Hi Students!

Educational Testing Service (ETS), the creator of the TOEIC Program, announced updates to the format of questions used in the TOEIC  Listening and Reading test. The changes took effect beginning with the April 2018 public test administrations.

In order to present a comparison between the current and updated versions of the test, ETS has provided the following summary of the changes.

Listening Section

• A reduced number of Photograph and Question Response questions
• An increased number of Conversation questions
• Conversations that include shorter turns and more exchanges
• More than two speakers in some conversations
• Conversations that include elisions (going to à gonna) and incomplete sentences/fragments (Yes, in a minute; Down the hall; Could you?)
• New question types testing the connection of what is heard in a conversation or talk and what is seen in a graphic
• New question types testing a speaker’s implied meaning in the context of a conversation or talk