About these TOEFL® Writing Samples
Sample TOEFL Integrated Essays
On test day, you’ll first get a TOEFL Integrated Writing Question. You will first read an article, then listen to a lecture, and finally write an essay combining information from both.
Complete Sample Questions and Responses!
- Colonizing Asteroids
- Protecting Peregrine Falcons
- Paradox of Choice
- The Phoenicians
- Bronze Age Collapse
- Quick Decline Syndrome
- Living on the Moon
- Machu Picchu
- REM Sleep (new)
- The Cave of the Hands (new)
- Moai of Easter Island (really old)
Writing for an Academic Discussion Questions
Next, you’ll get a “Writing for an Academic Discussion” question. This will ask you to answer a question that looks like it was posted to a university discussion group. Each link below includes a complete sample question and two possible responses.
- Targeted Advertising
- Social Media
- Grading Students
- Taxing Unhealthy Products
- AI
- Longevity
- University Spending
- Economic Growth vs the Environment
- City Spending
- Corporate Impact
- Work From Home
- Online Classes
- Smart Phones
- Learning Styles
- Influencers
- Starting a Business
- Looking for the free sample questions from ETS? They are no longer available.
More Integrated Essays
These essays are all based on questions from famous books. I can’t give you the reading and listening, but you might enjoy looking at their structure and organization.
- Television Appearances by University Professors (ETS Official)
- Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet (ETS Official)
- Incan Fortress of Sacsayhuaman (casting doubt)
- Iron Fertilization (solution and problem)
- Humpback Whales (casting doubt)
- Going to Mars (Problem and Solution)
- The Usefulness of Coal (casting doubt)
- Monarch Butterflies (casting doubt)
- Large Animals (casting doubt)
- Wheat and Beer (from Princeton Review)
- Forest Fires (from Princeton Review)
- Endotherms (from “ETS Official Collection”)
- Online Encyclopedias (from “ETS Official Collection”)
- Buying a Franchise (from “ETS Official Collection”)
- Great Houses (from “ETS Official Collection”)
- Smart Cars (from “ETS Official Collection”)
- Eco-Friendly Wood (from ETS Website)
- The Chevalier (from “TOEFL Sample Test”)
- Wave Farms (from “Hackers Actual Test”)
- The Anasazi (from “Hackers Actual Test”)
- Trans Lunar Phenomena (from “Hackers Actual Test”)
- Four-day Workweek
TOEFL Writing Guides and Templates
- Complete templates for each essay task.
- A detailed master guide to the integrated essay task.
- A detailed master guide to the independent essay task.