The full name of TOEIC is "English Test for International Communication", which was developed by ETS at 1979. On June 5438+065438+1 October1June, 2002, the Vocational Skills Appraisal Bureau of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China and Hillman Learning System Company of the United States announced that the Vocational Skills Appraisal Bureau of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China had introduced the TOEIC test as the preferred standard for global vocational English proficiency assessment, and held the TOEIC test in China.
TOEIC is an English proficiency test for people who use English to communicate in an international working environment. Every year, more than 3 million people from more than 60 countries take the TOEIC test, and more than 5,000 international companies or institutions around the world recognize and use the TOEIC test results. TOEIC test can make a fair and objective evaluation of people's ability to communicate in English, so it has become the top professional English proficiency test in the world.
What's on the TOEIC exam?
TOEIC test is a single choice paper-and-pencil test, which lasts for 2 hours and consists of ***200 questions. It is divided into two parts: listening comprehension and reading, which are timed separately. Listening comprehension part *** 100, limited to 45 minutes, brought by card. You will hear all kinds of statements, questions, short dialogues and essays recorded in English, and then answer the questions according to what you hear. * * * There are four types of questions, namely picture questions (20 questions, one of four choices), question and answer questions (30 questions, one of three choices), short dialogues (30 questions, one of four choices) and short essays (20 questions, one of four choices).
Reading part *** 100, with a time limit of 75 minutes. Candidates should answer the questions at their own speed according to the information given. This part includes three types of questions, namely sentence completion (40 questions, one of four choices), error recognition (20 questions, one of four choices) and reading articles (40 questions, one of four choices). Candidates' scores are determined by the number of correctly answered questions, and no points will be deducted for wrong answers. Candidates' listening and reading scores add up to the total score of an exam. The TOEIC exam scored 990.
What's the use of toeic?
The purpose of the toeic exam is to find a job. If you want to work in a foreign company in the future, including local small and medium-sized enterprises, multinational companies and even government departments in various countries, you need to provide toeic scores.
At present, most of the global top 500 enterprises that have entered China adopt TOEIC test to establish an evaluation system for their English communication ability as an internal standard for personnel recruitment, promotion, overseas employment and staff training. For example, IBM, Henkel, Toyota, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Baker, Midea, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, FedEx, Haier and Hisense.
In addition, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and other countries all adopt TOEIC to evaluate the English communication ability of civil servants. And all national universities in Ireland accept toeic scores. The American Professional Licensing Examination Board for Nurses (CGFNS) accepts toeic scores.
How to calculate the score in the TOEIC exam?
Toe test is a norm reference test, and different test scores represent the differences of English communication ability of candidates in their daily work, so there is no difference between passing and failing test scores. Grading listening and reading separately will help candidates to analyze their own language ability and make targeted study plans, and also help institutional users of toeic to clarify the differences in employee abilities. The grade range of each part is 5 to 495, and the total grade range is 10 to 990.
About 65,438+0 months after the examination, ETS will issue the standard ETS/TOEIC score certificate to the candidates, and the vocational skill appraisal agency of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China will issue the China vocational English grade certificate recognized by the government according to the TOEIC test result.
How to register for the TOEIC exam? How much is the registration fee?
There are many options for toeic specific registration. See www.toeictest.com.cn for details.
According to ETS notice, the standard price of TOEIC test in China market is 75 US dollars, and the examination fee is charged in RMB. According to the exchange rate of USD against RMB 8.3 yuan, the examination fee is RMB 623.
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