Can Australian immigrants use TOEFL now?

Students need to submit their language scores when applying for graduate students in Australia, so can they go to Australia to take the TOEFL? Can I go to Australia to study TOEFL?

IELTS is an international English language test jointly launched by Cambridge University Examinations Committee, Australian Agency for International Education and Development and British Council. The sponsor of TOEFL is educational testing service (ETS), an established educational service institution with a history of over 65,438+000 years in the United States. IELTS and TOEFL belong to two different test systems: Commonwealth test system and North American test system.

The Australian Minister of Immigration announced that TOFEL, CAE and Pearson had been recognized as English proficiency tests by the Australian Immigration Bureau together with IELTS when applying for an Australian student visa. According to the global TOEFL analysis, compared with the situation that TOEFL scores were not recognized by Australian authorities before, students with TOEFL scores are more convenient in admission and visa application, and they also have more choices when applying for schools.

With the TOEFL being recognized by the Australian Immigration Bureau, students can complete all the steps from applying for admission to applying for a visa with TOEFL scores. Such preferential measures are rare in mainstream English-speaking countries. Previously, only IELTS was the English proficiency test officially recognized by the Australian Immigration Bureau. All students applying for an Australian student visa must submit IELTS scores, even if they have passed the TOEFL score or have received an admission notice from an Australian university.

For students who are interested in studying in Australia, the new policy will undoubtedly make studying in Australia more convenient. Students have more ways to prove their English ability to visa officers, instead of just providing IELTS scores as before.

Going to Australia to study IELTS or TOEFL?

1. Look at the degree of recognition of specific institutions: "The implementation of mutual recognition from the national level to the mutual recognition between institutions is not a one-off event. This requires a process. Students must first find out which language test results they intend to enroll in. "

2. According to the choice of study destination: If students plan to study in countries with Commonwealth education system, it is recommended to apply for IELTS; If you are studying in a North American system country, it is recommended to apply for TOEFL. If a student plans to attend high school in Australia and then go to an American university for undergraduate (or graduate) studies, with the goal of getting a scholarship or applying for a prestigious American university with a higher ranking, then he can better cope by taking the TOEFL test and preparing for future SAT, GRE, GMAT and other exams in the same system.

3. TOEFL test for candidates who are adapted to the "computer test" and have strong listening ability: In addition to the above two principles, from the perspective of test adaptability, because IELTS is a "personal test" and TOEFL is a "computer test", the test environments of the two types of tests are completely different. Therefore, candidates can choose IELTS if they are more accustomed to facing the examiner's exam, and TOEFL if they are more accustomed to facing the computer (computer) exam. In addition, TOEFL has higher requirements for candidates' English listening, and it is a computer test. Not only listening, but also speaking and writing need "listening" questions. Therefore, students with poor English listening will be at a disadvantage in the TOEFL test, which also needs to be considered.