Comparison of Difficulty and Difference among IELTS, TOEFL and gre

GRE, the full name of Graduate Record Examination, is called American Graduate Entrance Examination in Chinese, which is applicable to all majors except law and business, and sponsored by educational testing service (ETS).

IELTS is the abbreviation of English International Language Testing System, which is also the abbreviation of "International English Testing System". It is jointly organized by Cambridge University Examinations Committee, British Council and Australian Agency for International Development. IELTS mainly evaluates candidates' language ability to study, train or immigrate to English-speaking countries by using English as a tool.

TOEFL (English as a Foreign Language Test) is an English proficiency test organized by educational testing service for students from non-English-speaking countries who apply to go to universities or graduate schools in the United States or Canada.

Educational testing service began to take charge of the examination from 1965.

2. Different applicable objects

GRE: Graduate students who go to the United States need to take GRE besides studying business, Medicaid and JuisDocto.

In addition to universities in most countries such as the United States and Canada, T0EFL achievements have also been recognized in Europe (such as Britain), Oceania (such as Australia and New Zealand) and some countries and regions in Southeast Asia.

In recent years, domestic organizations, foreign companies and joint ventures of the United Nations in China have also adopted T0FFL test scores when recruiting staff, or when the International Fund tests staff's English proficiency.

3. Different exam types

IELTS is divided into two types: academic and training. These two tests consist of four parts: listening, reading, writing and speaking. Among them, academic classes and training classes use the same test questions for listening and speaking, and different test questions for reading and writing.

Structurally speaking, the TOEFL test is divided into four parts: listening, speaking, reading and writing, which comprehensively tests students' listening, reading, writing and speaking English language abilities.

In terms of content, the language content and scenes used in the new TOEFL test come from many real scenes in North American university campuses, covering six categories: education, humanities, business, engineering technology, natural science and social sciences.

There are two kinds of GRE tests, one is general test or aptitude test, and the other is professional test or advanced test. GRE also has a writing test, that is, the writing test (computer test), which is now a compulsory test.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia -gre

Baidu encyclopedia-TOEFL

Baidu encyclopedia-IELTS