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Speaking Scoring Criteria of Next Generation iBT TOEFL Test
In the Speaking section, you will receive a score of 0 through 5; this score of 0 through then be converted to a scaled score out of 30. The criteria for Speaking scores of 0 through 4 are listed below.
4
ANSWER TO QUESTION
The student answers the question thoroughly.
COMPREHENSIBILITY
The student can be understood completely.
ORGANIZATION
The student's response is well organized and developed.
FLUENCY
The student's speech is generally fluent.
PRONUNCIATION
The student has generally good pronunciation.
GRAMMAR
The student uses advanced grammatical structure with a high degree of accuracy.
VOCABULARY
The student uses advanced vocabulary with a high degree of accuracy.
3
ANSWER TO QUESTION
The student answers the questions adequately but not thoroughly.
COMPREHENSIBILITY
The student can generally be understood.
ORGANIZATION
The student's response is organized basically and is not thoroughly developed.
FLUENCY
The student's speech is generally fluent, with minor problems.
PRONUNCIATION
The student has generally good pronunciation, with minor problems.
GRAMMAR
The student uses either accurate easier grammatical structures or more advanced grammatical structures with some errors.
VOCABULARY
The student uses either accurate easier vocabulary or more advanced vocabulary with some errors.
2
ANSWER TO QUESTION
The student discusses information from the task but does not answer the question directly.
COMPREHENSIBILITY
The student is not always intelligible inaccurate points.
ORGANIZATION
The students response is not clearly organized am is incomplete or contains some inaccurate points.
FLUENCY
The student's speech is not very fluent and has a number of problems.
PRONUNCIATION
The students pronunciation is not very clear, with a number of problems.
GRAMMAR
The student has a number of errors in grammar or uses only very basic grammar fairly accurately.
VOCABULARY
The student has a number of errors in vocabulary or uses only very basic vocabulary fairly accurately.
1
ANSWER TO QUESTION
The student's response is only slightly related to the topic.
COMPREHENSIBILITY
The student is only occasionally intelligible.
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