The TOEIC ® Listening and Reading test updates:

What you need to know

For more than 35 years, the TOEIC® Listening and Reading test has set the standard for assessing English-language listening
and reading skills needed in the workplace. Now, ETS is introducing an updated version of the test that reflects the ways peoplecommonly communicate in everyday social and workplace situations around the world today.
Because the use of English continually evolves and changes, ETS periodically revisits the TOEIC Listening and Reading test toensure it is in-line with current English language use and measures the skills that test takers need to be an effective part oftoday’s workforce.
How is the TOEIC Listening and Reading test changing?

The updates include communication approaches and methods that have become more common in the last 10 years, such as
text messaging and instant messaging.
The updates also place greater emphasis on connecting information across multiple sources – for example, what is seen ina visual image and what is heard in a related conversation.
The test will now include conversations with multiple participants.
What isn’t changing in the updated version of the TOEIC Listening and Reading test?

You can be confident that the TOEIC Listening and Reading test will continue to be a fair, valid and reliable assessmentof everyday and workplace English. The updated version of the test will:• Remain a multiple-choice assessment with two sections of 100 questions each.
• Have the same overall quality and difficulty.
• Be administered in the same way.
• Have the same score report, with the exception of one additional Listening Ability Measured: understanding a speaker’s
purpose or implied meaning in a phrase or sentence. This provides additional information for test takers
and score users, but does not affect a test taker’s overall score.
Scores will continue to be comparable across test form administrations, so scores for the updated version
can be compared to previous versions of the TOEIC Listening and Reading test.
What do the TOEIC Listening and Reading test updates mean to me?

The updates will benefit both test takers and score users.
• Test takers can demonstrate that they have the relevant communication skills needed in today’s global workplace.
• Score users can continue to be confident that the scores they use in their decision making reflect the range of skills
necessary for success in the workplace.
For more information, please contact your local ETS Preferred Network office,
Pro-Match Personal Profiles, by visiting www.pro-match.com

Details of the TOEIC® Listening and Reading test updates

Listening Section•R educed number of Photograph and Question
Response questions• More than two speakers in some conversations•C onversations that include elisions (e.g., “gonna”
instead of “going to”) and incomplete sentences/fragments (“Yes, in a minute”; “Down the hall”;“Could you?”)Stand-Alone
QuestionsPhotographs: 10 questions

Photographs: 6 questions

Part 2Stand-Alone
Questions

Question-Response:30 questions

Question-Response:
25 questions

Part 3

Set-Based
Questions

Conversations: 30 questions

Conversations: 39 questions• 10 conversations• 13 conversations• 3 questions per conversation• 3 questions per conversation

Talks: 30 questions

Talks: 30 questions• 10 talks• 10 talks• 3 questions per talk• 3 questions per talk

Listening Comprehension:
100 questions

Listening Comprehension:
100 questions

Current Version of the TOEIC®
Listening and Reading Test

Updated Version of the TOEIC®
Listening and Reading Test

Part 4•N ew question types testing the connection of what
is heard in a conversation or talk and what is seen ina graphic

Set-BasedQuestions

 ew question types testing a speaker’s implied•N
meaning in the context of a conversation or talk

Reading Section•R educed number of Incomplete
Sentence questions• Two new question types testing understandingof the overall organization of passages:º Text Completion questions that ask test takers tochoose which new sentence fits best in the contextof the overall passage

Part 1

Stand-Alone
Questions

Incomplete Sentences:
40 questions

Incomplete Sentences:
30 questions

Part 2Stand-Alone
Questions

Text Completion:
12 questions

Text Completion:
16 questions

Part 3

Set-Based
QuestionsSingle Passage:
28 questions

Single Passage:
29 questions• 9 single passages•10 single passages• 2–5 questions per passage• 2–4 questions per passage

Double Passages:
20 questions

Multiple Passages:
25 questions• 4 double passages• 2 Set-Based double passages• 5 questions per set• 3 Set-Based triplepassagesº Set-based questions that ask test takers tounderstand where in the passage asentence belongs• Text messages, instant messages and/or online
chat conversations with multiple writers•Q uestions testing the understanding of three
related texts

Updated Version of the TOEIC®
Listening and Reading Test

Part 1• Increased number of Conversation questions•C onversations that include shorter turns andmore exchanges

Current Version of the TOEIC®
Listening and Reading Test

Part 4Set-BasedQuestions•A small increase in the number of singleand multiple-passage questions
 ew questions about understanding the•Nwriter’s words in context• 5 questions per set
Listening Comprehension:
100 questions

Listening Comprehension:
100 questions

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