The TOEFL® Family

of Assessments:
Trusted information for
more confident decisions
TOEFL Primary®

TOEFL Junior®

TOEFL ITP®

TOEFL iBT ®
 Get the accurate
and comprehensive
information you need to
confidently guide learning
and inform teaching.
The TOEFL® Family of Assessments:
Helping institutions assess more students at more English-language proficiency levels.

With the TOEFL® Family of Assessments, you can rest assured that the important decisions you make about your students will have
a long-term positive impact on your institution. Each TOEFL test is designed to measure English-language skills through tasks that
reflect the appropriate proficiency, cognitive ability, and age levels of students. And this provides you with actionable information to
help drive learning, and improve both student achievement and your school’s reputation. So, for admissions, program placement,
advancement, and exiting, the TOEFL Family of Assessments has a test to meet all of your needs.

CEFR Levels
(Common European
Framework of
Reference)

C2
PROFICIENT

C1
The TOEFL ITP® Tests The TOEFL iBT ® Test
INDEPENDENT

• Placement • Admissions
B2 The TOEFL Junior® • Scholarships
• Monitoring
Tests
• Advancement • Visas
B1 The TOEFL Primary®
• Placement
• Skill Building • Immigration
Tests
• Monitoring • Admissions to
• Monitoring
A2 • Advancement
Specific Programs
BASIC

• Advancement

A1 • Teacher Support

AGE OF TEST TAKERS 8+ Years 11+ Years 16+ Years

Use this chart to determine which TOEFL test is best based on intended use and student age group.
The TOEFL Primary® Tests The TOEFL Junior® Tests
For young students, to measure current English skills and provide For middle-school to early high-school-level English-language
a foundation for future success (ages 8+) programs (ages 11+)

TOEFL Primary ® tests are designed to assess English-language The TOEFL Junior® tests are trusted around the globe to help
proficiency of young students ages 8+ in reading, listening, build students’ English-language skills and confidence. The tests
and speaking. The TOEFL Primary tests provide support for are designed with smaller scoring intervals to show teaching
teaching and learning with information about your students’ impact and student progress.
abilities, engaging content, and feedback that helps keep young
Benefits of the TOEFL Junior tests include:
learners motivated.
•  Highly accurate scoring and convenient administrations that
Benefits of the TOEFL Primary tests include: ensure data you can trust

•  Assessment of multiple proficiency levels, so you can confidently •  Meaningful and easy-to-understand score reports and
measure all your students’ skills performance feedback that give a complete look at a student’s
ability and facilitate communication with parents
•  Performance feedback and recommendations about next steps
to help guide student learning •  Student achievement mapped to CEFR levels for
international benchmarking
•  Scores mapped to CEFR levels, for comparison of your students’
abilities in relation to international benchmarks •  Teacher and student resources available to support and drive
student learning
•  Reading scores that are linked to Lexile® measures, making it
easier to find the books and articles that best match students’ •  Score reports with the student’s Lexile measure to support
English reading level and help improve their reading ability reading development and improve English reading proficiency

•  Easy-to-understand score reports and achievement certificates •  Achievement certificates to illustrate student progress for parents
to illustrate student progress for parents
Ways you can use TOEFL Junior scores:
Ways you can use TOEFL Primary scores:
•  Determine whether your students have the English skills needed
•  Guide teaching goals to succeed in a classroom that uses English for instruction

•  Monitor student progress •  Place students in English-language programs so they are

matched with level-appropriate instruction
•  Identify student strengths and weaknesses
•  Monitor progress over time to gauge student learning and inform
•  Determine instructional plans teaching decisions
•  Inform placement decisions in levels of English instruction
Learn how the TOEFL Junior tests can power your program
•  Shape communication with parents about student learning by visiting www.ets.org/toefljunior
Learn how the TOEFL Primary tests can drive learning
in your program by visiting www.ets.org/toeflprimary
The TOEFL ITP® Tests The TOEFL iBT® Test
For university-level English-language learning programs For university-level admissions (ages 16+)
(ages 16+)
Using 100% academic content, the TOEFL iBT test measures
Trusted by more than 2,500 institutions in 50+ countries, academic English skills the way they are actually used in a
the TOEFL ITP® Assessment Series helps students expand their university classroom setting—including reading, listening,
possibilities through English. Based on the rich heritage of speaking, and writing.
the TOEFL® test, the series empowers teachers to tailor their
The TOEFL test is accepted and trusted by more than 10,000
instruction so they can confidently guide students to the next
institutions, immigration authorities, and scholarship agencies
step of learning.
in over 150 countries worldwide, including Australia, Canada,
Benefits of the TOEFL ITP tests include: New Zealand, the U.S., the U.K., and across Europe and Asia.

•  100% academic content assesses skills students actually need Benefits of the TOEFL iBT test include:
•  Superior score accuracy
•  Access to a large and diverse applicant pool
•  Convenient, affordable, and flexible local administration to test
when you need to •  Rigorous research to support design and validity

•  Two levels that test students in a range of proficiencies •  Accurate and unbiased scores institutions can trust

•  Mapping to the Common European Framework of Reference •  Test taker scores mapped to CEFR levels for
(CEFR) for comparison with a global benchmark international benchmarking

Ways you can use TOEFL ITP scores: Ways you can use TOEFL iBT scores:

•  Placement and exiting for English-language programs •  College and university admissions

•  Progress monitoring •  Graduate program admissions

•  Scholarship programs •  Fellowship and scholarship awards

•  Admissions to short-term, non-degree programs •  Visas and immigration

•  Skill building and preparation for the TOEFL iBT® test •  Teacher certification

•  University exit Learn more about becoming a TOEFL iBT score

user by visiting www.ets.org/toefl/institutions
Learn how the TOEFL ITP Assessment Series
can give your school a global advantage by visiting
www.ets.org/toeflitp
A Quick Reference Guide to the TOEFL® Family of Assessments
The TOEFL Primary® Tests The TOEFL Junior® Tests The TOEFL ITP® Tests The TOEFL iBT® Test

Student Young students in English- Middle-school and lower levels of High-school and university-aged High-school and university-aged
Age Group language programs (8+) high-school-aged students (11+) students in English-language students (16+)
programs (16+)

Skills Academic and social Academic and social 100% academic content 100% academic content
Measured English-language skills English-language skills
• Listening Comprehension • Reading
• Reading and • Listening Comprehension • Structure and • Listening
Listening Step 1 • Language Form Written Expression • Speaking
• Reading and and Meaning • Reading Comprehension • Writing
Listening Step 2 • Reading Comprehension
• Speaking • Speaking Available in 2 proficiency levels

Test Delivery/ TOEFL Primary® Reading TOEFL Junior® Standard: Paper or digital delivery Delivered via the internet
Test Method and Listening: Paper or digital delivery with high levels of security
Paper or digital delivery for both test content and
TOEFL Junior® Speaking: testing conditions
TOEFL Primary® Speaking: Digital delivery
Digital delivery

Test Institutional Testing: Institutional Testing: Institutional Testing: Test Centers:

Administration Schools request test Schools request test Schools request test Delivered at secure, ETS-
administration dates at their administration dates at their administration dates at their approved test centers via
institution for their own students institution for their own students institution for their own students the internet

Scoring Scored by local ETS Preferred Scored by ETS or local ETS Scored by ETS or local ETS Secure, centralized scoring by ETS
Network offices Preferred Network offices Preferred Network offices (both human and automated)
Scores are valid for 1 year Scores are valid for 2 years Scores are valid for 2 years Scores are valid for 2 years
TOEFL Primary Reading and TOEFL Junior Standard scores Includes section scores and Scores range from 0–120
Listening score levels range from: range from: total score
All score reports include:
• 1–4 Stars for each section • Overall scores from 1–5 Scores range from:
• The section scores and total
of Step 1
• Section scores from • Level 1: 310–677 score from a single test date
• 1–5 Badges for each section 200–300
• Level 2: 200–500 • MyBest™ scores, which are
of Step 2
TOEFL Junior Speaking scores the combination of the
TOEFL Primary Speaking scores range from 0–16 student’s best section scores
range from 0–27 from all valid test dates in
the previous 2 years
• A link to performance
descriptors, expressed in
“can-do” statements
Prep for Success
ETS offers official test preparation resources to help improve
students’ English skills and prepare for test success, including:

FREE TOEFL iBT® Prep:

• TOEFL iBT ® Free Practice Test

• TOEFL iBT ® Official App

• TOEFL® Test Preparation: The Insider’s Guide

• TOEFL® Test Prep Planner

Paid TOEFL iBT® Prep:

• TOEFL® Practice Online

• The Official Guide to the TOEFL® Test

• Official TOEFL iBT® Tests with Audio

• TOEFL® Value Packs

A growing line of prep materials for other TOEFL assessments are

available, including sample test questions and practice tests:

TOEFL Primary: www.ets.org/toefl_primary/prepare

TOEFL Junior: www.ets.org/toefl_junior/prepare
TOEFL ITP: www.ets.org/toefl_itp/content/test_preparation
TOEFL iBT: www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/prepare
Make more confident decisions about your students
with the TOEFL® Family of Assessments.
About ETS

At ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for people worldwide by creating assessments based on rigorous research.
ETS serves individuals, educational institutions, and government agencies by providing customized solutions for teacher
certification, English-language learning, and elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education, as well as conducting
education research, analysis, and policy studies. Founded as a nonprofit in 1947, ETS develops, administers, and scores more than
50 million tests annually—including the TOEFL® and TOEIC ® tests, the GRE® tests and The Praxis Series® assessments—in more
than 180 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide.

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