TOEIC INTERNATIONAL PREPARATION

A. ABOUT TOEIC
TOEIC® stands for Test of English for International Communication. It measures your ability to use
English in daily business situations such as corporate development, finance and budgeting, corporate
property, IT, manufacturing, purchasing, offices, personnel, technical matters, health and business
travel. Thus, the scores show how well you communicate with others in business, commerce, and
industry.

There are 2 parts of the test:

Part 1: Listening Test (45 min, 100 questions):

1. Photograph : 10 questions
2. Question-Response : 30 questions
3. Short Conversation : 30 questions (10 conversations with 3
questions each)
4. Short Talks : 30 questions (10 talks with 3 questions each)
Part 2: Reading Test (75 min, 100 questions):
1. Incomplete Sentences : 40 questions
2. Text Completion and Error : 12 questions
Recognition
3. Reading Comprehension :
Single Passage 28 Questions
Double Passage 20 Questions

B. GENERAL STRATEGIES
In order to do the test well, you need to know the strategies as follows:
1. Plan your time carefully.
Doing TOEIC ® test needs careful time management since there is a time limit for each test.
Therefore, you need to work as fast as you can. Do not get stuck into a question that you forget to
move on to the following questions. Do the easiest questions first and go back to do the harder ones,
if you still do not know the best answer of each, you are encouraged to predict or guess the answer.
2. Do not leave any questions unanswered.
In this test, you are suggested to answer all the questions because you will not get a score reduction
or penalty if you choose a wrong answer.
3. Do not spend too much time on the instructions for each part of the test.
You must be familiar with the test in the hope that you will understand the instructions.
4. Use the order of the questions as a guide.
Mostly the answers in the reading and listening test are usually arranged in the same order as the
questions. For example, the answer for the first question is found in the first paragraph of the text,
then the answer for the second is usually found after the first, and so on.

C. LISTENING STRATEGIES
To do the listening part, the general suggested strategies are as follows:
1. Answer the questions as soon as possible.
Mark the answers as quickly as you can (on the answer sheet) and begin to focus to the next
questions.
2. Prepare for the next questions
Preview the pictures or the answer choices before each question is played. Try to predict as much
as you can about what you are going to hear.
D. READING STRATEGIES
To do the listening part, the general suggested strategies are as follows:
1. Check the time regularly to make sure you are not running out of time.
2. Read the questions first, then find the answer on the text.
3. Answer the easiest questions first, then go back to answer the rest.

E. SELF STUDY
You can go to this website http://yourenglishtest.com/login to practice doing the test by yourself.
Then, do the following steps:
1. Click “Register the First Time” to sign in.

2. Choose “FREE TOEIC® Online Practice test -single user” and fill in the form, and click “Create an
account”.
3. Activate your account on your registered email (the notification to activate is sent to your email, but
you need to wait for about 30 minutes).
4. Login using your email and password you created.
5. Choose “Available Tests” and do the available test.