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An updated edition of the “Official Guide to the TOEFL iBT Test” is now available!  It matches the updated TOEFL format. The book appears to be almost identical to the “pocket edition” that ETS has been selling for a few months, except it has two practice tests instead of one.  The first practice test is […]

The Harvard Kennedy School now requires all students who are obligated to submit an English test score (TOEFL, IELTS or Cambridge C1/C2) to also record and submit a “video essay.” But don’t be misled by the term “video essay.”  It isn’t really that at all.  Rather, applicants are given a question like “what is your […]

Michigan Language Assessment is “indefinitely pausing” remote administrations of the Michigan English Test (MET). The final remote administrations happened on September 28.  I took the MET remotely back in December of 2024.  Here’s what I wrote at the time: “The pre-test process was smooth. Proctoring is handled by Prometric, and they are pretty good at […]

At the end of August, the IELTS Official website was updated to reflect that the IELTS test is accepted by 13,500+ institutions.  This update confirmed that IELTS was the most widely accepted English test in the world… just ahead of TOEFL (then accepted at 13,000+ institutions). But I’m happy to report that last week the […]

I spent much of the past month working on exciting TOEFL stuff with our friends over at Prepex.  The reading section’s “Complete the Words” task occupied quite a lot of that time. My goal here is to ensure that the practice items provided at Prepex are as close to the real thing as possible.  Here’s […]