Hello everybody.
Would you like to work for an international company one day?
Or work and live in a foreign country?
Well your business English level will need to be
Intermediate or
better.
Are you curious about your business English lavel?
The TOEIC test is
an excellent way to measure that.
And today we I want to show you a free mini TOEIC.
And this will take you 30 minutes to take and today I'm ...
just going to show you the website.
Where to find the test and some little tips on how to ...
navigate the test and to make a good score.
And at the end of the video you will get a percentage score.
And I will give you a chart that you can
translate this percentage score into a TOEIC score.
So let's get going.
OK here we are on the TestDen.com website.
When you register for this mini test you'll be signed up to to take their
Mini-test challenge.
And they record everybody's score and at the end of the ...
month you can see here some of the percentage scores.
You can possibly win an iPod. So that's fun.
Okay you can see that I've registered.
And I'll start now.
So here we are on the directions for the test.
And they explain it's divided into two parts:
listening test: 25 questions and a reading ...
test: 25 questions.
So after you read the directions,
just continue. So here's the directions for ...
part 1 pictures.
There are six photos.
And as soon as you click "end directions"
that audio is going to start.
So you have 6 photos to look at and
you will see 4 statements that best correspond to the photo.
So after you choose your best answer,
then you'll have four seconds before it moves on to the ...
next. So get ready here we go.
Be careful of all these call-to-actions.
There's a lot of ads
on this website but it's free so that's what we pay for.
Or don't pay for. Okay and "end directions" here we go.
Okay we have finished part 1 with the six photos and here ...
we are on the directions for part 2.
I just wanted to show you one thing.
You can save your test and exit at any time during the ...
mini-test so we "save & exit".
theT're explaining we have 48 hours to come back to the test.
So that will put you on your "practice test center"
and we've got three free test that we can take.
So that is really nice and they'll record all the scores ...
and compare them.
So when you're ready to to go back you you just click "return".
Here we are. We're going to read our directions
for "question and response".
This part of the test is very difficult for some students ...
because you have nothing to read.
You don't have any questions on a paper or nothing.
You just listen. So listen to the statement.
It might be a question. It might be
a negative statement.
And then you will hear three responses and you choose ...
the best one: a b or c.
So as soon as you click "end directions",
that first
statement will begin.
And we have seven statements
to choose a response for.
And here we go.
So here we are in part three "short conversations".
And there will be two short conversations in this in this mini test.
But you will have three questions for every conversation.
So the first conversation will be questions 14, 15 and 16.
And the second conversation will be 17
through 19.
So I suggest to listen carefully to the conversation and try to ...
remember all the details that you can.
Then when the conversation is finished,
they will read the question 14.
And at this time, you can answer it.
They'll also give you I think seven seconds
to answer question 14 before moving on to question 15.
So on the day of the real test, it's not going to be like this.
Your three questions will be visible
on your test sheet. So you can look at your ...
questions in advance while you are listening and it's much ...
easier. So that's one of the ...
disadvantages of this test but it's still very good practice.
So here we go "end directions"
and the first conversation will start immediately.
Here are your question numbers up here.
Okay so we finished part 3 and now we are ready to ...
"proceed" to Part 4 our short talks.
They will be announcements. Perhaps a weather report or ...
an announcement at an airport or at a conference.
So you will have three questions
for each announcement and there are two announcements ...
in this section.
So your question numbering will be Announcement Number 1:
Questions 20 to
22.
And the Announcement Number 2 will be questions 23 to 25.
And the same organization: seven seconds to
answer.
So we click "end directions" and here comes the first announcement.
So here we are in part 5. This is the beginning of the ...
reading section. This is grammar "incomplete sentences".
And you'll have four answer choices.
There are 10 questions here.
Choose your question answer.
And then move along quickly.
Now you do,
when you do all your questions,
you do have an opportunity
to go back and review a question that you have ...
answered already. You don't like it so much.
So you can click "go" and it will take you there.
So that's a nice option this test has organized because ...
on the day of the official test you have the possibility to
flip back and forth between all the pages.
You don't have to do the test in in a precise order.
So that's nice.
We'll have 10 questions. Let's finish up this section.
So we finished up with part 5 incomplete sentences.
We'll go on to our next.
This is text completion so it's still grammar but
the little gap in the sentence is included in a text.
We have our
4 choices, the text.
And you just click through here.
Answer these as quickly as you can.
End of reading section.
So here we are in part 7 this is reading comprehension.
And you'll.. let's go ahead and proceed.
You'll have your text here and your reading comprehension ...
questions here.
This is not such a problem because
you have just one text . So you'll answer and click through.
Here's our second text.
We have one question,
2 questions,
and three
And we have 4 questions on this one.
Be careful once you up here at at the last three or four ...
questions because you'll need to scroll down you have.
two texts.
So that'll be very important. You don't want to miss out on ...
those two texts. You'll answer your question.
and move.
Here we are at the end of the text.
And of course you can always review here.
We've still got eight minutes supposedly.
So you'll see how many minutes you have.
You may have time to review.
So.
It's going to take you.. we didn't make such a very good score.
I didn't answer all the questions so I only got 19%
which is not bad. They want everyone to have ...
this target score of 85%. If you decide to take the other ...
two tests all of this will be organized together and you can compare.
So today supposedly we got 19.
So I'm going to show you how to take your percentage score
and find your TOEIC score.
For example if you had 86% correct total.
We just scoot over to two lines this is our total.
Score 900 that's excellent we're looking for
880 something like that: 85 pecentile.
You can see you're listening score and your reading score.
On the day of the official test, they will be calculated separately.
But when we are speaking about our TOEIC score we're ...
speaking about the total.
Which is listening score plus reading score equals total.
But today on this website for this mini test at TestDen,
they just give us a total score. We don't know what ...
percentage correct we had in listening or what percentage ...
correct we had in the reading. But it's a free test and this is ...
going to be good practice for you.
So I would advise to continue on and take the other two mini tests.
And good luck with that.
So I hope that you will take some time: 30 minutes.
And decide to take this TOEIC mini test.
The link for the "correlation table"
(to find your TOEIC score) is below in the description.
And I wish you all the very best.
Ciao!