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The TOEFL iBT
Under two hours — and on a new 1–6 scale since January 2026.
The shape of it
TOEFL iBT, section by section.
| Section | Time | Questions | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 30 min | 50 items | |
| Listening | 29 min | 47 items | |
| Writing | 23 min | 12 items | |
| Speaking | 8 min | 11 items | Spoken into a microphone, scored later. |
The ledger
Every claim, and where it came from.
Open a row to read the wording that supports it and the page it was read from. Each statement was read off ETS’s own pages on 8 September 2026 and is quoted beside the value.
Total test timeAbout two hoursconfirmed
TOEFL iBT content page: "Please allow approximately two hours to complete the test."
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/about/content.html read 8 September 2026
Reading30 minutes · 50 itemsconfirmed
TOEFL iBT content table: Reading — "50" items in "30" minutes.
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/about/content.html read 8 September 2026
Listening29 minutes · 47 itemsconfirmed
TOEFL iBT content table: Listening — "47" items in "29" minutes.
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/about/content.html read 8 September 2026
Writing23 minutes · 12 itemsconfirmed
TOEFL iBT content table: Writing — "12" items in "23" minutes.
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/about/content.html read 8 September 2026
Speaking8 minutes · 11 itemsconfirmed
The shortest section on any test here.
TOEFL iBT content table: Speaking — "11" items in "8" minutes.
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/about/content.html read 8 September 2026
Score scale1–6, in half-point incrementsconfirmed
This changed on 21 January 2026. A score quoted out of 120 is the old scale.
TOEFL iBT scores page: "As of January 21, 2026, TOEFL iBT score reports feature a new 1 – 6 scale, in half point increments" and "You'll receive four section scores, as well as an overall score, on the 1 – 6 scale."
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/scores/understand-scores.html read 8 September 2026
Overall scoreThe average of the four sectionsconfirmed
Rounded to the nearest half band.
TOEFL iBT scores page: "The overall score will be the average of all four sections, rounded to the nearest half band".
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/scores/understand-scores.html read 8 September 2026
The old 0–120 scoreStill shown, for two yearsconfirmed
As a comparable overall score only.
TOEFL iBT scores page: "For a two-year transition period after January 2026, you will also receive a comparable overall score on the 0 – 120 scale, representing the midpoint of the corresponding total range."
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/scores/understand-scores.html read 8 September 2026
The calendar
When you can sit it.
No calendar. TOEFL iBT is sat by appointment, year round — ETS.
The TOEFL iBT is scheduled by appointment year round, at a test centre or at home, so there is no calendar to count down to. Plan backwards from the university deadline that needs the score.
Practice
From the people who write it.
Free official TOEFL iBT practice tests from ETS. Official practice for the TOEFL iBT.
This page reproduces no testing body’s questions. Official practice is the only material written by the people who write the real test, and every test here has some free.
Method
Where every figure comes from.
The sources
106 statements about 9 tests, each read off the testing body’s own page or PDF and quoted beside the value: College Board, ACT, Law School Admission Council, ETS, Graduate Management Admission Council and Association of American Medical Colleges — 38 official pages in all. The format statements were read on 8 September 2026 (the SAT’s added ones on 9 and 28 September 2026); the calendars were re-read on 28 September 2026. SAT score ranges for 700 colleges are the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, public-domain federal data, fetched 8 September 2026: 700 of the 1,037 schools that report an SAT average, complete down to an average of 1,102.
Fetched and computed
Nothing is fetched from a testing body when a page loads: the readings are two files on labs.llc, tests.json and colleges.json. What is computed, on labs.llc, at the moment you load the page: every countdown and registration state (in the body’s own time zone — Eastern, Central for the ACT), the study plan, the finder’s gauges and the arithmetic in the SAT page’s dealt openings.
The limits
These are readings, not a live feed: confirm a deadline on the body’s own site before you rely on it. Calendars end — SAT 5 Jun 2027, ACT 10 Jul 2027 and LSAT 12 Jun 2027 in these files, and the MCAT’s has already run out, which its page says. GMAC’s mba.com and the AAMC’s calendar sit behind browser checks this site will not try to get past; where that cost a reading, the page says so. The Scorecard figures are the latest cohort the Department had published, which trails the current admissions year.
What you type
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