The Educational Testing Service (ETS) has published a few charts illustrating how the new 1-6 TOEFL scoring scale will work and how to convert between old (1-120) TOEFL scores and new (1-6) TOEFL scores. As illustrated below, the scale will increase at increments of 0.5. It has been confirmed that the overall band score will be calculated by averaging the four section scores and rounding to the nearest 0.5.
Notably, ETS has also confirmed that the current 0-120 scale will be eliminated entirely starting in 2028.
A pleasant feature of the new scale is that it will provide more consistency when linking section scores to the CEFR. Currently that is somewhat confusing. For instance, a score of 22 in the TOEFL listening section represents C1 fluency, while a score of 22 in the reading section represents only B2 fluency. Come January, this will no longer be an issue.
