ETS rebuilt this test on 21 January 2026. Reading and Listening now adapt to you mid-test, Speaking became Listen and Repeat plus an interview, Writing gained ten sentence-building items, and scores are reported from 1 to 6. Pendorai practises that test — not the one that came before it.
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One TOEFL exam screen from the app — ideally a Read an Academic Passage item with the timer and the passage visible.
public/images/tests/toefl-ibt/exam-runner.pngAll four sections in one sitting.
Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking — in that order.
Up to 50 Reading and 47 Listening; 12 Writing and 11 Speaking.
Reported in 0.5 increments.
Test flowThe order is fixed, and Reading and Listening each change shape part-way through depending on how you are doing.
Reading
Up to 30 min · up to 50 items
Complete the Words, Read in Daily Life and Read an Academic Passage. The stimulus stays on screen while you answer.
Listening
Up to 29 min · up to 47 items
Short responses, conversations, announcements and academic talks. Every recording plays once.
Writing
23 min · 12 items
Ten Build a Sentence items, one email, and one contribution to an academic discussion.
Speaking
8 min · 11 responses
Seven sentences to repeat inside one scenario, then a four-question recorded interview.
AdaptiveReading and Listening are two-stage adaptive. Everyone starts on the same moderate router module; how you do on it decides which second module you get. The switch happens once, between modules — never after a single question.
ReadingA typing task, a practical-text task and an academic passage. The text stays visible the whole time you are answering its questions.
CEFR B1–C1+ · 10 blanks per text
A C-test, not a conventional gap-fill.
CEFR A1–C1 · 2–3 questions
A short practical text of about 15–150 words.
CEFR B1–C2 · 5 questions
Roughly 200 words of expository academic prose.
ListeningInput runs from a single short utterance up to a 250-word talk, delivered at natural pace with normal colloquial English.
CEFR A1–B2 · 15–19 items
Hear one short question or statement, pick the best reply.
CEFR A2–C1 · 2 questions each
A short exchange between two speakers.
CEFR A2–C1 · 2 questions each
A 40–85 word campus or classroom broadcast.
CEFR A2–C2 · 4 questions each
A 175–250 word monologue from an educator or expert.
Accents cover North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
WritingMost of this section is not essay writing at all. Ten of the twelve items are exact sentence reconstruction.
10 items · 1 point each
Rearrange chunks into one correct reply.
1 item · 0–5 · 7 minutes
An academic or social scenario with a defined purpose.
1 item · 0–5 · 10 minutes
A professor's question and two classmates' posts.
SpeakingThere is no longer an independent preference task or a set of read-and-listen integrated tasks. Those belong to the older TOEFL.
7 responses · 8–12s windows
One scenario, seven sentences, repeated back exactly.
4 responses · 45s each
A simulated interview with a prerecorded interviewer.
ScoringRaw points and reported scores are two different things. Reading and Listening are equated for difficulty, so a percentage is never the score.
In 0.5 increments, per section.
From 50 presented items.
From 47 presented items.
10 × 1 point, plus two 0–5 responses.
Speaking carries eleven responses scored 0–5, for 55 raw points. Because the adaptive route and item difficulty are equated, no fixed percentage converts a raw total into a reported score.
In PendoraiSit a full paper, or drill one task type until it stops costing you marks. Either way it is marked, explained, and folded back into what you study next.
The 2026 tasks, not the old ones.
Complete the Words, Build a Sentence, Listen and Repeat and Take an Interview are all here as their own practice modes, alongside full mock tests.
Adaptive practice you can actually see.
Sit a full form and watch which route you were sent down, and which task types your route gave you more of.
Spoken answers scored in seconds.
Repetition accuracy, interview responses, pace and intelligibility come back with the exact words that cost you marks.
Everything folds back into your plan.
The grammar you lost points on becomes lessons in your study plan, and your tutor already knows why they are there.
The same study plan feeds every exam you sit. Pick the next one.