga­ni­za­tion rep­re­sent­ing more than 6,000 col­leges, uni­ver­si­ties and schools. It was for­merly de­vel­oped by Ed­u­ca­tional Test­ing Ser­vice, which still ad­min­is­ters the test. The test was first in­tro­duced in 1926, and was pre­vi­ously called the Scholas­tic Ap­ti­tude Test.

The test is in­tended to serve as a stan­dard­ized mea­sure of col­lege readi­ness and to pro­vide a na­tional per­spec­tive to lo­cal high school GPAs and class rank. All US col­leges ac­cept the SAT and most re­quire that in­com­ing stu­dents take ei­ther the SAT or its ri­val the ACT as part of the ap­pli­ca­tion process. Var­i­ous stud­ies have shown that when SAT scores are com­bined with high school GPA there is a cor­re­la­tion with the level of suc­cess in the first year of col­lege.

There are also SAT Subject Tests that high school stu­dents can take to demon­strate their pro­fi­ciency in cer­tain sub­ject ar­eas. These tests are sep­a­rate from the SAT and are gen­er­ally not re­quired for col­lege ad­mis­sion. Stu­dents may elect to take one or many SAT Sub­ject Tests to send col­leges ex­tra ev­i­dence of their mas­tery of cer­tain sub­jects. In some cases, SAT Sub­ject Tests can be used to ful­fill ba­sic sub­ject area re­quire­ments or earn credit for in­tro­duc­tory level courses. There are 20 sub­ject tests of­fered in five sub­ject ar­eas: Eng­lish, his­tory, lan­guages, math and sci­ence.

 

INFORMATION ABOUT THE SAT FORMAT

SAT TEST FORMAT

The SAT runs three hours and 45 min­utes. There are three main subject areas of the SAT: Crit­i­cal Reading, Math and Writing. The test is di­vided into 10 sec­tions – there are three sec­tions for each sub­ject area, and one “ex­per­i­men­tal” sec­tion that could be in any of the three sub­jects.

The test be­gins with a 25-minute Writ­ing sec­tion, which in­volves writ­ing one es­say. The last sec­tion of the test is al­ways a 10-minute Writ­ing sec­tion that con­tains only one type of mul­ti­ple-choice ques­tion called “Im­prov­ing Sen­tences.” The eight sec­tions in be­tween the first and last sec­tion can ap­pear in any or­der. They in­clude: two 25-minute Math sec­tions; two 25-minute Crit­i­cal Read­ing sec­tions; one 25-minute Writ­ing sec­tion; one 25-minute ex­per­i­men­tal sec­tion, which could be Math, Writ­ing or Crit­i­cal Read­ing; one 20-minute Math sec­tion; and one 20-minute Crit­i­cal Read­ing sec­tion.

The SAT is scored on a scale of 600 to 2400. Each sub­ject area (Math, Writ­ing and Crit­i­cal Read­ing) is scored on a scale of 200 to 800. The three sub­ject area scores are added to­gether to get the to­tal score. Es­say is op­tional in New SAT.

The three SAT subject areas are:

The ques­tions in the three Crit­i­cal Read­ing sec­tions in­clude Read­ing Com­pre­hen­sion ques­tions and Sen­tence Com­ple­tion ques­tions. Both of these types of ques­tions are used to test read­ing com­pre­hen­sion skills and vo­cab­u­lary.

The three Math sec­tions test al­ge­bra, geom­e­try, arith­metic, data analy­sis, sta­tis­tics and prob­a­bil­ity.

The writ­ing sec­tion of the SAT is made up of one es­say sec­tion and two sec­tions fo­cus­ing on gram­mar. The 25-minute es­say ques­tion is al­ways the first sec­tion of the test. A 10-minute Im­prov­ing Sen­tences sec­tion is al­ways the last sec­tion of the test. Some­where in be­tween there is a 25-minute sec­tion that in­cludes three types of mul­ti­ple-choice ques­tions: Iden­ti­fy­ing Sen­tence Er­rors, Im­prov­ing Sen­tences and Im­prov­ing Para­graphs.

  • Critical Reading
  • Mathematics
  • Writing