Background information
TOEFL Gives you:
- 6 passgages
- The 6 passages are in groups of 3
- Each group has 1 conversation, 1 class discussion, 1 lecture
- Each passage has about 5-7 questions
- You have 20 minutes
Experimental Section:
- Your Listening Section could have an "Experimental Group"
- This means you will have 9 passages total to answer in 30 minutes
- You will NOT know which group of passages is the experimental group
Conversations have:
- One man and one woman
- One student talking to a professor or an administrator
- Conversations that either resolve a problem or clarify a situation
Class Discussions have:
- One professor, one male student, & one female student
- Academic content about a university topic
- Students who ask questions and/or answer the professor's questions
Lectures have:
- One professor who talks without interruption
- Content that typically breaks down into subsections
Question Types:
- Topic / Main Idea
- Detail
- Attitude / Purpose
- Inference / Prediction
- Categorizing
- Summary Function
