Test Preparation and Skill Building Tools

ETS offers a wide range of test preparation resources such as sample questions, practice tests, interactive skill-building programs and detailed tips and information about the tests.

There are many different learning tools that ETS provides to help evaluate and build the English-language skills of students, employees or individuals. These tools help prepare them for the real-life academic or business environments that await them. There are also valuable learning tools that can be integrated into a comprehensive curriculum.

For the TOEFL® Test

TOEFL® Test Preparation >
These test preparation materials allow individuals to become familiar with the computer-based and paper-based formats of the TOEFL test and help gauge their readiness to take it.

TOEFL® Practice Online >
The only official practice test that provides the real-life experience of taking the real TOEFL iBT® test.

The Official Guide to the TOEFL® Test, Third Edition >
Newly updated, this bestselling guide provides a comprehensive all-in-one reference to the TOEFL test with skill-building tips plus two full-length tests. The guide is available in paper book or eBook formats.

NorthStar: Building Skills for the TOEFL iBT Test
This curriculum development tool offers instructor manuals, authentic practice sets and helpful tips for students.

Lexile® Measures

This easy-to-use, free service matches a test-taker's TOEFL Reading Section score with a Lexile® measure from MetaMetrics®. A Lexile measure puts reading ability and the text difficulty of reading materials on the same scale to help students find materials at their reading level. To learn more, visit www.lexile.com/toefl.

Now available — Lexile measures for the TOEFL® Junior™ test. To learn more, visit www.lexile.com/toefljunior.

For the TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test

Tactics for TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
A book and CD-ROM created by ETS and Oxford University Press, Tactics for TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test, helps test takers develop the language and test-taking skills they need to succeed on the test.

For the TOEIC® Speaking and Writing Tests

Tactics for TOEIC® Speaking and Writing Tests
Tactics is a new test preparation book authorized by ETS that can help you develop the test-taking and linguistic skills you will need to do well on the Speaking and Writing tests.

TOEIC® Speaking & Writing Online Preparation Tool
Provides a realistic TOEIC Speaking & Writing test experience with instant scoring and immediate feedback.

For more information on any of the TOEIC test preparation products available, contact your local ETS Preferred Network office.

General Skill Building Tools

Edusoft
Specializing in turnkey Blended Learning solutions and large-scale Distance Learning projects based on cutting-edge, interactive technology and field-proven pedagogical approaches, Edusoft offers engaging General English courses that foster all language skills, as well as Business English courses, Academic Reading courses and customized Teacher Training.

Criterion® Online Writing Evaluation
Evaluate a student's writing skills and receive instant score reporting and diagnostic feedback to help them improve.

ETS English Skills Series, powered by AmEnglish.com®

In addition to providing test-preparation products, ETS offers the English Skills Series, which helps nonnative English speakers improve their communication skills.

Idioms in English Volume One and Volume Two are web-based, interactive programs that help English language learners improve listening comprehension, vocabulary and speech.

Pronunciation in English is a web-based, interactive program that helps English-language learners with all elements of pronunciation, including stress, intonation and rhythm. It is now available in two levels — High Beginning+ and Intermediate+.

Writing in English is a web-based, interactive program that helps English-language learners write clear, concise and correct English. It is now available in two levels — High Beginning+ and Intermediate+.

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