MS IN US: TOEFL And IELTS

Hello friends

Welcome back to the blog.

Sorry, due to some problems I had left out on my topic of another exams i.e. TOEFL and IELTS.

TOEFL and IELTS are both same type of exams, having fairly a minute amount of difference among them. So, in this blog I will discuss in brief about these two exams.

TOEFL
This is an English proficiency exam which every university of USA demands from each candidate so as to know how proficient the student is for communicating abroad.

The exam is divided into four sections

1.       READING
2.       WRITING
3.       LISTENING
4.       SPEAKING

Reading sections consist of 3 paragraphs each different level of difficulty.

Writing section consist of two topics in which the first one will be a small issue (100-150 words) and second one will be a long one (250-300 words).

Listening section will be the most important section of all and you have to listen to the audio very very carefully, because there is a single audio tape, which is played only once. If the candidate fails to miss out on anything then don’t waste time on it and move on to another part because here thinking never helps anyone but being alert does.

Speaking section is a very simple section in which you have to speak to very simple and basics questions for a roundabout of 20 minutes. Here, there is small part of speaking of 2 minutes in which majority of students fail to speak. It’s mainly because people think it’s very easy and become overconfident about them. So my advice to everyone is that “Have a practice of speaking regularly with fellow people at least from one week prior to examination”.

The whole exam consists of 120 marks and each section consists of 30 marks each. The duration of the exam is around 4 hours and its completely a computerized exam.

Minimum marks each candidate must target – 80 +

IELTS
This exam is same as TOEFL, having little or almost no difference. The only difference being that this exam is paper based, contrary to TOEFL which is computed based.

The whole exam divided into bands of (0-9) and the individual section also being divided in (0-9) band. The average of individual bands is taken into account to calculate your total band out of 9. The band of 9 is equivalent to 120 marks of TOEFL. Minimum marks each candidate must target
6.5 (as most university demand this score) and individual band score above 6.

WHICH ONE TO GIVE AND WHY?

Candidates who are willing to pursue their career in USA can go for either of the exam, as universities there accept both of them.

BUT

Candidates, who are willing to pursue their carrier in GERMANY, must (compulsorily) / should give IELTS exam because they do not accept or recognize TOEFL exam. So IELTS has an upper hand for those candidates who want to pursue their dreams to multiple countries and not restricting them to USA.

Note – Getting (110 +/ 115 +) in TOEFL or getting (7/8) band in IELTS does not give you any upper hand in getting top universities (keep this always in your mind). This exam is just a simple proficiency test nothing else but don’t take it too lightly as it may create visa problems if your score is too low.

Hope I have sorted out most of d things here.

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