While the TOEIC test has been adopted widely by companies and universities, there has also been a growing demands among junior and senior high schools, whose English skills are either at the beginner or intermediate level, to introduce an easier test for assessing more basic everyday communication skills.
The TOEIC Bridge is a test developed by ETS to meet this demand by serving as a "bridge" to the TOEIC test. The TOEIC Bridge is designed to assess basic English communication skills while maintaining the same numerical score measurement system and the same level of credibility as the TOEIC test. The TOEIC Bridge is beginning to be accepted widely as the most suitable test for those in the early learning stages and as a step to acquiring a higher level of proficiency required for universities and the business world.
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The TOEIC Bridge is suitable for the following people:
- Junior high and senior high school students
- University, junior college, and vocational school students
- The general public
The TOEIC Bridge is a paper-and-pencil, multiple-choice assessment. There are two separately timed sections of 50 questions each
| Section I: Listening |
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| Examinees listen to a variety of questions and short conversations recorded in English, then answer questions based on what they heard. |
| Section II: Reading |
| Examinees read a variety of materials and respond at their own pace to questions based on the content. |
| Part | Name of each part | Number of questions |
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| Listening Section (25 minutes) | ||
| 1 | Photographs | 15 |
| 2 | Question-Response | 20 |
| 3 | Short Conversations and Short Talks | 15 |
| Reading Section (35 minutes) | ||
| 4 | Incomplete Sentences | 30 |
| 5 | Reading Comprehension | 20 |
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The test lasts approximately 1 hour.
| Examinees have : | 25 minutes for Section I 35 minutes for Section II |
4,200 JPY (200 JPY consumption tax included)
