TOEFL Listening Practice Test

This video is contains 17 TOEFL listening practice questions for you to use to study for the TOEFL IBT exam. TOEFL listening can be a little difficult to study so we hope these free practice questions help you get a great TOEFL score. This TOEFL listening practice video is over 20 minutes long so make sure you clear enough study time to work through it. In this video (and on the TOEFL exam) the audio plays first, only once, and then you see the questions after. You cannot see the questions while you listen. This is important, because it means you need to listen carefully and take notes!

The TOEFL listening section contains 4 to 6 lectures with 6 questions each, and 2 or 3 conversations with 5 questions each. The TOEFL Listening section has six audio tracks. Two of the audio tracks are conversations related to school life in the United States. Two additional tracks are short academic lectures from professors. And the remaining two tracks are “classroom discussions”; these are basically lectures with student participation. Each audio track also comes with its own question sets. In rare instances, you’ll get one extra conversation, one extra lecture, and one extra discussion. This will happen if you get an extended experimental TOEFL Listening section. To do well on the listening section, it’s important to be familiar with unrehearsed speech and natural conversation.

Get ready for the TOEFL!

[mermoqqueijo]

Hey i just like to thank you guys, i scored 100 on toefl, more than i needed to be honest and i studied through your channel and website :)

[胡伦-le]

As my first time for toelf listening, this video provide a good beginning for my exam preparation. Thanks a lot. Hope you all achieve your score goal on toelf. Good luck.

[VintemaisDezrafa]

Transcription First

Professor: So, Aaron, in your e-mail you said you wanted to talk about the exam.
ARIN: Yeah, I´ve just never taken a class with so many diferente readings. I´ve managed to keep up with all the assignments, but´i´m not sure, how do... How do..
Professor: ... How do review everything?
ARIN : Yeah, in other classes I´ve had, there´s usually just one book to review, not three diferente books, plus, all those other text excerpts and vídeos.
Professor : well, developmental psychology is a little more involved compared to some other subjects, you´ve looked at the study guide, I assume.
ARIN : kind of, yes.. I mean, I haven´t gone through the whole thing yet, I´m still just doing the on the firs page.
Professor: You haven´t looked at the second page of the study guide at all yet?
ARIN : no, I´ve barely had time to go back over the first two readings from the first page
Professor: well, no wonder you´re so confused about Where to start, let me show you a copy of the study guide.
Look here, see what it says at the top of the page, this first page os just a list of all the texts and vídeos that´ll be on the teste. The actual guide is on the second page, see?
ARIN: Oh, wow, and says what I need too remember from each Reading
Professor: aha, so for example, from the intro to adolescente psychology, you Only need to review the developmental stages from chapter two.
ARIN: And it looks like I need to know everything from the main textbook, the big one
Professor: right, you´ll want to review all the core concepts in the first four chapters of development through lifespan. Well, almost all, I forgot to mention this on the study guide but the test really go int Freud stages of development, those are a little outdated compared to newer research.
ARIN: but we´re still going over all Piaget developmental stages for children, right ?
Professor: exactly and notice that you Only need to review
Half of the supplemental readings, just the one that focus on
Adult psychological development and the vídeo on Alzheimer´s disease. The brain disorder and elderly people. See, I marked it right here.

ARIN: ok, I feel like I understand a lot better now, I.... I guess I should have looked at the second page, huh

Professor: yeah, and I actually did mention that in class, you know, you really should have checked with your classmates before coming to me.

ARIN: well, I´ve Always studied alone before

Professor: I don´t think students should be studying solo. In any class. It´s Always better to study with a partner or a group . It can really help avoid confusion
ARIN: yeah, I´ve really had trouble keeping up in
Class so far, I think I´ll join the class study group
In the library Tonight.

Professor: yes, please do, your classmates can probably help you more than I could. You know, When it comes to organizing your notes, getting together a good study strategy that sort of thing

[claracg]

Very helpful. I have good comprehension skills but the volume of information in each excerpt makes it sometimes challenging to take notes WHILE listening to the whole thing. I have been practising consistently (mostly with a French prep book) for a few days and went from an 18 to a 28 for the listening section! It's all in the practice peeps. Good luck to all my fellow TOEFL candidates :D

[humagnett]

This is very useful tool! I got 14/17 now, and I decided to try hard to get perfect!!

[giacomoferrari]

Please add "water" to "erosion" in the fourth option of question 6, otherwise it is ambiguous: if you just say "erosion", it is of any sort and it is the same as "other types of erosion" in option 1. I wouldn't mind, if it hadn't messed up my score ;)
Thank you for the video, though!

[mochichan]

I got 13/17 gosh I was quite good though I almost fall asleep in the middle. Math and science is really not my thing

[emnaabassi]

I got 11/17 :/ The second lecture was so boring to me it didn't give the urge to listen at all

[nonononova]

i did 13/17. Lecture about gravity was more interesting than one about ereosion.

[TheKillingTreeTT]

My test is tomorrow and while I am almost at C2 level I scored 15/17. This erosion lecture was rather detailed. I am not quite sure that answer C to question 16 about Aristotle and the greek scientists is correct though. "[...] first real scientific proof that the earth was round." does not sound like the correct answer. For me there was no hint at real scientific proofs provided by said scientists. Anyway, I wanted to also thank Magoosh for providing these videos.

[aydnduzgun]

I got 16 out of 17 just with listening, i mean without taking notes. Thank you for sharing this test with us.

[David-jxjk]

From the conversation in first recording, . I think of something happened to me when I was in university :

I ever had a vacation during a semester, so I missed classes. I approached the professor of a course, he said : " You study yourself first, and then go getting classmates' help in case if you're still not ok, and then come back to me if classmate's help is still not ok to you "

[chenleo]

Got a perfect score on this. It boosts my confidence😁

[ABitWiseGuy]

As a native English speaker from Australia I understood about 40% of what that girl in the red said.. Goodluck ESL peeps you're gonna need it.

[sscapture]

Thank you for the video and answers! But i just cant understand why "had to be round" is equal to "proof"! I selected A in that question

[armandofernandez]

Hi guys, this lesson has been really useful for me. It's a pity that it is the only one listening practice lesson on this channel. well you know I wish there were more practice videos like these.

[lelinh]

thank you for making such qualified video with detail explanations

[Rod]

9/17. The second lecture was so dull it took me out of concentration.

[gustavosolis]

Thanks so much for the video! I need to practice more listening! So i proposed to listen to have much more experience!!!! :D i'm inspired now!

[josephlee]

I'm a Korean who has lived in the US all my life, but was still kinda curious how hard the TOEFL was. It seems as long as you take notes, there is no reason a native speaker scores less than a 110 in my opinion