What to expect
In this section, you are given a text on screen. You get 40 seconds to read through the text and understand the content before the time starts. You then have another 40 seconds to read aloud as naturally and clearly as possible.
You can expect around 7 texts for this section. Each text will usually be a single paragraph between 50-65 words.
How you are scored
Content: Each replacement, omission or insertion of a word counts as one error
Maximum score depends on the length of the item prompt
Pronunciation: 5 Native-like 4 Advanced 3 Good 2 Intermediate 1 Intrusive 0 Non-English
Oral fluency: 5 Native-like 4 Advanced 3 Good 2 Intermediate 1 Limited, 0 Disfluent
- The problem begins with the alphabet itself. Building a spelling system for English…
- Welfare has a special political meaning to the United States because it refers to how…
- Another administration option is to bake marijuana at a relatively low temperature…
- A smoking ban is a public policy that includes criminal laws and health regulations…
- As far as politics go, the responses are just as varied….
- In the photo, the wild cat’s huge paws are clamped onto the side of the white safari Jeep…
- The Office of Personnel Management was the target of the attack…
- Modern buildings have to achieve certain performance requirements…
- Who do you think is the most glamorous person?
- The insults and criticism were not unexpected…
- Domestication is an evolutionary, rather than a political, development…
- Akimbo, this must be one of the odder-looking words in the language…
- Global warming is defined as an increase in the average…
- The numbers on US student debt, after all, are truly staggering…
- This finding is understandable in certain cases….