Calculate your TOEFL Overall Score by entering your section scores in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking.
TOEFL is a standardised test designed to check the student's ability to understand English. TOEFL stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language. The test is conducted by Educational Testing Service (ETS). The test helps the students to improve their English writing, speaking, reading and listening skills to study and stay in an English-speaking country. TOEFL is accepted in various English-speaking countries, especially in the USA. Other than the USA, other countries accept TOEFL to measure one's English language proficiency, such as Canada, Ireland, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, etc. The TOEFL test is of 2 types: (a) Internet-based and (b) Pen-paper based. In today's era, Internet-based test is most commonly used by students to check and show their ability. The test is divided into four modules:
| Organisation | ETS (USA based) |
|---|---|
| Test Format | Internet-based |
| Accepted By | 13,000+ Universities |
| Duration | 2 Hours |
| Validity | 2 Years |
| Result | 4-5 days |
| Passport Required | Yes |
Till Jan 2026, the Score Range of the TOEFL iBT Exam is 0-120, with four sections with each of which has a maximum score of 30. Most Universities provide admissions based on the Overall Score, with some selected universities that have specific requirements based on section scores also. To calculate the Overall Score from section scores, you have to sum all four section scores.
Overall Score = Listening Score + Reading Score + Speaking Score + Writing Score
Update: Starting Jan 2026, the TOEFL iBT Score Format is changing from 0-120 to 1-6. The new Scoring Format will be easier to compare with the Worldwide Standards and more inclined towards the CEFR framework.
| Modules | Score Range |
|---|---|
| Reading | 0 - 30 |
| Writing | 0 - 30 |
| Listening | 0 - 30 |
| Speaking | 0 - 30 |
| Overall | 0 - 120 |
The reading section has 20 questions, and students have to answer these questions in 35 minutes. The section has two long passages with ten questions in each passage. The difficulty level of the vocabulary in the reading section differs from authentic American news sources because TOEFL aims at an academic approach.
Unlike listening, reading also has raw scores converted into scale scores. Scale scores are the final scores. Students' Language Proficiency level depends on the scale score. Let's understand every level thoroughly with the help of a table.
| Scale Score | Level |
|---|---|
| 24-30 | Advanced |
| 18-23 | High-Intermediate |
| 4-17 | Low-Intermediate |
| 0-3 | Below Low-Intermediate |
The section has a total of 28 questions and 36 minutes to answer the questions. The difficulty level of the section increases with each question. Scoring of TOEFL listening is done by converting raw scores into scaled scores. And each raw score carries one point, whereas 28 raw scores equals 30 scaled scores. The formula that converts raw scores into scale scores is
Scale scores = Raw scores / 28 * 30
Let's try an example. Let us assume a student got 28 raw scores by answering all the questions correctly. According to the formula mentioned above, his scaled scores will be:
Raw score / 28* 30, So, his Scale scores are 30.
Students' performance level is decided based on the scale score range. Let's understand the level of the performance with the help of a table
| Scale Score | Level |
|---|---|
| 22-30 | Advanced |
| 17-21 | High-Intermediate |
| 9-16 | Low-Intermediate |
| 0-8 | Below Low-Intermediate |
| Raw Score | Scale Score | Raw Score | Scale Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 30 | 27 | 29-30 |
| 26 | 27-30 | 25 | 25-30 |
| 24 | 24-29 | 23 | 23-27 |
| 22 | 22-26 | 21 | 21-25 |
| 20 | 19-24 | 19 | 18-23 |
| 18 | 17-21 | 17 | 16-20 |
| 16 | 14-19 | 15 | 13-18 |
| 14 | 12-17 | 13 | 10-15 |
| 12 | 9-14 | 11 | 7-13 |
| 10 | 6-12 | 9 | 5-10 |
| 8 | 3-9 | 7 | 2-7 |
| 6 | 1-6 | 5 | 1-4 |
| 4 | 0-2 | 3 | 0-1 |
| 2 | 0 | 1 | - |
The writing section has two tasks, namely:
Students get 29 minutes to solve both of these tasks. Task 1, i.e., Integrated writing, gives students 20 minutes, and task 2, i.e., Writing for an Academic Discussion, gives students 10 minutes. Writing sections in TOEFL is often challenging as students must listen and read carefully to frame new ideas in a limited time—raw scores of each task range from 0 to 5. Eventually, the raw scores of both tasks range from 0 to 10. These raw scores are converted into scale scores for the final scores. The writing section is scored based on vocabulary, grammatical usage, task fulfillment, type of content written, etc. Let us see the conversion of raw scores to scale scores in a tabular form:
| Scale Score | Level |
|---|---|
| 24-30 | Advanced |
| 17-23 | High-Intermediate |
| 13-16 | Low-Intermediate |
| 7-12 | Basic |
| 0-6 | Below Basic |
| Raw Scores | Scale Scores | Raw Scores | Scale Scores |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 30 | 9.5 | 29 |
| 9 | 28 | 8.5 | 27 |
| 8 | 25 | 7.5 | 24 |
| 7 | 22 | 6.5 | 21 |
| 6 | 20 | 5.5 | 18 |
| 5 | 17 | 4.5 | 15 |
| 4 | 14 | 3.5 | 12 |
| 3 | 11 | 2.5 | 10 |
| 2 | 8 | 1.5 | 7 |
| 1 | 5 | 0.5 | 4 |
In the Speaking section, the student gets four questions, namely:
Every question differs from others, giving students different timings to listen, read and answer. The total time allocated in the speaking section to answer all four questions is 16 minutes. In the Independent Speaking task, students have to give their opinions based on school, work or other parts of their daily life. Whereas under questions 2 to 4, which are integrated speaking tasks, students have to read and listen to the given information in a limited time, and then they must answer the question or summarise what they had read and listened to. Scoring of the speaking section is based on the following:
| Scale Score | Level |
|---|---|
| 25-30 | Advanced |
| 20-24 | High-Intermediate |
| 16-19 | Low-Intermediate |
| 10-15 | Basic |
| 0-9 | Below Basic |
The TOEFL stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language, and IELTS stands for International English Language Testing System. Both are the most popular English proficiency exams for Study Abroad and other Immigration programs in various countries, such as the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, etc.
So, when it comes to comparing TOEFL iBT scores with IELTS, we have to follow the official guide of ETS TOEFL. For example, the TOEFL iBT Overall score of 75 is equivalent to an IELTS Score of 6.0, and an IELTS score of 7.0 is equal to a TOEFL iBT score between 91 and 99.
There are a few instances where organizations have their own set of requirements and set conversion rules. Please verify the required TOEFL Score in the mentioned score range only.
| TOEFL | IELTS |
|---|---|
| 120-116 | 9.0 |
| 115-109 | 8.5 |
| 108-101 | 8.0 |
| 100-107 | 7.5 |
| 91-99 | 7.0 |
| 81-90 | 6.5 |
| 67-80 | 6.0 |
| 51-66 | 5.5 |
| 37-50 | 5.0 |
| 26-36 | 4.5 |
| 14-25 | 4.0 |
The CEFR stands for Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to compare the Proficiency levels across multiple languages. The TOEFL iBT Score is comparable to the CEFR for various purposes. A score of 95 or above is equivalent to the C1 Level, and 114 or above is equivalent to C2. Most Universities require at least a B2 Level for admission purposes, which is comparable to a 72 overall score in the TOEFL iBT Exam.
| CEFR | Reading | Listening | Speaking | Writing | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C2 | 29 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 114 |
| C1 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 24 | 95 |
| B2 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 72 |
| B1 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 42 |
| A2 | >4 | >9 | 10 | >13 | >42 |
Starting in January 2026, the ETS TOEFL has introduced a new Scoring Scale where the current scoring scale of 0-120 will be replaced. The new Scoring Scale will be from 1-6 with increments of 0.5 for simplicity and higher correlation with the CEFR Score. The Universities and concerned authorities have been informed and guided by ETS to update the accepted Scoring range to comply with upcoming changes. Here is the detailed Score Chart based on the new changes being implemented by ETS TOEFL.
| Total (1-6) | Reading | Listening | Writing | Speaking | Est. Total (0–120) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 29-30 | 28-30 | 29-30 | 28-30 | 114+ |
| 5.5 | 27-28 | 26-27 | 27-28 | 27 | 107+ |
| 5 | 24-26 | 22-25 | 24-26 | 25-26 | 95+ |
| 4.5 | 22-23 | 20-21 | 21-23 | 23-24 | 86+ |
| 4 | 18-21 | 17-19 | 17-20 | 20-22 | 72+ |
| 3.5 | 12-17 | 13-16 | 15-16 | 18-19 | 58+ |
| 3 | 6-11 | 9-12 | 13-14 | 16-17 | 44+ |
| 2.5 | 4-5 | 6-8 | 11-12 | 13-15 | 34+ |
| 2 | 3 | 4-5 | 7-10 | 10-12 | 24+ |
| 1.5 | 2 | 2-3 | 3-6 | 5-9 | 12+ |
| 1 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0+ |
