TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

If you are aspiring for admission into a university in the USA, you must take TOEFL, a simple test on English Language, Reading Comprehension and Listening Comprehension.

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TOEFL is an acronym for 'Test of English as a Foreign Language'. The essential objective of the test is to ascertain the level of proficiency in English of anyone seeking admission to the undergraduate or graduate Institutions in the United States.

The Educational Testing Services (ETS) administers the test under the general direction of a Policy Council that was established by, and is affiliated to the College Board and the Graduate Record Examinations Board in the USA. But it is not merely Colleges and Universities in the USA that are interested in TOEFL scores but also their counterparts in other English-speaking countries like Canada. In fact, an acceptable high score in TOEFL is a precondition for most of them even to consider an application for admission.

Most admission committees rely heavily on TOEFL for just one reason: to decide whether a candidate, once admitted, will have an adequate knowledge of English for successfully pursuing his/her studies. He/she may be an accomplished scholar in his/her own right or a potential scholar in a chosen field but if English as a medium of instruction cannot be comprehended, it will prove to be a severe handicap.

As you aspire to attempt TOEFL, you need to fully understand the test in itself and simultaneously elevate your command of spoken and written English as used by an average English-speaking American.