Prepare for the TOEFL ITP, as simple as that.

TOEFL ITP has the specificity of offering great flexibility to those who supervise sessions. Most of the time, these are teachers who want to model the test, depending on their desires. The latter have the possibility of defining the date of the test, the size of the group of candidates, but also the objectives targeted by the test. The TOEFL ITP is carried out entirely on paper and uses only university content.

The TOEFL ITP covers three areas of skills and is therefore made up of the following three tests:

“Listening”

The first one concerns the oral comprehension section.This section of the exam lasts a total of 25 minutes and assesses the candidate’s ability to understand spoken English like it’s used in universities and higher education institutions. The section contains 50 questions on audio recordings. These recordings can be extracts from short conversations or long conversations, on topics related to student life. This test is divided into 3 exercises

• Exercise 1: the candidate listens to 30 short conversations after which he must answer a question each time in the form of multiple choice questions. Each conversation can only be listened once.
• Exercise 2: the candidate listens to 2 long conversations. After each of them, he must answer 4 questions in the form of multiple choice questions. Once again, conversations cannot be listened to more than once.
• Exercise 3: the candidate listens to 3 extracts from academic courses (broadcast only once) at the end of which he must answer 4 multiple choice questions (for a total of 12 questions).

The questions asked in this oral comprehension section can relate to conversations, idioms, innuendo, rounded off, organization of conversations, etc..

“Structure and Written Expression”

This test assesses the structure of the language and written expression. Through several exercises, the candidate is tested on his knowledge of grammar and syntax and on his ability to spot errors in standard English texts. The topics covered mainly concern history, culture, literature and art, referring to Canada or the United States. This section lasts 25 minutes and is itself subdivided into 2 exercises.
The first is made up of 15 questions and you need to complete sentences by choosing from 4 possible answers. To give you a more clearer idea, here are some examples of questions you might find in this exercise:

• Example 1:
  “Advocates __________ on aquarium hobbyists to buy only fish bred in captivity.”
  
  Propositions:
  • have called
  • are called
  • calls
  • is calling
  Right answer: A
• Example 2:
  “Up to 90 percent of saltwater aquarium fish __________ to the U.S. are caught using cyanide.”
  
  Propositions:
  • import
  • importing
  • imports
  • imported
  Right answer: D
• Exercise 3: the candidate listens to 3 extracts from academic courses (broadcast only once) at the end of which he must answer 4 multiple choice questions (for a total of 12 questions).

The second exercise in this section includes 25 questions in the form of sentences, in which one has to identify a grammatical or syntax-based error. The format of this exercise is very specific so here are some examples that will help you better understand:

• Example 1:
  The (A) American Declaration of Independence (B) has been signed (C) on July 4, 1776 (D) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  
  The mistake is found:
  Right answer: B. The simple past needs to be used here: “was signed”.
• Example 2:
  Some voters (A) are calling for the president (B) to be arrested on (C) charge of of (D) conspiracy.
  
  The mistake is found:
  Right answer: C.. The plural must be used: “charges”.

“Reading”

This is a written comprehension test. It is used to assess the candidate's ability to read and understand university texts written in English. The Reading lasts 55 minutes and includes 50 questions with short academic texts (about 10 questions per text).

Exemple:

The presented text is around 300 words and talks about a project which uses solar energy. Here is the type of questions that can be asked in this exercise:

• Question 1:

  What is the main subject of the passage?

  • Bike paths
  • Solar panels
  • Solar roads
  • Chinese interstate systems
• Question 2:

  The author uses the expression That's not all to indicate that:

  • the Netherlands was the only country involved
  • France and the Netherlands worked together
  • he has no further examples
  • France and the Netherlands aren't the only ones who have integrated solar roads
• Question 3:

  Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word rounds?

  • ammunition
  • times
  • circles
  • praise

The TOEFL ITP score is calculated according to a precise algorithm specific to the test. It is therefore encouraged, not to neglect any question during this test because each of these represents a different number of points. To obtain a score, you must answer at least one question per section. The ITP TOEFL scoring system is specific: for each section of the test, the score is converted by a statistical average to a figure (between 31 and 68) on the TOEFL test scale, with an overall score between 310 and 677 which corresponds to the average of the scores per section, multiplied by 10 (except for level C1).

The TOEFL ITP is scored out of 677. The “Reading” section gives a score between 31 and 67. The “Writing” section is scored between 31 and 68 points. The “Listening” is also scored from 31 to 68.
The TOEFL test covers the language levels from A2 to C1 (according to the CEFR scale), which are the most common among English learners.

Here are the correspondence between TOEFL ITP score and official levels established by the CEFR: