The TOEFL iBT from January 2026 is a shorter, adaptive test on a 1 to 6 scale. ETS still reports a comparable 0 to 120 score until January 2028, because many universities have not rewritten their offers yet. Check which number the university actually uses before you book.
The four sections stay Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking, but the tasks mixed everyday English with academic English. Complete-the-words and listen-and-repeat sit next to an academic passage and an academic discussion. Practising only campus lectures is no longer enough.
The test adapts. A stronger first block leads to a harder second block. That is why two people can leave the room having seen different questions and still be scored on the same 1 to 6 scale. You cannot game it by racing through easy items.
The lessons here follow the 2026 format as published on ets.org. The Library holds official sample material ETS has released for test takers, labelled by section.
What the TOEFL is and who takes it · Apa itu TOEFL dan siapa yang mengambilnya
English
TOEFL iBT is the English test most often accepted by universities in the United States, and it is
taken all over the world. It does not test what you know about English. It tests whether you can
use it: read a page from a textbook, follow a lecture 讲座, answer an email, and speak back.
It is made by ETS, an American organisation, and it is taken on a computer at a test
centre or at home.
Almost every Chinese student applying to a university in the United States or Canada may use it.
Many universities in the UK, Australia and Europe accept it as well — but always check the page
for your course, because the number they ask for is written there and nowhere else.
Four skills are tested in one sitting: Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking, in that
order.
⚠ The test changed in January 2026, and most advice on the internet is older than that. If a
book, a video or a shared question file talks about a 0 to 120 score, or about an "Integrated Writing" task
where you read a passage and hear a lecture, it is describing the old test. The sections below
describe the test you will actually sit.
Bahasa Indonesia
TOEFL iBT adalah tes bahasa Inggris yang paling sering diterima oleh universitas di Amerika Serikat, dan
diambil di seluruh dunia. Tes ini tidak menguji apa yang Anda ketahui tentang Bahasa Inggris. Tes ini menguji apakah Anda dapat
menggunakannya: membaca halaman buku teks, mengikuti kuliah 讲座, menjawab email, dan berbicara balasan.
Ini dibuat oleh ETS, organisasi Amerika, dan diambil di komputer di pusat
ujian atau di rumah.
Hampir setiap siswa Tiongkok yang mendaftar ke universitas di Amerika Serikat atau Kanada mungkin menggunakannya.
Banyak universitas di Inggris, Australia, dan Eropa juga menerimanya — tetapi selalu periksa halaman
untuk program studi Anda, karena angka yang diminta tercantum di sana dan tidak ada tempat lain.
Empat keterampilan diuji dalam satu sesi: Membaca, Mendengarkan, Menulis, dan Berbicara, secara
urutan tersebut.
⚠ Ujian berubah pada Januari 2026, dan sebagian besar saran di internet lebih tua dari itu. Jika
buku, video, atau file soal yang dibagikan menyebutkan skor 0 hingga 120, atau tentang tugas "Menulis Terintegrasi"
di mana Anda membaca sebuah teks dan mendengar ceramah, itu menjelaskan ujian lama. Bagian-bagian di bawah
menggambarkan ujian yang benar-benar akan Anda hadapi.
1.2
The shape of the test from January 2026 · Bentuk ujian mulai Januari 2026
English
The test is now adaptive 自适应: it looks at how you are doing and gives you items at a level
that matches you. Two students sitting on the same day do not see the same questions.
Section
About
Items
What is in it
Reading
30 minutes
about 50
Complete the Words, Read in Daily Life, Read an Academic Passage
Listening
29 minutes
about 47
Listen and Choose a Response, Listen to a Conversation, Listen to an Announcement, Listen to an Academic Talk
Writing
23 minutes
about 12
Build a Sentence, Write an Email, Write for an Academic Discussion
Speaking
8 minutes
about 11
Listen and Repeat, Take an Interview
ETS asks you to allow about two hours in total. The exact time and the exact number of items
vary, because the test adapts as you go.
Two things follow from "adaptive", and both change how you should practise. First, you cannot
work out your score from a number of right answers — the same 30 correct answers mean different
things depending on how hard the items were. Second, the test gets harder when you do well.
Meeting difficult items is a good sign, not a bad one.
Notice how much of the test is now everyday English 日常英语: a notice, an email, an
announcement, a short conversation. The old test was almost entirely academic. Practise both.
Bahasa Indonesia
Ujian ini kini adaptif 自适应: ia melihat bagaimana Anda berperforma dan memberikan item pada tingkat
yang sesuai dengan kemampuan Anda. Dua siswa yang mengikuti ujian pada hari yang sama tidak melihat soal yang sama.
Bagian
Tentang
Item
Apa yang ada di dalamnya
Membaca
30 menit
sekitar 50
Melengkapi Kata-kata, Membaca dalam Kehidupan Sehari-hari, Membaca Teks Akademik
Mendengarkan
29 menit
sekitar 47
Dengarkan dan Pilih Respons, Dengarkan Percakapan, Dengarkan Pengumuman, Dengarkan Ceramah Akademik
Menulis
23 menit
sekitar 12
Bangun Kalimat, Tulis Email, Tulis untuk Diskusi Akademik
Berbicara
8 menit
sekitar 11
Dengarkan dan Ulangi, Ikuti Wawancara
ETS meminta Anda mengalokasikan waktu total sekitar dua jam. Waktu yang tepat dan jumlah item yang
berubah-ubah, karena ujian beradaptasi saat Anda mengerjakannya.
Dua hal muncul dari sifat "adaptif", dan keduanya mengubah cara Anda berlatih. Pertama, Anda tidak
dapat menghitung skor Anda dari jumlah jawaban benar — 30 jawaban benar yang sama memiliki makna berbeda
tergantung seberapa sulit item-item tersebut. Kedua, ujian menjadi lebih sulit ketika Anda berperforma baik.
Menghadapi item yang sulit adalah tanda bagus, bukan tanda buruk.
Perhatikan betapa banyak bagian ujian yang kini merupakan bahasa Inggris sehari-hari 日常英语: sebuah pengumuman, email,
pengumuman, percakapan singkat. Ujian lama hampir sepenuhnya bersifat akademik. Latih keduanya.
1.3
The 1 to 6 score scale · Skala skor 1 hingga 6
English
You get four section scores and one overall score. Each runs from 1 to 6 in
half-point steps: 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6.
The overall score is the average of the four sections, rounded to the nearest half point. So
5.5, 5, 5.5 and 5 average 5.25, which is reported as 5.5.
The scale is lined up with the CEFR 欧洲语言共同参考框架, the ladder used across Europe:
Score
CEFR level
Roughly what it means
1 – 1.5
A1
beginner
2 – 2.5
A2
elementary
3 – 3.5
B1
intermediate
4 – 4.5
B2
upper intermediate — the usual floor for undergraduate study
5 – 5.5
C1
advanced — what selective universities and most Master's courses want
6
C2
near-native
⚠ Universities usually set a minimum overall score and a floor on each section. An
overall 5 with a 3.5 in Speaking is not the same application as a flat 5 — the weakest section
decides the result. Work on the lowest number, not the average.
Bahasa Indonesia
Anda mendapatkan empat skor bagian dan satu skor keseluruhan. Masing-masing berkisar dari 1 hingga 6 dalam
langkah setengah poin: 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6.
Skor keseluruhan adalah rata-rata dari keempat bagian, dibulatkan ke setengah poin terdekat. Jadi,
5.5, 5, 5.5, dan 5 rata-ratanya 5.25, yang dilaporkan sebagai 5.5.
Skala ini sejajar dengan CEFR 欧洲语言共同参考框架, tangga yang digunakan di seluruh Eropa:
Skor
Level CEFR
Sekitar artinya
1 – 1.5
A1
pemula
2 – 2.5
A2
dasar
3 – 3.5
B1
menengah
4 – 4.5
B2
menengah atas — batas minimum umum untuk studi sarjana
5 – 5.5
C1
mahir — apa yang diinginkan universitas selektif dan sebagian besar program master
6
C2
mendekati penutur asli
⚠ Universitas biasanya menetapkan skor keseluruhan minimum dan batas bawah untuk setiap bagian. Skor
skor keseluruhan 5 dengan 3.5 dalam Berbicara bukanlah aplikasi yang sama dengan skor rata-rata 5 — bagian terlemah
menentukan hasilnya. Perkuat bagian dengan skor terendah, bukan rata-ratanya.
Old scores and new scores together · Skor lama dan skor baru bersama-sama
English
Until January 2028, every score report shows three things: your CEFR level, your
1 to 6 scores, and a comparable 0 to 120 overall score.
That third number exists because universities write their requirement years in advance. A course
page that still says "100 on the TOEFL iBT" can be compared against it.
So when you read an offer, check which scale it is written on before you decide whether you
have met it. The safest move is to look at the university's own page in the month you apply.
Bahasa Indonesia
Hingga Januari 2028, setiap laporan skor menampilkan tiga hal: level CEFR Anda, skor
1 hingga 6 Anda, dan skor overall komparabel 0 hingga 120.
Angka ketiga ini ada karena universitas menetapkan persyaratan mereka beberapa tahun sebelumnya. Halaman
program yang masih bertuliskan "100 pada TOEFL iBT" dapat dibandingkan dengannya.
Jadi, saat Anda membaca penawaran, periksa pada skala mana itu ditulis sebelum memutuskan apakah Anda
telah memenuhinya. Langkah paling aman adalah melihat halaman resmi universitas pada bulan Anda mendaftar.
1.5
How to use these notes · Cara menggunakan catatan ini
English
The four sections that follow are one per skill, in the test's own order. Each explains what the
tasks ask for, what the marker is actually looking at, and the mistakes that cost Chinese
candidates marks most often.
A number in these notes is a format fact, and format facts change. Every one here was checked
on the ETS website on 13 September 2026. Before you book, check the two pages below yourself —
it takes five minutes and it is the cheapest insurance you will ever buy.
Bahasa Indonesia
Empat bagian berikut masing-masing satu per keterampilan, sesuai urutan ujian. Setiap bagian menjelaskan apa yang
tugas-tugasnya minta, apa yang sebenarnya dicari oleh penilai, dan kesalahan yang sering membuat calon
peserta didik Tiongkok kehilangan nilai.
Angka dalam catatan ini adalah fakta format, dan fakta format bisa berubah. Semua yang ada di sini telah diverifikasi
di situs web ETS pada 13 September 2026. Sebelum Anda melakukan booking, periksa sendiri dua halaman di bawah ini —
memakan waktu lima menit dan itu adalah asuransi termurah yang pernah Anda beli.
1.6
Exam tips · Tips ujian
English
Do not buy a practice book printed before 2026. It is not a slightly old book; it is a book
about a different test.
Decide early which scale your universities use, then write the target number on the first
page of your notebook. A target you can see is a target you work towards.
Practise everyday English deliberately. Chinese candidates usually arrive strong on academic
reading and weak on emails, notices and short conversations, because that is what school
rewarded. The new test rewards both.
Type, do not write. The whole test is on a computer, including the two writing tasks. If you
type slowly in English, that alone costs you marks in a 23-minute section — practise on a
keyboard from today.
Jangan beli buku latihan yang dicetak sebelum 2026. Itu bukan sekadar buku yang sedikit usang; itu adalah buku
tentang ujian yang berbeda.
Putuskan sejak dini skala mana yang digunakan universitas Anda, lalu tulis angka target di halaman pertama
buku catatan Anda. Target yang terlihat adalah target yang Anda perjuangkan.
Latih bahasa Inggris sehari-hari secara sengaja. Calon peserta didik Tiongkok biasanya kuat dalam
membaca akademik dan lemah dalam email, pengumuman, dan percakapan singkat, karena itulah yang dihargai sekolah
sebelumnya. Ujian baru menghargai keduanya.
Ketik, jangan menulis tangan. Seluruh ujian dilakukan di komputer, termasuk dua tugas menulis. Jika
Anda mengetik lambat dalam bahasa Inggris, hal itu saja sudah mengurangi nilai dalam bagian 23 menit — berlatihlah menggunakan
keyboard sejak hari ini.
A student sees “overall 5” and stops reading a course's language requirement.
The next line says “at least 4.5 in every section.”
An overall 5 does not show that all four section floors have been met.
Careful preparation begins with reading the whole requirement.
This supplement adds original worked decisions to the existing overview.
All programmes, score profiles and practice examples below are fictional.
They teach how to check information; they are not university admission advice or official rated tasks.
The preserved skill handouts remain beside these additional notes.
Separate the adaptive sections from the whole test
The 2026 ETS blueprint describes Reading and Listening as two-stage adaptive 自适应 sections.
Writing and Speaking are linear: test takers receiving a particular form get its same task set.
Do not read the older overview's broad description as saying every section adapts question by question.
A first module helps route a learner to a later module.
A module 模块 is a group of tasks, not a score report.
A difficult question alone does not prove that you have done well or badly.
Its difficulty to you also depends on your knowledge and the topic.
Task selection and score reporting answer different questions.
ETS notes that Reading and Listening can contain unscored items.
A raw score 原始分 records points before conversion to a reported scale.
You cannot convert “thirty answers felt right” into a reported band here.
Do not assume every displayed item contributes equally to that reported band.
Use practice errors to choose a learning action, rather than guessing your live result.
The public timing table gives approximate base times.
Directions and administration mean that adding its section times does not give the full appointment length.
Use the current official instructions for your test and any approved arrangements.
Our classroom practice clocks below are teaching choices, not a copy of the live test interface.
Read an overall score and section floors together
Fictional requirement: Riverside Programme asks for overall 5 and at least 4.5 in each section.
It also asks applicants to submit other documents. Meeting this language requirement does not guarantee admission.
Profile
Reading
Listening
Writing
Speaking
A
5.5
5
5
3.5
B
4.5
5
5
5
Profile A
The sum is 19. The average is 19 divided by 4, or 4.75.
Rounded to the nearest half band, the overall score is 5.
That meets the overall requirement, but Speaking 3.5 is below the section floor of 4.5.
The language requirement is therefore not fully met.
Writing “overall passed” in your notebook would hide the missing part.
Profile B
The sum is 19.5. The average is 4.875, which rounds to overall 5.
Every section is at least 4.5, so this profile meets the fictional language requirement.
Reading is the lowest score, but it does not automatically prevent meeting this requirement.
A lowest section matters in relation to the actual floor, not as a universal rule.
A threshold 门槛 is a stated minimum that you must compare against the correct score.
Record the programme, score scale, overall threshold, section thresholds and when you checked the information.
A different programme may ask for different evidence. Use its current written requirement.
Round the average without adding the bands
The new overall scale averages the four section bands, then rounds to the nearest half band.
Do not report the sum of the four new bands as the overall band.
ETS gives 5.125 becoming 5, and 5.25 becoming 5.5.
The midpoint example tells you how that exact boundary is handled.
For practice, consider section bands 5.5, 5.5, 5 and 5.
Their sum is 21; dividing by four gives 5.25; the reported overall is 5.5.
This is a calculation from supplied bands, not a way to grade your own practice answers.
During the transition, reports also provide a comparable overall result on the older 0–120 scale.
That number does not make the report outdated.
A practice resource can still teach useful vocabulary while describing tasks that are no longer in the current format.
Check its actual task descriptions, date and purpose rather than reject it only because it mentions 120.
Do not multiply a new band by twenty and call the result an exact conversion.
Use the reported comparable score and official guidance for a requirement written on the older scale.
Practise a communication decision before chasing speed
The following short original examples show what different language skills do.
They introduce practice; the later skill supplements will develop complete task sets.
Reading a practical message
Message: The workshop remains on Friday, but it will begin at 3 p.m. in Room 12.
Bring your draft. If you have already emailed it, bring a copy anyway.
Question: What should someone who emailed a draft do?
They should still bring a copy. “Anyway” keeps that instruction in force.
The message changes the time and room, not the day.
An answer about Thursday would add a change that the message never states.
Choosing a useful reply
Speaker: “Could you show me where the registration desk is?”
Possible replies: A “It opens at nine.” B “Sure, it is just beside the main entrance.”
C “I registered last week.”
B responds to the request for a location.
A gives a time, and C gives the speaker's own past action.
All three mention registration-related information, but only B answers this request.
A repeated word alone would not make a reply correct or incorrect.
Hear the sentence from a partner before reading these options to turn it into listening practice.
Building a clear sentence
Use these groups: “the librarian” / “because” / “I asked” / “the printer was not working.”
One complete sentence is: “I asked the librarian because the printer was not working.”
The main clause gives the action; the because clause explains its reason.
“I asked because the librarian the printer was not working” leaves the ideas in the wrong relationship.
Word-order practice should preserve the message as well as grammar.
Answering a spoken question
Question: “Where do you prefer to study?”
Original response: “I prefer the library because it is quieter than my flat.
For example, I can finish my reading without the television distracting me.
If I need to discuss a project, I meet my group in a separate study room.”
The speaker gives a preference, a reason, an example and a relevant exception.
This is an interview-style response, not a sentence to substitute in a Listen and Repeat task.
In repetition practice, reproduce the supplied sentence rather than change its meaning into your own answer.
Speak aloud. Written text alone cannot show whether your delivery is understandable.
Choose a practice action from the error
A diagnosis 诊断 identifies the difficulty you need to work on.
“Bad at English” does not tell you what to practise tomorrow.
A small error record can make the next action precise.
What happened
What to check
Useful next action
You chose Thursday
Day change invented
Mark changes in a fresh message
You chose the opening time
Location request missed
Identify a new question’s purpose
Your because sentence broke
Clause order unclear
Rebuild a new sentence; explain its action
Your listener missed the reason
Delivery or link unclear
Record a new answer; ask what was understood
Use a first attempt to discover the difficulty, then review the evidence.
A replay, slower reading or dictionary check can help learning after that attempt.
They are not failures simply because a live test limits those supports.
A timed attempt and a careful review train different parts of preparation.
Review ten overview decisions
Try the questions before reading the explanations.
Profile A reports overall 5. Does it meet Riverside's complete language requirement?
Does Profile B fail simply because Reading is its lowest section?
What is the average of 5.5, 5.5, 5 and 5, and its rounded overall?
Should you report their sum, 21, as the new overall band?
Does a comparable 0–120 total prove that a 2026 report is old?
Does one difficult Reading item prove your previous answers were correct?
Can the practice worksheet's total correct answers determine your reported band here?
In the workshop message, has the day changed?
In the registration question, why is an opening time not the best reply?
Can the written library response certify a learner's live speaking performance?
Explained answers
No. Speaking 3.5 is below the fictional section floor of 4.5, even though the overall threshold is met.
No. Reading 4.5 meets that floor. All four section requirements and the overall requirement are met.
The average is 5.25 and the rounded overall is 5.5. Divide the sum by four before rounding.
No. Twenty-one is the sum used in the calculation, not a band on the 1–6 overall scale.
No. The transition includes a comparable older-scale total. Check the report and actual task format.
No. The section routes across modules, and your experience of a question does not reveal the whole result.
No. Our original practice is not the scored adaptive test or its conversion system.
No. It remains Friday. The time and room change; the requirement to bring a copy remains.
The speaker asked where the desk is. A location response answers that request; a time response does not.
No. It shows ideas and language choices. Actual speaking needs aloud practice and a listener's check.
Keep a record that supports the next session
Write the requirement you are working towards and where it came from.
Choose one current task type and one difficulty to practise.
After the attempt, keep your answer, the evidence for a correction and the next action.
For example: “Workshop message; missed anyway; still need a copy; practise another exception instruction.”
Review the next attempt to see whether the same error returns.
A completed worksheet is useful evidence of practice, not a guarantee of a test result or admission.
The Reading section and its clock · Bagian Membaca dan waktunya
English
About 30 minutes, about 50 items. That is much faster than the old test, and the items are
shorter — so the skill being tested is not endurance 耐力 any more. It is speed with accuracy.
Three kinds of task appear: Complete the Words, Read in Daily Life and Read an Academic
Passage. The first two are new in 2026.
The section is adaptive, so the passages you see depend on how you are doing. Do not try to
read the difficulty of the test as a sign of how you are performing.
You cannot go back to a section once you have left it. Answer every item as you meet it.
⚠ There is no penalty 扣分 for a wrong answer. An item left blank scores exactly what a wrong answer
scores: nothing. Never leave an item empty.
Bahasa Indonesia
Sekitar 30 menit, sekitar 50 item. Ini jauh lebih cepat daripada ujian lama, dan item-itemnya
lebih pendek — jadi keterampilan yang diuji bukan lagi ketahanan fisik 耐力. Itu adalah kecepatan dengan akurasi.
Tiga jenis tugas muncul: Lengkapi Kata, Baca dalam Kehidupan Sehari-hari dan Baca Teks AkademikTeks. Dua yang pertama baru diperkenalkan pada tahun 2026.
Bagian ini adaptif, sehingga teks yang Anda lihat bergantung pada performa Anda. Jangan mencoba
membaca tingkat kesulitan tes sebagai indikator performa Anda.
Anda tidak dapat kembali ke bagian yang telah dilewati. Jawab setiap item saat Anda menjumpai item tersebut.
⚠ Tidak ada penalti 扣分 untuk jawaban yang salah. Item yang dibiarkan kosong mendapat nilai sama persis dengan jawaban yang salah,
yaitu nol. Jangan pernah meninggalkan item kosong.
2.2
Complete the Words · Lengkapi Kata
English
A short text with letters or whole words missing, which you supply.
This is a test of grammar and vocabulary 词汇, not of finding information. You are not
hunting through a passage; you are asking "what word belongs here?"
Use the sentence around the gap. The word class 词性 is usually decided before the meaning is:
after the you need a noun, after very an adjective, after to a base verb.
Spelling counts. A word with a letter missing is a wrong word.
Read the completed sentence back to yourself. If it does not sound like English, it is not.
Bahasa Indonesia
Teks singkat dengan huruf atau kata-kata utuh yang hilang, yang harus Anda lengkapi.
Ini adalah uji tata bahasa dan kosakata 词汇, bukan pengujian kemampuan menemukan informasi. Anda tidak
mencari-cari di dalam teks; Anda bertanya "kata apa yang seharusnya ada di sini?"
Gunakan kalimat di sekitar titik rumpang. Kelas kata 词性 biasanya ditentukan sebelum maknanya:
setelah the Anda membutuhkan kata benda, setelah very sebuah kata sifat, setelah to kata kerja dasar.
Ejaan itu penting. Kata yang kehilangan satu huruf adalah kata yang salah.
Bacalah kalimat yang sudah lengkap kembali dalam hati Anda. Jika terdengar tidak seperti bahasa Inggris, maka itu bukan.
2.3
Read in Daily Life · Baca dalam Kehidupan Sehari-hari
English
Emails, notices 通知, timetables, advertisements and other short practical texts.
The question is almost always what should the reader DO — or what has changed, or what is
not allowed.
Practical texts hide their key information in small places: a date, a room number, a word like
except, unless, only, from Monday. Those words carry the answer far more often than the
long sentences around them.
Watch the register 语域. An email from a tutor is polite and indirect: "you may wish to
consider" means do this. "It would be helpful if you could" is an instruction, not a comment.
⚠ A daily-life text is short, so students read it too fast and answer from memory of a similar
text. Read the one in front of you.
Bahasa Indonesia
Email, pengumuman 通知, jadwal, iklan, dan teks praktis pendek lainnya.
Pertanyaannya hampir selalu apa yang harus dibacakan melakukan — atau apa yang berubah, atau apa yang
tidak diperbolehkan.
Teks praktis menyembunyikan informasi kunci di tempat kecil: tanggal, nomor ruangan, kata seperti
kecuali, kecuali jika, hanya, dari hari Senin. Kata-kata itu membawa jawaban jauh lebih sering daripada
kalimat-kalimat panjang di sekitarnya.
Perhatikan register 语域. Email dari tutor bersifat sopan dan tersirat: "Anda mungkin ingin
mempertimbangkan" berarti lakukan hal ini. "Akan sangat membantu jika Anda bisa" adalah instruksi, bukan komentar.
⚠ Teks kehidupan sehari-hari itu pendek, sehingga siswa membacanya terlalu cepat dan menjawab berdasarkan ingatan tentang teks serupa.
Teks. Bacalah teks yang ada di depan Anda.
A passage from the kind of book a first-year university course would set.
Skim 略读 first, thirty seconds, for the shape: what is this about, how many parts has it,
where does the argument turn? Then answer, and scan 扫读 back for each fact.
The topic sentence 主题句 — usually the first sentence of a paragraph — tells you what that
paragraph is for. When a question asks which paragraph contains something, you are matching
against topic sentences, not reading everything again.
A question about a word asks what it means in this passage, not what it means in general.
Answer from the sentence, not from your dictionary memory.
Guess an unknown word from its parts: a prefix 前缀 (un-, re-, over-) and a suffix 后缀
(-tion, -able, -ly) narrow the meaning and fix the word class before you have understood
the root at all.
An inference 推理 question asks what the passage lets you conclude, not what it says. The
right answer is always supported by a line you could point at. If you cannot point at the line,
it is the wrong answer.
Bahasa Indonesia
Teks dari jenis buku yang akan digunakan dalam mata kuliah universitas tahun pertama.
Skim 略读 terlebih dahulu, tiga puluh detik, untuk melihat struktur: tentang apa ini, berapa banyak bagiannya,
di mana argumennya berbalik arah? Kemudian jawab, dan scan 扫读 kembali untuk setiap fakta.
Kalimat topik 主题句 — biasanya kalimat pertama dalam sebuah paragraf — memberi tahu Anda apa tujuan
paragraf tersebut. Ketika pertanyaan meminta paragraf mana yang memuat sesuatu, Anda mencocokkannya
dengan kalimat topik, bukan membaca semuanya lagi.
Pertanyaan tentang sebuah kata menanyakan makna kata tersebut dalam teks ini, bukan maknanya secara umum.
Jawablah berdasarkan kalimatnya, bukan berdasarkan ingatan kamus Anda.
Tebak kata yang tidak dikenal dari bagian-bagiannya: awalan 前缀 (un-, re-, over-) dan akhiran 后缀
(-tion, -able, -ly) menyempitkan makna dan menetapkan kelas kata sebelum Anda memahami
akar katanya sama sekali.
Pertanyaan inferensi 推理 menanyakan apa yang dapat disimpulkan dari teks, bukan apa yang tertulis. Jawaban
yang benar selalu didukung oleh baris yang bisa Anda tunjukkan. Jika Anda tidak bisa menunjuk barisnya,
itu adalah jawaban yang salah.
What costs Chinese candidates marks · Apa yang membuat calon peserta Tiongkok kehilangan nilai
English
Translating while reading. Turning each sentence into Chinese in your head takes two to three
times as long as reading it. At about 30 minutes for 50 items there is no room for it. This is
not a habit you can drop on test day; it takes weeks of reading without a dictionary to lose.
Subvocalising 默读出声 — saying each word silently. It caps your speed at speaking speed,
around 150 words a minute, when you need double that.
Hunting for a word from the question. The test writes questions in different words on
purpose. A synonym 同义词 in the passage is the normal case, not a trick.
Perfectionism on one item. Every item is worth the same. Two minutes spent rescuing one hard
item costs you three easy ones later.
Bahasa Indonesia
Menerjemahkan sambil membaca. Mengubah setiap kalimat menjadi bahasa Mandarin di kepala memakan waktu dua hingga tiga
kali lebih lama daripada membacanya. Dengan estimasi 30 menit untuk 50 item, tidak ada ruang untuk itu. Ini
bukan kebiasaan yang bisa Anda tinggalkan di hari ujian; butuh berminggu-minggu membaca tanpa kamus untuk menghilangkannya.
Subvokalising 默读出声 — mengucapkan setiap kata dalam hati. Hal ini membatasi kecepatan Anda pada kecepatan bicara,
sekitar 150 kata per menit, padahal Anda membutuhkan dua kali lipatnya.
Mencari kata dari pertanyaan. Tes menulis pertanyaan dengan kata-kata berbeda secara sengaja. Sinonim 同义词 dalam teks adalah kondisi normal, bukan jebakan.
tujuan. Sinonim 同义词 dalam teks adalah kasus normal, bukan jebakan.
Sempurnaan pada satu item. Setiap item bernilai sama. Dua menit dihabiskan menyelamatkan satu item sulit
item mengorbankan tiga item mudah nanti.
2.6
Exam tips · Tips ujian
English
Practise with a timer from the first day. Reading well and reading fast are two different
skills, and only one of them is trained by reading slowly.
Read one academic page and one practical text every day — a science article and an email, a
history page and a noticeboard. The section now asks for both.
Build vocabulary from the Academic Word List, but learn each word in a sentence. A word you
have only met on a flashcard is a word you will not recognise inside a line of prose.
After every practice set, write down why each wrong answer was wrong: did you misread the
question, miss a word, run out of time, or not know the vocabulary? Four different problems need
four different fixes, and only your own list tells you which one you have.
Latih dengan stopwatch sejak hari pertama. Membaca dengan baik dan membaca cepat adalah dua keterampilan berbeda
keterampilan, dan hanya satu dari mereka yang dilatih dengan membaca perlahan.
Bacalah satu halaman akademik dan satu teks praktis setiap hari — artikel sains dan email, halaman
sejarah dan papan pengumuman. Bagian sekarang meminta keduanya.
Bangun kosakata dari Academic Word List, tetapi pelajari setiap kata dalam sebuah kalimat. Kata yang
hanya Anda temui pada kartu flash adalah kata yang tidak akan Anda kenali di dalam baris prosa.
Setelah setiap set latihan, tuliskan mengapa setiap jawaban salah itu salah: apakah Anda salah baca
empat solusi berbeda, dan hanya daftar pribadi Anda yang memberitahu mana yang Anda alami.
empat perbaikan berbeda, dan hanya daftar Anda sendiri yang memberi tahu mana yang Anda miliki.
A library notice says that books are due on Friday unless your receipt gives a later date.
A student returns a book on Friday without checking the receipt.
The student may have met the deadline, but has not used all the information.
Reading means joining details and conditions, not recognising a familiar word.
This supplement adds original worked practice to the preserved Reading notes.
It covers Complete the Words, Read in Daily Life and Read an Academic Passage.
All passages, questions and answers below are newly written teaching examples.
They are not official ETS items, rated test forms or a complete adaptive test.
Their lengths and practice clocks are classroom choices.
Try each set before reading its answers. Keep the text visible while you work.
The official Reading description says the needed information is in the text.
You do not need specialist knowledge of the topic to answer these questions.
An answer must fit the particular text, even if another answer sounds possible in real life.
Complete words using letters, grammar and meaning together
In Complete the Words, parts of words are missing from a short text.
Use the supplied letters and the surrounding sentence together.
Grammar suggests possible forms; meaning and spelling narrow the choice further.
In this practice, each underscore represents one missing letter. Write the whole completed word in your notebook.
In a live task, follow its own entry instructions; our notation does not copy its interface.
Original text A: comparing paths
Students mea_____ (1) the temperature of two campus paths at the same ti__ (2).
One path lay under trees; the other was expo___ (3) to direct sunlight.
Their results sho___ (4) that the shaded path was coo___ (5) at every reading.
However, they cou__ (6) not con_____ (7) that shade was the only cause.
The study did not con____ (8) wind speed or surface material.
They pla____ (9) to rep___ (10) the measurements with these differences checked.
Explained completions
Measured. The students took temperature readings. “Measured” fits the past events and begins with mea.
Time. “At the same time” makes the comparison meaningful. “Times” needs an extra letter and changes the form.
Exposed. “Was exposed to” describes the path receiving sunlight. Exposing does not fit the three missing letters or this passive structure.
Showed. The results showed a pattern in the completed study. “Shown” does not form a complete verb after “results” here.
Cooler. The sentence compares the two paths, so the comparative form fits. “Coolest” needs more letters and suggests a different comparison.
Could. The phrase “could not conclude” gives a limit on the students' claim. The supplied cou and two missing letters fit could.
Conclude. After could not, use the base form. The students cannot reach this stronger claim from their evidence.
Control. Wind and surface material were not kept comparable. The base form follows did not; controlled would add an incorrect ending.
Planned. The students made a future plan after their first study. Planned has double n; planed is a different word and does not fit this meaning.
Repeat. They intend to take the measurements again. Repeat fits the supplied letters, length and meaning after to.
Read the completed text once more. The pattern and its limit should both make sense.
A correctly spelled word can still be wrong if it changes the sentence's meaning.
Original text B: a study collection
The college library created a dig____ (11) collection of local photographs.
Students can sea___ (12) it by street name or year.
Each image has a short des________ (13), but some dates remain unc______ (14).
The library asks users to provide evi_____ (15) before suggesting a new date.
This helps staff rev___ (16) the information without treating every guess as a fact.
11.Digital. A searchable electronic collection is digital; dig plus four letters fits.
12.Search. “Search it by street name or year” explains how users find images.
13.Description. A short written description accompanies an image. Des plus eight letters fits description.
14.Uncertain. Some dates are not established. Unc plus six letters fits uncertain.
15.Evidence. Users must support a proposed change. Evi plus five letters fits evidence.
16.Revise. Staff can change the information after checking it. Rev plus three letters fits revise.
The second text connects the words: uncertain dates need evidence before revision.
Do not select each word as if it appeared alone on a vocabulary card.
Check a grammar shortcut against the actual sentence
The original notes offer quick word-class hints. Use them as starting points, not fixed laws.
An article 冠词 such as the can come before an adjective as well as directly before a noun.
“The quiet room” contains an adjective between the and room.
“The carefully prepared report” adds an adverb before the adjective.
To can mark an infinitive 不定式: “They plan to repeat the study.”
It can also be a preposition 介词: “They walked to the library.”
In “They look forward to reading the report,” reading fits the whole expression.
Do not turn every word after to into a base verb.
A word family 词族 contains related forms, such as describe, description and descriptive.
“Each image has a short ___” needs a thing that the image has: description.
“A ___ note accompanies each image” could use descriptive.
The supplied letters, word length and sentence must all fit.
Prefixes can suggest meaning: uncertain means not certain, and repeat involves doing something again.
But a word part alone does not prove the answer.
A familiar ending can occur in words with different jobs.
Verify the whole sentence and preserve the spelling of the actual word.
Read a daily-life email for purpose and conditions
Original email
Subject: Wednesday workshop
Hello everyone,
The workshop still starts at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
We have moved from Room 18 to Room 21 because the projector in Room 18 is being repaired.
Please bring a printed draft unless you uploaded your final draft before noon on Tuesday.
If you uploaded it after noon, bring a printed copy too.
You may wish to bring a notebook for your own notes, but this is optional.
Mina, workshop organiser
Questions 17–19
17. What is the main purpose of this email?
A Announce a new workshop day. B Explain a room change and what participants should bring.
C Cancel the workshop. D Ask participants to repair a projector.
18. Jia uploaded a final draft at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. What should Jia bring?
A Only a notebook. B Nothing because any upload removes the requirement.
C A printed draft. D A replacement projector.
19. What does the email say about a notebook?
A Everyone must bring one. B It is optional for personal notes.
C It replaces the printed draft. D It must be uploaded before noon.
Explained answers
17.B. The email announces the move to Room 21 and explains the draft requirement.
A changes Wednesday without evidence; C invents a cancellation; D confuses a repair reason with a participant's job.
18.C. One p.m. is after noon, so Jia must bring a printed copy.
The exception applies only to a final draft uploaded before noon.
A and B ignore the condition; D adds a job the email never gives Jia.
19.B. The email explicitly says optional. It offers a useful choice rather than a requirement.
A changes the strength of the message. C and D wrongly transfer the draft instructions to the notebook.
Polite wording can introduce a request, a suggestion or an option.
“You may wish to” does not always mean “you must.”
Read the whole message, including words that state whether an action is required.
Read a notice and a timetable together
Original notice
Study-support desk: from 6 October, afternoon appointments take place in the library annex.
Morning appointments stay in Room 4. Bring your appointment confirmation.
Walk-in questions are welcome from 12:15 to 12:45; booked meetings do not run during that period.
Period
Service
Location
09:00–12:00
Booked meetings
Room 4
12:15–12:45
Walk-in questions
Library annex
14:00–16:00
Booked meetings
Library annex
An annex 附楼 is an extra building or part of a building connected with the main one.
Here, use the stated location; do not invent a map or travel time.
Questions 20–22
20. Where should a student attend a 10 a.m. booked meeting on 7 October?
A Room 4. B Library annex. C Either place. D The notice does not state a location.
21. Which student can use the service at 12:30 without a booking?
A A student attending a booked meeting. B A student with a walk-in question.
C Only a student with an afternoon booking. D Nobody, because the desk is closed.
22. What remains unchanged from the previous arrangement?
A All afternoon appointments. B The location of morning appointments.
C All meetings are now walk-in. D Nobody needs confirmation.
Explained answers
20.A. Ten a.m. belongs to the morning booked period, which stays in Room 4.
B wrongly applies the afternoon change to every meeting. C invents choice; D ignores both notice and timetable.
21.B. The notice and timetable identify a walk-in period at 12:30.
A contradicts the statement about booked meetings; C invents an eligibility rule; D ignores the stated opening.
22.B. “Stay” signals that the morning location has not changed.
A misses the afternoon move; C and D contradict the service type and confirmation instruction.
The prose explains a change; the table helps locate a period quickly.
Join them. A true phrase in one cell is not enough if it belongs to the wrong time.
Read an academic passage as a connected explanation
Original passage: collecting seeds in a city
A town planting group compared two ways of collecting seeds from a local wildflower.
In the first method, volunteers picked seeds from the earliest plants to flower.
In the second, they returned several times and collected from plants flowering at different dates.
The group wanted a collection representing the variation already present in the local population.
The first method was convenient because volunteers could finish in one visit.
However, it risked leaving out plants that flowered later.
The second required more visits, but sampled a wider range of flowering dates.
Researchers explained that neither method creates new variation; collection determines which existing plants are represented.
The trial recorded dates and the plants visited, rather than testing later survival.
Its results therefore support a claim about the breadth of collection, not a claim that one batch grows better.
The group planned a separate growing trial before making that stronger claim.
Convenience remained important, but the group decided to compare it with its sampling aim.
Questions 23–28
23. Which title best expresses the main idea?
A Creating variation by collecting seeds. B How collection choices affect which plants are represented.
C Proving that early flowers always survive longer. D Replacing volunteers with researchers.
24. Why was the first method convenient?
A It created new plant types. B It needed only one visit.
C It sampled all flowering dates. D It tested survival immediately.
25. What does “it” refer to in “However, it risked leaving out plants that flowered later”?
A The first collection method. B The growing trial.
C New variation. D A late-flowering plant.
26. What does “breadth” mean in this passage?
A Physical width of the town. B Depth of a planting hole.
C Range of plants included in the collection. D Number of researchers employed.
27. What can reasonably be inferred about using only the first method?
A It may represent flowering dates less widely than repeated visits do.
B It proves the seeds will never grow. C It changes every plant's flowering date.
D It requires more collection visits than the second method.
28. Why does the writer mention the separate growing trial?
A To prove that collecting is unnecessary. B To show how researchers created new variation.
C To explain why volunteers stopped helping. D To distinguish a future survival test from the completed collection comparison.
Explain the academic answers from evidence
23.B. All three paragraphs connect collection decisions with representation and the limits of the trial.
A contradicts “neither method creates new variation.” C claims survival evidence that was not collected.
D invents a change of workers. A title should cover the explanation, not one familiar word.
24.B. The first method let volunteers finish in one visit.
A wrongly attributes creation of variation to collection. C ignores omitted later plants.
D confuses the completed comparison with the planned growing trial.
25.A. The previous sentence describes the first method as convenient; “however” introduces its drawback.
Follow the connected idea. The other options are not the method that can leave later plants out of collection.
A referent 指代对象 is the person or thing a word such as it refers to.
26.C. Breadth concerns how widely the collection represents flowering dates.
The paragraph contrasts this with survival. A and B choose physical measurements from another context;
D adds staffing information that the passage does not discuss.
27.A. Picking from only the earliest flowers risks omitting later-flowering plants.
That supports a narrower range of dates, even though the sentence does not repeat the option's wording.
B and C are much stronger unsupported claims; D reverses the stated visit pattern.
An inference must connect evidence. It cannot add a result the trial never measured.
28.D. The separate trial would investigate the stronger claim about how seeds grow later.
This marks the boundary of the existing evidence. A, B and C invent purposes or events.
A limitation 局限 states what evidence cannot establish as well as what it can.
Compare which existing plants are included before making a claim about survival.
Notice the passage structure: aim and methods, comparison, then evidence limits and next step.
A paragraph's job matters even when its first sentence is not a complete summary.
“However” marks a drawback; “therefore” connects the measured evidence to a restricted conclusion.
Improve accuracy before making the same task faster
The original notes give fixed reading speeds and broad claims about Chinese learners.
Use your own error record instead. Different learners need different support.
A dictionary check or a brief translation during review can explain a word you missed.
It does not itself prove that you cannot read under test conditions.
For a first practice round, allow four minutes for text A and three for text B.
Allow four minutes for the email and notice together, then five for the academic passage.
These are classroom clocks, not official task limits or a score prediction.
If you finish quickly but choose answers without evidence, review accuracy before reducing the clock.
If you run out of time, identify where time went: decoding words, rereading conditions or comparing options.
During review, write a short evidence phrase beside each answer.
For a missing word, write the complete word and the grammar or meaning that supports it.
Then attempt a fresh text. Faster recall of this worksheet is not proof of transfer to a new passage.
Scored Reading items have a maximum of one raw point in the blueprint.
That does not make a classroom total an exact reported-band conversion.
Unscored items, adaptive routing and scale conversion remain separate issues.
Do not calculate the number of later questions you will lose from one minute spent here.
Follow the real test's navigation and timing instructions when taking it.
Check six decisions on a fresh attempt
Does “the” always require the next word to be a noun?
Does “to” always require the next word to be a base verb?
Why must the collection passage not be used to claim better seed survival?
A notebook is optional in the email. Can polite wording make it compulsory?
Does knowing what a flower usually does replace the passage's evidence?
What should you change after successfully remembering all these answers?
Explained answers
No. An adjective or adverb-plus-adjective can appear before the noun: “the carefully prepared report.”
No. To can be an infinitive marker or a preposition. Check the whole phrase and sentence.
The trial measured collection dates and representation, not later survival. A separate growing trial is planned.
No. Read the explicit optional condition; do not override it with a politeness shortcut.
No. Answer from this passage. Outside knowledge may suggest possibilities the text never establishes.
Attempt new texts and explain their evidence. Change the task to practise the skill beyond this worksheet.
The Listening section and its clock · Bagian Mendengar dan jamnya
English
About 29 minutes, about 47 items. Four kinds of task: Listen and Choose a Response,
Listen to a Conversation, Listen to an Announcement and Listen to an Academic Talk.
Every recording is played once. There is no second chance, and there is no pause button.
You may take notes 笔记 while you listen, on the paper the test centre gives you.
The section is adaptive, so what you hear depends on how the earlier items went.
⚠ The single biggest cause of lost marks here is dwelling 纠结: a student misses one detail,
keeps thinking about it, and misses the next thirty seconds as well. One missed item is one mark.
Thirty seconds of not listening is five. Let it go and stay with the speaker.
Bahasa Indonesia
Sekitar 29 menit, sekitar 47 item. Empat jenis tugas: Dengarkan dan Pilih Respons,
Dengarkan Percakapan, Dengarkan Pengumuman dan Dengarkan Bicara Akademik.
Anda boleh mencatat 笔记 sementara mendengarkan, di atas kertas yang disediakan pusat tes.
Bagian ini adaptif, sehingga apa yang Anda dengar bergantung pada bagaimana item sebelumnya berjalan.
Bagian ini adaptif, sehingga apa yang Anda dengar bergantung pada bagaimana item sebelumnya berjalan.
⚠ Penyebab terbesar kehilangan nilai di sini adalah menahan diri (dwelling): seorang siswa melewatkan satu detail,
terus memikirkan hal itu, dan melewatkan tiga puluh detik berikutnya juga. Satu item yang terlewat sama dengan satu poin.
Tiga puluh detik tidak mendengarkan bernilai lima. Biarkan saja dan tetap fokus pada pembicara.
Listen and Choose a Response · Dengarkan dan Pilih Respons
English
You hear one short turn of speech and choose what would naturally come next.
This is a test of everyday conversation, not of academic English. The right answer is the
reply a real person would give.
Listen to the function 功能 of what was said, not only the words: was it a request, an offer,
a complaint, an apology, a suggestion? The reply has to match the function.
Intonation 语调 carries meaning here. "You're coming to the meeting?" with a rising tune is a
question; the same words falling are a statement.
⚠ An answer that repeats words from the prompt is usually wrong. Natural replies use different
words.
Bahasa Indonesia
Anda mendengar satu giliran ucapan singkat dan memilih apa yang akan secara alami datang selanjutnya.
Ini adalah tes percakapan sehari-hari, bukan bahasa Inggris akademik. Jawaban yang benar adalah
balasan yang akan diberikan orang sungguhan.
Dengarkan fungsi 功能 dari apa yang diucapkan, bukan hanya kata-katanya: apakah itu permintaan, tawaran,
keluhan, permintaan maaf, atau saran? Balasannya harus sesuai dengan fungsinya.
Intonasi 语调 membawa makna di sini. "You're coming to the meeting?" dengan nada naik adalah
pertanyaan; kata yang sama jika nadanya turun adalah pernyataan.
⚠ Jawaban yang mengulang kata-kata dari prompt biasanya salah. Balasan alami menggunakan kata-kata yang berbeda
dari prompt tersebut.
3.3
Listen to a Conversation, and to an Announcement · Dengarkan Percakapan, dan Dengarkan Pengumuman
English
A conversation is two speakers, often a student and someone at a university — a tutor, a
librarian, an office. Track who wants what: one speaker has a problem and the other offers a
solution, and most questions sit on that line.
An announcement is one speaker giving practical information: a change of room, a deadline, a
procedure. Listen for what has changed and what the listener must do.
In both, a change of direction is signalled before it happens. Actually, but, the thing is,
having said that, on second thoughts — a signpost 路标词 tells you the next sentence matters.
Numbers, dates, room names and prices are exactly the details these tasks ask about. Write them
down as you hear them; do not trust your memory for a number.
Bahasa Indonesia
Sebuah percakapan melibatkan dua pembicara, sering kali seorang siswa dan seseorang di universitas — seorang
tutor, pustakawan, atau staf kantor. Pantau siapa menginginkan apa: satu pembicara memiliki masalah dan yang lain menawarkan
solusi, dan sebagian besar pertanyaan berada pada garis hubungan ini.
Sebuah pengumuman dilakukan oleh satu pembicara yang memberikan informasi praktis: perubahan ruang, tenggat waktu, atau
prosedur. Dengarkan apa yang telah berubah dan apa yang harus dilakukan pendengar.
Dalam keduanya, perubahan arah disyaratkan sebelum terjadi. Actually, but, the thing is,
having said that, on second thoughts — kata penunjuk 路标 memberi tahu Anda bahwa kalimat berikutnya penting.
Angka, tanggal, nama ruang, dan harga adalah detail spesifik yang diminta tugas-tugas ini. Tulislah
mereka saat Anda mendengarnya; jangan mengandalkan ingatan untuk angka.
3.4
Listen to an Academic Talk · Dengarkan Ceramah Akademik
English
A lecture-style talk on a study topic, with one main speaker.
Do not try to write everything. Write the shape: the topic, then each new point on its own
line, with a dash for the example that supports it. Your notes should look like the talk's
outline, not like its transcript 文字稿.
Lecturers signal structure: today I want to look at, there are three reasons, the first of
these, which brings me to, so to summarise. Those phrases are the outline, spoken aloud.
Listen for the lecturer's attitude 态度 as well as the facts. Surprisingly, of course,
it is often claimed and a change of tone all tell you what the speaker thinks — and some
questions ask exactly that.
An example is there to support a point. If you catch the example but not the point, you have the
less useful half; ask yourself "what is this an example of?"
Bahasa Indonesia
Ceramah bergaya kuliah tentang topik studi, dengan satu pembicara utama.
Jangan mencoba menulis semuanya. Tulis bentuknya: topik, lalu setiap poin baru pada baris terpisah
sendiri, dengan tanda strip untuk contoh yang mendukungnya. Catatan Anda harus terlihat seperti kerangka ceramah
tersebut, bukan seperti transkripnya 文字稿.
Dosen menandai struktur: today I want to look at, there are three reasons, the first of
these, which brings me to, so to summarise. Frasa-frasa ini adalah kerangkanya, diucapkan dengan suara keras.
Dengarkan sikap 态度 dosen serta fakta-faktanya. Surprisingly, of course,
it is often claimed dan perubahan nada semua memberi tahu Anda apa yang dipikirkan pembicara — dan beberapa
pertanyaan menanyakan persis hal itu.
Contoh ada untuk mendukung suatu poin. Jika Anda menangkap contohnya tetapi tidak menangkap poinnya, Anda hanya mendapatkan
setengah yang kurang berguna; tanyakan pada diri sendiri "ini adalah contoh dari apa?"
3.5
Training your ear · Melatih Pendengaran
English
Listen once, like the test. Practising with replays trains a skill the test does not measure.
Play a recording once and answer; only then replay it to see what you missed.
Shadowing 跟读 — playing a sentence and saying it back immediately — is the fastest way to
improve both listening and pronunciation, because it forces you to hear the whole sentence, not
the words you already know.
Accents: the test uses speakers from North America and elsewhere. Listen to a range on purpose,
not only to the one you find easiest.
Fifteen focused minutes a day beats two hours on Sunday. Listening is a habit of attention, and
attention is trained by frequency.
Bahasa Indonesia
Dengarkan sekali, seperti saat tes. Berlatih dengan pemutaran ulang melatih keterampilan yang tidak diukur dalam tes.
Putar rekaman sekali dan jawab; baru kemudian putar ulang untuk melihat apa yang terlewat.
Shadowing 跟读 — memutar sebuah kalimat dan mengucapkannya kembali segera — adalah cara tercepat untuk
meningkatkan pendengaran dan pelafalan, karena ini memaksa Anda mendengar seluruh kalimat, bukan
kata-kata yang sudah Anda ketahui.
Aksen: tes menggunakan pembicara dari Amerika Utara dan tempat lain. Dengarkan berbagai aksen dengan sengaja,
tidak hanya pada aksen yang menurut Anda paling mudah.
Lima belas menit fokus sehari lebih baik daripada dua jam pada hari Minggu. Mendengar adalah kebiasaan perhatian, dan
perhatian dilatih melalui frekuensi.
Practise taking notes with your hand while your ears keep working. Most students can do
either but not both, and that is a skill you build in about two weeks.
Use abbreviations you already know: arrows for cause and result, + and -, initials for
long names. Inventing a system on test day costs you the first recording.
If you miss an answer, mark the item, choose the best guess now, and move on. There is no
penalty 扣分 for a wrong answer and a blank scores the same as a wrong one.
⚠ Watch the everyday tasks. Chinese candidates often score well on the academic talk and lose
marks on the short conversation, because school listening practice is almost entirely academic.
Latih menulis catatan dengan tangan sementara telinga terus bekerja. Sebagian besar siswa dapat melakukan
salah satunya, tetapi tidak keduanya, dan itu adalah keterampilan yang Anda bangun dalam sekitar dua minggu.
Gunakan singkatan yang sudah Anda kenal: panah untuk sebab dan hasil, + dan -, inisial untuk
nama panjang. Menciptakan sistem sendiri di hari tes akan merugikan Anda pada rekaman pertama.
Jika Anda melewatkan jawaban, tandai item tersebut, pilih tebakan terbaik sekarang, dan lanjutkan. Tidak ada
penalti 扣分 untuk jawaban yang salah dan kosong bernilai sama dengan jawaban yang salah.
⚠ Waspadai tugas sehari-hari. Kandidat Tiongkok sering mendapat nilai baik pada ceramah akademik dan kehilangan
poin pada percakapan singkat, karena latihan mendengarkan di sekolah hampir sepenuhnya bersifat akademik.
The Writing section and its clock · Bagian Menulis dan Jamnya
English
About 23 minutes, about 12 items, across three kinds of task: Build a Sentence, Write
an Email and Write for an Academic Discussion.
You type everything. There is no handwriting anywhere in the test.
Twenty-three minutes is short, so there is no time for a long plan — but there is always time for
a thirty-second one, and it is the best thirty seconds you will spend.
⚠ The old Integrated Writing task, where you read a passage, heard a lecture and wrote about
both, is gone from the 2026 test. If a practice book teaches it, the book is out of date.
Bahasa Indonesia
Sekitar 23 menit, sekitar 12 item, melintasi tiga jenis tugas: Bangun Kalimat, Tulis
Email dan Menulis untuk Diskusi Akademik.
Anda mengetik semuanya. Tidak ada tulisan tangan di mana pun dalam tes.
Dua puluh tiga menit itu singkat, jadi tidak ada waktu untuk rencana panjang — tetapi selalu ada waktu untuk
rencana tiga puluh detik, dan itu adalah tiga puluh detik terbaik yang akan Anda habiskan.
⚠ Tugas Integrated Writing lama, di mana Anda membaca teks, mendengar ceramah, dan menulis tentang
keduanya, telah hilang dari tes 2026. Jika buku latihan mengajarkan hal itu, buku tersebut sudah usang.
4.2
Build a Sentence · Bangun Kalimat
English
You assemble or complete a sentence so that it is grammatically correct.
Accuracy is the whole point. Nothing is being measured except whether the sentence is right.
The traps are the ones Chinese candidates already know: articles 冠词 (a / the / nothing),
agreement 主谓一致 (the data show, each student has), tense 时态 across a sentence, and
the preposition 介词 that a particular verb takes (depend on, consist of, result
in).
Word order in English is fixed in ways Chinese is not: subject, verb, object; adverbs of frequency
before the main verb; adjectives before the noun in a set order.
Read your finished sentence once, slowly. Most errors here are visible on a second look and
invisible on the first.
Bahasa Indonesia
Anda menyusun atau melengkapi kalimat sehingga kalimat tersebut benar secara tata bahasa.
Akurasi adalah tujuan utamanya. Tidak ada yang diukur kecuali apakah kalimatnya benar.
Perangkap-perangkapnya adalah hal-hal yang sudah diketahui kandidat Tiongkok: artikel 冠词 (a / the / tidak ada),
kesesuaian 主谓一致 (the data show, each student has), tenses 时态 dalam satu kalimat, dan
preposisi 介词 yang diambil oleh kata kerja tertentu (depend on, consist of, result
in).
Urutan kata dalam bahasa Inggris tetap dalam cara yang tidak berlaku dalam bahasa Tionghoa: subjek, kata kerja, objek; adverbia frekuensi
sebelum kata kerja utama; kata sifat sebelum kata benda dalam urutan yang tetap.
Bacalah kalimat yang telah kamu tulis sekali, perlahan-lahan. Kebanyakan kesalahan di sini terlihat pada pembacaan kedua dan
tidak terlihat pada pembacaan pertama.
A short email that does a job: reply to a message, make a request, explain a problem, decline
politely.
Start by deciding who you are writing to and what you want to happen. Everything else
follows from those two answers.
Register 语域 is graded here. To a tutor or an office you are polite and slightly indirect:
I was wondering whether, would it be possible to, I would be grateful if. To a classmate you
are direct and warm.
A good short email has four moves: why you are writing, the detail, what you are
asking for, a close. Four sentences can carry all four.
⚠ Do not open with Dear Sir or Madam when the prompt names the person, and do not sign off
Yours faithfully in a message to a classmate. Getting the register wrong is more visible than
a grammar slip, because it is wrong in every sentence at once.
Answer everything the prompt asks. An email that is beautifully written and leaves out one of
two requests has failed at the job the task set.
Bahasa Indonesia
Email singkat yang fungsional: membalas pesan, mengajukan permintaan, menjelaskan masalah, atau menolak
sopan.
Mulailah dengan memutuskan siapa penerima email dan apa yang ingin terjadi. Segala hal lainnya
akan mengikuti dari dua jawaban tersebut.
Register (gaya bahasa) dinilai di sini. Kepada guru pembimbing atau kantor, gunakan nada sopan dan sedikit tidak langsung:
Saya ingin tahu apakah, apakah memungkinkan untuk, saya akan sangat berterima kasih jika. Kepada teman sekelas, Anda
langsung dan hangat.
Email singkat yang baik memiliki empat bagian: alasan menulis, detailnya, apa yang diminta, dan penutup. Empat kalimat dapat mencakup keempatnya.
meminta**, dekat. Empat kalimat dapat membawa keempatnya.
⚠ Jangan membuka dengan Dear Sir or Madam jika prompt menyebutkan nama orang tersebut, dan jangan tutup dengan
Yours faithfully dalam pesan kepada teman sekelas. Kesalahan register lebih terlihat daripada
kesalahan tata bahasa, karena salah di setiap kalimat sekaligus.
Jawab semua yang diminta oleh prompt. Email yang ditulis dengan indah tetapi melewatkan satu dari
dua permintaan dianggap gagal dalam tugas yang ditetapkan.
Write for an Academic Discussion · Menulis untuk Diskusi Akademik
English
You are shown a professor's question and two students' replies, and you add your own contribution
to the discussion.
This is the task that most resembles real university work, and it is scored on whether you can
join a conversation, not on whether you can write an essay.
A contribution that scores well usually does four things:
States a position clearly, in one sentence.
Gives a reason for it.
Supports the reason with an example, a consequence or a piece of evidence 证据.
Engages with a classmate — agreeing and extending, or disagreeing and saying why.
That fourth move is what separates a good answer from an average one, and it is the one Chinese
candidates leave out most often. I agree with Mei that... but I would add that... is worth more
than another paragraph of your own opinion.
Length: one solid paragraph. You have minutes, not an hour. Write fewer sentences and make
each one carry weight.
⚠ Do not restate the professor's question before you start. It costs you a quarter of your time
and earns nothing: the reader already knows what was asked.
Bahasa Indonesia
Anda diberikan pertanyaan profesor dan dua balasan siswa, lalu menambahkan kontribusi Anda sendiri
ke dalam diskusi.
Ini adalah tugas yang paling mirip dengan pekerjaan universitas nyata, dan nilainya ditentukan berdasarkan kemampuan Anda
berpartisipasi dalam percakapan, bukan berdasarkan kemampuan menulis esai.
Kontribusi yang bernilai tinggi biasanya melakukan empat hal:
Menyatakan posisi dengan jelas, dalam satu kalimat.
Memberikan alasan untuknya.
Mendukung alasan dengan contoh, konsekuensi, atau bukti证据.
Berkomunikasi dengan teman sekelas — setuju dan menambah, atau berbeda pendapat dan menjelaskan alasannya.
Bagian keempat inilah yang membedakan jawaban bagus dari jawaban rata-rata, dan ini adalah bagian yang sering dilewatkan oleh
kandidat Tiongkok. Saya setuju dengan Mei bahwa... tapi saya ingin menambahkan bahwa... bernilai lebih tinggi
daripada paragraf opini Anda sendiri yang lain.
Panjang: satu paragraf solid. Anda memiliki beberapa menit, bukan satu jam. Tulis lebih sedikit kalimat dan buat
setiap kalimat bermakna.
⚠ Jangan mengulang kembali pertanyaan profesor sebelum memulai. Hal itu memakan waktu seperempat dan tidak memberikan nilai apa pun: pembaca sudah tahu apa yang ditanyakan.
dan tidak mendapatkan apa pun: pembaca sudah tahu apa yang ditanyakan.
4.5
What the marker is actually looking at · Apa yang sebenarnya dilihat oleh penilai
English
Across the writing tasks, four things are judged, and they are the same four that any English
marker looks at:
What
What it means here
Task completion 任务完成
you did everything the prompt asked, and nothing it did not
Organisation 结构
a reader can follow your argument without going back
Vocabulary 词汇
precise words, used correctly, not long words used vaguely
Grammar 语法
accurate sentences, with enough variety to be natural
A memorised phrase is a risk, not a shortcut.With the development of society and every
coin has two sides appear in thousands of scripts and add nothing; a marker reads straight past
them and the words you spent on them are gone.
Precision beats decoration.Cost fell sharply after 2015 says more, and scores better, than
there was a considerable diminution in the pecuniary outlay.
A short correct sentence outranks a long broken one. Complexity only earns marks when it is
accurate.
Bahasa Indonesia
Di seluruh tugas menulis, empat hal dinilai, dan itu adalah empat hal yang sama yang dilihat oleh penilai bahasa Inggris manapun:
penanda melihat:
Apa
Artinya di sini
Penyelesaian Tugas (任务完成)
Anda melakukan semua yang diminta prompt, dan tidak melakukan apa yang tidak diminta
Organisasi (结构)
pembaca dapat mengikuti argumen Anda tanpa harus kembali membaca
Kosa Kata (词汇)
kata-kata yang tepat, digunakan dengan benar, bukan kata panjang yang digunakan secara samar
Tata Bahasa (语法)
kalimat yang akurat, dengan cukup variasi agar terdengar alami
Frasa yang hafalan adalah risiko, bukan jalan pintas.With the development of society dan every
coin has two sides muncul di ribuan naskah dan tidak menambah nilai apa pun; penilai langsung melewatinya dan kata-kata yang Anda habiskan untuknya menjadi sia-sia.
mereka dan kata-kata yang Anda habiskan untuknya telah hilang.
Kejelasan mengalahkan dekorasi.Biaya turun tajam setelah 2015 mengatakan lebih banyak, dan skor lebih baik, daripada
terdapat pengurangan signifikan dalam pengeluaran uang.
Kalimat pendek yang benar mengungguli kalimat panjang yang rusak. Kerumitan hanya memberikan nilai jika itu
akurat.
4.6
Exam tips · Tips ujian
English
Type in English every day, not just in practice tests. Typing speed is part of this section
whether you like it or not.
Plan for thirty seconds before the Academic Discussion task: position, reason, example,
whose comment you will answer. Then write straight through.
Leave sixty seconds to read your answer back. Look for articles, plurals and verb endings —
those three account for most of the errors a Chinese candidate makes and can fix.
Practise writing to a person: a tutor, an office, a classmate. An email with no sense of its
reader is the commonest weak answer in this section.
Ketik dalam bahasa Inggris setiap hari, bukan hanya dalam tes latihan. Kecepatan mengetik adalah bagian dari bagian ini
meskipun Anda suka atau tidak.
Rencana selama tiga puluh detik sebelum tugas Pembahasan Akademik: posisi, alasan, contoh,
komentar siapa yang akan Anda jawab. Kemudian tulis langsung.
Sisakan enam puluh detik untuk membaca kembali jawaban Anda. Cari artikel, kata benda jamak, dan akhiran kata kerja —
ketiga hal itu menyumbang sebagian besar kesalahan yang dilakukan oleh kandidat Tiongkok dan dapat diperbaiki.
Berlatih menulis untuk seseorang: seorang tutor, kantor, atau teman sekelas. Email tanpa kesadaran tentang
pembacanya adalah jawaban lemah yang paling umum di bagian ini.
The Speaking section and its clock · Bagian Berbicara dan Jamnya
English
About 8 minutes, about 11 items, in two kinds of task: Listen and Repeat and Take an
Interview.
You speak into a microphone 麦克风 at a computer. There is no examiner in the room, and no one
reacts to what you say — which is exactly what makes it feel strange the first time.
⚠ The old independent and integrated speaking tasks, where you prepared for fifteen seconds and
spoke for forty-five, are gone from the 2026 test.
Eight minutes is short. Almost all of your preparation is therefore about starting quickly,
not about having more to say.
Bahasa Indonesia
Sekitar 8 menit, sekitar 11 item, dalam dua jenis tugas: Dengar dan Ulangi dan **Ambil
yang bereaksi terhadap ucapan Anda — yang persis membuat rasanya aneh saat pertama kali.
⚠ Tugas berbicara independen dan terintegrasi lama, di mana Anda mempersiapkan diri selama十五 detik dan
bereaksi terhadap apa yang Anda katakan — yang persis membuat terasa aneh saat pertama kali.
Delapan menit itu singkat. Oleh karena itu hampir seluruh persiapan Anda tentang memulai dengan cepat,
berbicara selama empat puluh lima menit, sudah hilang dari tes 2026.
Delapan menit itu singkat. Oleh karena itu hampir seluruh persiapan Anda tentang memulai dengan cepat,
Anda mendengar sebuah kalimat dan mengucapkannya kembali.
5.2
Listen and Repeat · Dengar dan Ulangi
English
You hear a sentence and say it back.
This belongs to Speaking, and it is scored on what you say. It is not a listening warm-up.
You are being heard on pronunciation 发音, on stress and on whether you reproduce the
whole sentence, not on inventing anything new.
The skill is holding a whole sentence in your head long enough to say it. That is trainable, and
the training is simple: take any recording, play one sentence, say it back, and lengthen the
sentences as you improve.
Say it at a normal speed. Slowing down to be careful breaks the rhythm 节奏 of the sentence,
and rhythm is part of what is being judged.
If you miss a word, keep going and finish the sentence. A complete sentence with one wrong word
is worth much more than half a perfect one.
Bahasa Indonesia
Anda mendengar sebuah kalimat dan mengulanginya.
Ini termasuk Berbicara, dan nilainya berdasarkan apa yang Anda ucapkan. Ini bukan pemanasan mendengarkan.
Keterampilannya adalah menahan seluruh kalimat di kepala Anda cukup lama untuk mengucapkannya. Itu bisa dilatih, dan
pelatihannya sederhana: ambil rekaman apa pun, putar satu kalimat, ucapkan kembali, dan perpanjang
Keterampilannya adalah menahan satu kalimat utuh di kepala Anda cukup lama untuk mengucapkannya. Itu bisa dilatih, dan
pelatihannya sederhana: ambil rekaman apa pun, putarkan satu kalimat, ulangi, dan perpanjang
dan ritme adalah bagian dari yang dinilai.
Ucapkan dengan kecepatan normal. Memperlambat untuk berhati-hati merusak ritme 节奏 kalimat,
dan ritme adalah bagian dari penilaian.
Jika Anda melupakan sebuah kata, teruslah dan selesaikan kalimatnya. Kalimat lengkap dengan satu kata yang salah
jauh lebih berharga daripada setengah kalimat yang sempurna.
5.3
Take an Interview · Lakukan Wawancara
English
You answer a series of spoken questions, as you would in a conversation.
Answer the question that was asked, first. Then add one reason, and one example. That shape —
answer, reason, example — fits almost every question and starts you speaking within a second.
A silence is worse than an imperfect sentence. Fillers 填充词 that real speakers use — well,
I suppose, that's an interesting one — buy you a moment and sound natural. Long pauses do not.
Do not recite. A memorised answer is audible: the rhythm changes, the vocabulary jumps a
level, and it usually does not quite fit the question. Markers discount it.
If you lose your way mid-sentence, repair it out loud — sorry, what I mean is — and carry
on. That is what fluent speakers do, and it is marked as fluency, not as failure.
Give reasons, not lists. Because the bus is cheaper and I can read on it is one good answer;
three unexplained items is a weaker one.
Bahasa Indonesia
Anda menjawab serangkaian pertanyaan lisan, seperti dalam percakapan biasa.
Jawab pertanyaan yang diajukan, pertama. Kemudian tambahkan satu alasan, dan satu contoh. Bentuk tersebut —
jawaban, alasan, contoh — cocok untuk hampir setiap pertanyaan dan memulai Anda berbicara dalam satu detik.
Keheningan lebih buruk daripada kalimat yang tidak sempurna. Kata pengisi (fillers) yang digunakan oleh penutur asli — well,
I suppose, that's an interesting one — memberi Anda waktu dan terdengar natural. Jeda panjang tidak demikian.
Jangan menghafal. Jawaban hafalan terdengar: ritmenya berubah, kosakatanya melompat ke
tingkat lain, dan biasanya tidak sepenuhnya sesuai dengan pertanyaan. Penilai akan menguranginya.
Jika Anda kehilangan alur di tengah kalimat, perbaiki secara luid — sorry, what I mean is — dan lanjutkan
bicara. Itulah yang dilakukan oleh penutur yang fasih, dan ini dinilai sebagai kelancaran, bukan kegagalan.
Berikan alasan, bukan daftar. Karena bus lebih murah dan saya bisa membaca di dalamnya adalah jawaban yang baik;
tiga poin tanpa penjelasan adalah jawaban yang lebih lemah.
What the marker is actually listening for · Apa yang sebenarnya dicari oleh penilai
English
What
What it means here
Fluency 流利度
you keep going, at a natural speed, without long silences
Pronunciation
you can be understood without effort — not that you sound American
Vocabulary 词汇
the right word for the idea, used naturally
Grammar 语法
accurate, with enough variety to sound like speech rather than a list
Being understood is the standard, not sounding native. An accent 口音 is not an error. Sounds
that change a word's meaning are.
Word stress 重音 matters more than individual sounds. PHOtograph, phoTOgrapher,
photoGRAPHic — the vowels change with the stress, and a listener tracks the stress first.
Sentence stress 句重音 carries meaning: I didn't say she stole it means six different things
depending on which word you lean on.
Practise the sounds that Chinese does not use: final consonants (cost, asked, fifths),
/θ/ and /ð/ (think, this), and the /l/–/n/ and /r/ distinctions. A few minutes a day for a
month is enough to change how easily you are understood.
Bahasa Indonesia
Apa
Artinya di sini
Fluency Kelancaran
Anda terus berbicara, pada kecepatan alami, tanpa jeda lama
Pronunciation Pengucapan
Anda dapat dipahami tanpa usaha — bukan berarti harus terdengar seperti orang Amerika
Vocabulary Kosakata
kata yang tepat untuk ide tersebut, digunakan secara natural
Grammar Tata Bahasa
akurat, dengan variasi yang cukup agar terdengar seperti ucapan, bukan daftar
Dipahami adalah standar, bukan terdengar seperti penutur asli. Aksen bukan kesalahan. Bunyi
yang mengubah makna kata-lah yang menjadi masalah.
Penekanan kata lebih penting daripada bunyi individu. PHOtograph, phoTOgrapher,
photoGRAPHic — vokal berubah sesuai penekanan, dan pendengar menelusuri penekanan terlebih dahulu.
Penekanan kalimat membawa makna: I didn't say she stole it memiliki enam makna berbeda
tergantung pada kata mana yang ditekan.
Latih bunyi yang tidak ada dalam bahasa Tionghoa: konsonan akhir (cost, asked, fifths),
/θ/ dan /ð/ (think, this), serta pembedaan /l/–/n/ dan /r/. Beberapa menit sehari selama
sebulan sudah cukup untuk meningkatkan kemudahan pemahaman Anda.
Speaking with nobody in the room · Bicara tanpa orang di ruangan
English
Record yourself and listen back. It is uncomfortable and it is the single most useful thing
you can do — you will hear pauses, repetitions and unfinished sentences you did not notice.
Practise with a timer running, answering aloud, into a microphone. The format is the hardest
part for most candidates and it is free to rehearse.
Talk to yourself in English during ordinary tasks: describe what you are doing, argue with a
podcast, explain your day. Fluency is built by speaking hours, not by reading about speaking.
⚠ A typed answer always flatters you. When you practise writing what you would say, you get no
hesitation, no silence to fill, and as much time as you like. Speak it aloud instead.
Bahasa Indonesia
Rekam diri Anda dan dengarkan kembali. Ini terasa tidak nyaman dan merupakan hal paling berguna
yang bisa Anda lakukan — Anda akan mendengar jeda, pengulangan, dan kalimat yang belum selesai yang tidak Anda sadari.
Latih dengan timer menyala, jawab lisan, melalui mikrofon. Format ini adalah bagian tersulit
bagi kebanyakan calon peserta dan gratis untuk dilatih.
Berbicara sendiri dalam bahasa Inggris saat melakukan tugas biasa: jelaskan apa yang Anda lakukan, berdebat dengan
podcast, jelaskan hari Anda. Kelancaran dibangun dengan berbicara berjam-jam, bukan dengan membaca tentang berbicara.
⚠ Jawaban yang diketik selalu memanjakan Anda. Saat Anda berlatih menulis apa yang akan Anda katakan, Anda tidak
mengalami keraguan, tidak ada jeda yang harus diisi, dan memiliki waktu sebanyak yang diinginkan. Ucapkan dengan keras.
5.6
Exam tips · Tips ujian
English
Start within one second of the prompt ending. The clock is short, and a slow start costs more
than a poor sentence.
Finish your sentences. An abandoned sentence reads as a breakdown; a simple completed one
does not.
Warm your voice up before the test — read aloud for five minutes. A cold first answer is a
wasted one, and in an eight-minute section you cannot afford it.
Do not try to use difficult vocabulary. Use the right word. Markers reward precision and hear
straight through decoration.
Mulai dalam hitungan satu detik setelah prompt berakhir. Waktu sangat terbatas, dan awal yang lambat biaya lebih
besar daripada kalimat yang kurang baik.
Selesaikan kalimat Anda. Kalimat yang terbengkalai dibaca sebagai ketidakmampuan; kalimat sederhana yang
lengkap tidak demikian.
Panaskan suara Anda sebelum tes — bacalah dengan keras selama lima menit. Jawaban pertama yang dingin adalah
pemborosan, dan dalam bagian delapan menit Anda tidak bisa membiarkannya.
Jangan mencoba menggunakan kosakata sulit. Gunakan kata yang tepat. Penilai menghargai presisi dan mendengar
langsung melewati hiasan kata.
Pick one and the site follows you — notes, papers, videos and practice all open on it. · Pilih satu dan situs mengikuti Anda — catatan, kertas, video, dan latihan semua terbuka di sana.
Type to search notes, lessons, code, vocabulary and past-paper questions across every subject. · Ketik untuk mencari catatan, pelajaran, kode, kosakata, dan pertanyaan soal lama di setiap mata pelajaran.
