TOEFL iBT · full test
TOEFL iBT listening practice set 3
Forty-seven practice items in the four task types of the updated TOEFL iBT Listening section: Listen and Choose a Response (19 short remarks), Listen to a Conversation (five conversations on campus), Listen to an Announcement (three announcements) and Listen to an Academic Talk (three talks, on how children learn new words, cover crops and the railroad origins of time zones). This is the third of the four listening sets, harder than sets 1 and 2: many prompts use idioms, hints and indirect requests, and more questions ask what a speaker implies. The real section also has about 47 items, and each recording is played only once, so listen once and take notes. This set uses American voices; the real test can also use British, Australian and New Zealand accents. It is untimed; the real Listening section is timed and adaptive, so the questions you meet depend on how you answer earlier ones, and it is reported on a 1 to 6 scale.
Exam mode: timed, answers at the end, like the real test. Practice mode: untimed, the answer and explanation after each question.
What is in this test
Covers: listen and choose a response (19) · listen to an academic talk (12) · listen to a conversation (10) · listen to an announcement (6)
A sample question
What is the main difference between the two editions?
- The chapters are in a different order.
- The new edition has fewer chapters.
- The problems at the end of each chapter were changed.
- The new edition comes with online videos.
Marked when you take the test; the explanation appears in your review.