There is now an ETS page about the new TOEFL Essentials test.
As I mentioned yesterday, this is a new test that ETS will offer beginning in August. The details we learned then were:
- It will take 90 minutes to complete
- It will cost about half of what the TOEFL iBT costs
- It will cover academic as well as “conversational” English
- It has “more tasks, but they are shorter”
We can now confirm:
- It is adaptive (the questions change depending on the ability level of the test-taker)
- It includes “Vocabulary Knowledge and Sentence Construction” (this sounds a bit like the TOEFL ITP)
- It includes an unscored video statement at the end (like the Duolingo English Test)
- The questions are written by humans, not auto-generated by software
- It is scored by both humans and automatic raters (like the TOEFL iBT)
- Unlimited score reports can be sent for free (yay!)
- It includes MyBest Scores and instant reading and listening scores (like the TOEFL iBT)
- Section scores will be from 1 to 12 points
- It will be taken online, not at a test center
- Registration starts in May (for tests in August)
- Test Prep materials are forthcoming