The limitations of British immigration

Regardless of TOEFL or IELTS, the basic inspection content consists of four parts: "listening, reading, writing and speaking". At the same time, because the two tests have their own characteristics, they are different in these four aspects. The following differences can not only help us choose the one that is more suitable for us in IELTS and TOEFL, but also give us an insight into the purpose and focus of the two exams.

Inspection mode:

TOEFL is a marathon and IELTS is a relay race.

The new TOEFL adopts online test, and the whole test is like a 4-hour marathon. I can complete all the tests at once, listening, speaking, reading and writing without interruption. If there is something wrong with the examination room equipment, it will sometimes be extended to 6 hours, which will pose great challenges to the candidates' physiology and psychology. When I took the TOEFL oral test, one after another in the classroom was a description of the city where I lived, and the examination room suddenly became a busy and noisy vegetable market. The sound of writing on the keyboard is also quite annoying to sensitive candidates. If you add some candidates who speak spoken English next to you, it will basically drive you crazy.

The IELTS speaking test is conducted separately from the other three written tests. The written test lasts for 2 hours and 45 minutes. Candidates can choose any day one week before the written test or one week after the written test. This arrangement is very user-friendly, which avoids the fatigue caused by long-term exams to a certain extent, and also makes candidates more fully prepared for oral content.

Question type setting:

TOEFL is informal and IELTS is rigorous and orderly.

IELTS can do the questions while listening. Basically, arrange the questions according to the recording order, and give time to look at the questions in advance. From the stem of the questions, you can roughly guess what you will hear, where to travel, or what projects to do. When you listen, you have a good idea to reduce the pressure in the examination room. TOEFL adopts computer test, and the questions will appear after the whole listening, but there is a time limit. Just click Next to enter the next question, and the answer to the previous question cannot be modified by default, which is quite exciting.

The British are introverted and earnest, while the Americans are careless, direct, enthusiastic and informal. This personality characteristic is also obvious in IELTS and TOEFL. IELTS reading is easier to improve scores by skills. Although there are more than ten kinds of questions, they are basically "synonym substitution", so you need to master reading methods, such as parallel reading. TOEFL has read many scientific articles, some of which are social science articles. Apart from the last question, the biggest difficulty of scientific articles is that they can't understand what to say, or that this thing is too far away from our daily life. What are you talking about?

Oral examination:

TOEFL is a radio hotline, IELTS face-to-face interview.

IELTS speaking is a one-on-one face-to-face communication with examiners, simulating real conversations with crooked nuts. Bian Xiao once met a black examiner in an exam. When asked what kind of music he likes, he talked about rock music without thinking. When I heard rock and roll, my eyes lit up, and the conversation behind me became smoother and more enjoyable. Different from TOEFL computer test, there is more room for communication, and gestures and expressions help to communicate smoothly and appear more flexible.

TOEFL speaking test is more like the examinee calling the hotline provided by the examiner. If you say "forgive" to your black brother in the computer exam, the result will be tragic. In the TOEFL test center, although every test center has a sound barrier, there will still be interaction between candidates.

Listening test:

TOEFL Advanced Encyclopedia, IELTS Practical Survival Manual

As the saying goes, "Those who can listen will take the TOEFL". If you are a crazy lover of English listening, please promise me to take the TOEFL, and you will be happy. Must be stupid! Crazy! Both are indispensable. The lecture part of TOEFL listening really made many people stutter for a long time. Lecture is equivalent to the teaching content of the classroom teacher. Candidates need to summarize and refine the main points of information and judge the organization and arrangement of information. Now there are fewer lectures (silence) within 5 minutes.

I don't understand, shorthand is not good, that's basically the same as TOEFL listening byebye. TOEFL listening words take the "minority" route! Minorities make people often think about this problem when they are young. "Will I use algebraic geometry to buy food in the future?" Write down the constellation vocabulary of these non-nine planets, and the landforms that are rarely heard and rarely heard in the future. What were you doing during the interglacial period? Pick up hot chicks?

IELTS listening test is obviously more life-oriented, such as asking for directions, making phone calls, remembering phone numbers, names and addresses, enrolling students, choosing courses and renting houses. Candidates should pay attention to details and don't summarize organizational information by themselves. IELTS test questions are closer to testing whether students have basic survival ability. TOEFL is obviously to test whether students can understand academic lectures, and the difficulty is naturally one order of magnitude greater than IELTS listening.

Can I only take TOEFL in America?

Your concept may be a bit backward.

As a stepping stone to the application institutions, the recognition of TOEFL and IELTS covers almost the whole world. Especially in recent years, IELTS has attacked American universities on a large scale, and more than 3,000 universities have recognized IELTS scores. American news and television. Among the top 200 universities in the United States published by the World Report, 95% of undergraduate courses and 99% of graduate courses accept IELTS scores. Now, in addition to the classic package TOEFL+SAT/GRE, there is also SAT+ IELTS /GRE+ IELTS to take you to the United States and take you to fly.

On the other hand, since it is an exam, what everyone is most concerned about is of course the final result-the exam results. According to the research report published by ETS, TOEFL scores are linked to IETS scores: a research paper, the deviation of TOEFL scores is greater than IELTS.

Explained by human feelings, that is to say, candidates who take TOEFL are more unstable than those who take IELTS, and their scores will fluctuate more. Of course, this is related to the wide range of TOEFL scores. The TOEFL score is 120, while the IELTS score is 9, which means that a normal IELTS score will correspond to multiple TOEFL scores. It is precisely because of this that ETS official website also gives a comparison scale for the correspondence between TOEFL and IELTS in university admission requirements:

According to the data of this ruler, IELTS 6.5 corresponds to TOEFL 79-93. In other words, as a small partner with TOEFL scores of 79 and 93, the roast duck with IELTS score of 6.5 should be at the same level. However, when applying for colleges and universities, grades are not the same thing, and the minimum entrance requirement for graduate students in the United States is generally IELTS 6.5, and the TOEFL is hovering between 80 and 90, so the buddies with 79 TOEFL scores can only say sorry without mercy ... No way, who makes the reality always so skinny.

It is another story when we compare the score requirements of specific majors in various institutions with reference to the comparison table. You will find that the scores of most colleges and universities are so confusing that people question the authenticity of the form. For example, the TOEFL score of the Music School of the University of Michigan, ann arbor is 92, while the IELTS score is only 6.0. The IELTS score of the School of Public Health is 6.5, and the TOEFL score is 100. This is naked inequality.

Another example is that tulane university IELTS requires a score of 6.5, but TOEFL needs to reach 100. Moreover, most of the China students who apply for this university are around 105, so the competition pressure is great. There are also some wonderful institutions that only accept IELTS scores, such as comparative media research, calculation and optimization design, materials science and engineering, media art and science at MIT. Similarly, you will find that some institutions like Northeastern University require the IELTS score of 7.5 in law school, while the TOEFL score is only 100.

Therefore, radish and cabbage have their own love. It is important to know the requirements and preferences of colleges and universities. What we should do more is to choose the exam that suits us and ensure the best performance. It is common for IELTS to score 6 in the first naked test, and it is also common for TOEFL to score 60 in the first test. It's a long way to get points. After the TOEFL score of 65,438+000, the scores are all personality problems.

Preparing for the language test itself is to let yourself grow up in a non-native language, improve your language ability, practice it skillfully, and make yourself better on the road of studying abroad and emigrating. There are two kinds of IELTS: Class A and Class G. Class A IELTS scores can be used for studying abroad and Class G IELTS scores can be used for applying for immigration. Class a and class g have different difficulties, which is understandable. What immigrants need is the basic English ability to survive in the social environment, so it is naturally easier to use academic content. If it is purely for the purpose of immigration, no matter where you go, you don't need to waste time cramming for the academically difficult study abroad exams such as TOEFL and IELTS. Ieltsg does not save time and trouble.

"The true meaning of language is communication, and the unused language loses its original intention." This statement sounds like standing on the commanding heights and bossing around candidates who are trying to prepare for the exam. Except for a great god with a vocabulary of 2W, most candidates will put the exam on the balance of interests. You and I are just ordinary candidates, simply trying to get a good grade. Thinking about TOEFL and Kaoya is not a result, but more a process and a way. Choose the way that suits you and give yourself more choices in your future life, so that when the opportunity comes, you won't face the deep embarrassment of being stretched …