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TOEFL iBT® Home Edition

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Step 1: Prepare Your Room

  • Use a private, quiet room.
  • Clear your desk completely.
  • Have a chair and solid work surface.
  • Close all doors.
  • Cover any windows.
Prepare Your Room

Step 2: Setup Your Computer

  • Use one screen only (laptop or desktop).
  • Connect to a power source.
  • Close all programs except the test window.
  • Test your webcam and microphone.
  • Make sure your main door is visible through your camera lens.
  • Laptop: A mouse and web camera are allowed.
  • Desktop: Mouse, keyboard, web camera, external speakers, and microphone are allowed.
Setup Your Computer

Step 3 : Personal Items Check

  • Allowed: Wedding ring, religious headwear (ears visible)
  • Remove: All other jewelry, watches, and accessories
  • If you have any additional phones apart from the one being used for proctoring, turn them off and place them behind you.
  • Do not use headphones or earbuds.

Optional: One whiteboard OR one blank sheet of paper inside a clear sheet protector, an erasable marker, and an eraser/cloth to erase your writing.

Personal Items Check

Step 4: Review Test Rules

  • Stay visible on camera.
  • Keep your hands visible.
  • Stay seated.
  • No talking or reading aloud except during the Speaking section.
  • No taking breaks.
  • No one may enter the room.
Review Test Rules

Step 5 : Room Scan

  • The proctor will guide you through a virtual room scan.
    You will need to show:
    • All the walls and corners of the room.
    • Under your desk and your work surface.
    • Your entire workspace.
  • This ensures test security and fairness for all test takers
Room Scan
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Testing and ensuring the trustworthiness and quality of TOEFL tests

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Providing guidance on how to use test scores to inform classroom teaching and assessment

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Exploring the science behinds the scores, and identifying information that score users need to accurately interpret test results.

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Exploring innovative task design and technology to measure language knowledge and skills.

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Understanding Your Scores

Clearer results, better feedback for you.

Starting in 2026, students will receive overall and section scores on an updated 1- 6 scale, with a more intuitive link to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

This updated scale will more closely align with most students’ prior English learning and assessment journeys, while offering more consistent scoring across sections and simplifying score interpretation for students, teachers, and institutions. 

Over 13,000 universities and institutions in more than 160 countries accept TOEFL scores, and this update makes them even easier to use and trust. 

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Tools built for your classroom.
To support this update, we’re creating official prep and teaching tools that map directly to the updated TOEFL iBT test: 

  • Classroom-friendly practice sets 
  • Task-based speaking and writing activities 
  • New student guides and test walkthroughs 
  • Instructor-focused webinars and guides 

Available now:
New prep resources designed specifically for the updated test.

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