TOEFL iBT Listening Overview - Oxford Preparation Course for the
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TOEFL iBT Listening Overview
Section
Listening
Content
Time
Score
4─6 lectures
(5 minutes)
6 questions
each
60─90 minutes
(in total)
/30
2─3
conversations
(3 minutes)
5 questions
each
35 seconds to
answer each
question
2. Language Level
• More informal language than in Reading section
based on speech samples from North American colleges and
universities
• Easier than Reading section
lectures: 8th grade difficulty level
conversations: 4th or 5th grade difficulty level
• Lectures
more difficult than conversations because of academic
content
3. Types of Listening Passages
• Lectures
professor speaks all or most of the time
• Classroom discussions
professor and students discuss an academic topic
• Conversations
office hours with a student visit to a professor
service encounters with support staff
• Taking notes is allowed and encouraged.
4. Lecture Visuals
• Screen with course name
• Context visual: professor in class
with students
• Types of graphic screens
content image: explains content
with photograph or illustration
blackboard image with key
terminology
5. Conversation Visuals
• Context visual sets the scene.
• Visual appears when narrator introduces the
conversation.
6. Question Sets
• Each set
two lectures and one conversation
each set of passages has 17 questions
• Time
10 minutes to answer 17 questions
• Lecture questions are more difficult than conversation
questions.
four minutes for questions on each lecture and two minutes
for the conversation questions
• Question order usually follows order of information in
passage.
7. Listening Toolbar
• NEXT to see the next question.
• OK to confirm the answer.
After clicking OK, you cannot change your answer.
• VOLUME to increase or decrease volume.
8. Multiple Choice Questions
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Most have four choices and one correct answer
Gist: purpose for a conversation
Inference: draw conclusion from stated facts
Detail: main supporting details
may have two or three correct answers
if two correct answers, then four answer choices; if three
correct answers, then five answer choices.
• Organization: underlying organization of lecture or
relationships between two parts
9. Connecting Content Questions
• Drag and drop answer choices to the correct category.
• Place checkmarks in the correct boxes.
10. Replay Questions
• Attitude
ask about speaker’s feelings,
opinion, or certainty
• Function
ask about meaning behind
speaker’s words
• Include headphone icon
Listen again to portion of lecture
or conversation.
11. Common Distractors
• Common distractors (incorrect answers) in the
Listening section:
repeat words and phrases from passage, but incorrectly
answer the question
contain similar sounding words
do not answer the question
are not mentioned in the passage
contradict passage
• Gist Questions
Incorrect answers may be too broad or too narrow.
12. Helpful Tips
• Correct answers are usually restatements of
information from the listening passage.
• Guess if you’re unsure of an answer
Eliminate the definitely wrong answers.
Choose the answer that is most consistent with the main
idea.
13. More Helpful Tips
• Work quickly.
You only have 35 seconds to answer each question.
Maintain a balance between speed and accuracy.
• If time is running out,
guess the answers to the remaining questions.
• You do not lose points for incorrect answers.