In short. The scores shown on Erosophia are unofficial estimates. Only a test taken with ETS gives an official score. Erosophia is not affiliated with ETS. This page explains how each score is calculated, what follows ETS's publications and what cannot.
Why no website can reproduce the official score exactly
- On the TOEIC® Listening and Reading test, ETS converts the number of correct answers with a table specific to each test form, which it does not publish [1].
- ETS measures the difficulty of its questions on test takers [3]. Erosophia's questions have not been measured that way.
- On the TOEIC® Speaking and Writing test, responses are scored by ETS-certified human raters [4]. On Erosophia, an artificial intelligence scores the responses.
- Even on the official test, the standard error of measurement published by ETS is about 25 points per Listening or Reading section [2], about 11 points in Speaking and 15 in Writing [4].
Listening & Reading, linear version (200 questions)
- Format: the same as the official test: 200 questions in 7 parts, 100 Listening questions (Parts 1–4, about 45 minutes) and 100 Reading questions (Parts 5–7, 75 minutes) [1].
- Scale: 5 to 495 per section, 10 to 990 in total, in steps of 5, as on the real test [1]. Wrong answers are not penalised.
- Conversion: without an official table, Erosophia uses a proportional conversion: (number of correct answers ÷ 100) × 495, rounded to the nearest multiple of 5 (minimum 5).
- What this means for you: the Listening C1 threshold (490 out of 495) requires at least 99 correct answers out of 100 here.
Listening & Reading, adaptive version (45 + 45 questions)
- Structure: the same as ETS's adaptive version. A 25-question Unit 1, the same for everyone, then a 20-question Unit 2 that is more accessible or more demanding depending on your Unit 1 result. Reading lasts 23 + 14 minutes [3].
- Routing: on Erosophia, the more demanding Unit 2 is given from 17 correct answers out of 25. ETS also routes on the number of correct answers in Unit 1, without publishing its threshold [3].
- Score: like ETS, Erosophia maps the score onto the corresponding linear test. The difficulty of Erosophia's questions was estimated by two independent reviewers, not measured on test takers, so the estimate is less precise than for the linear version. ETS also reports that its own adaptive version is slightly less reliable than the linear one [3].
- What this means for you: with the more accessible Unit 2, the score stays below B2. The Listening C1 level is only reached with 45 correct answers out of 45.
Speaking & Writing
- Tasks and timing: the same as the official test: 11 Speaking questions (about 20 minutes) and 8 Writing questions (about 1 hour) [4].
- Scoring each response: an AI scores the response against criteria modelled on the rubrics published by ETS. In the full tests and part trainers, the score is shown on the TOEIC® test scale for this task: 0 to 3 for Speaking questions 1 to 10 and Writing questions 1 to 5, 0 to 4 for Writing questions 6 and 7, 0 to 5 for the last question of each test (Speaking question 11, Writing question 8) [4].
- Speaking: the AI scores the automatic transcript of your recording. It cannot hear your pronunciation or intonation: the Pronunciation mark, inferred from the transcript, is only a rough guide. In the full tests and part trainers, a response whose transcript has lost most of the recording is not scored, and the results page says so.
- Score out of 200: the marks are converted with a table calibrated by Erosophia on reference responses. In Speaking, the estimate does not go above 180 out of 200, the C1 threshold: ETS level 8 (190-200) requires pronunciation, intonation and stress that are highly intelligible at all times [6], which a transcript cannot show; at that level Erosophia's assessment cannot always tell a strong B2 from a C1. In Writing, it can reach 200: as in ETS's proficiency descriptors, the essay is what separates B2 from C1, and its top mark is reserved for well-developed essays written in natural, precise English [6]. ETS reports no combined Speaking + Writing score, so the results page shows the two scores separately, each with the matching ETS proficiency level (Speaking 1 to 8, Writing 1 to 9) [4].
CEFR levels
The level shown for each skill follows the minimum scores published by ETS [5]. ETS points out that these are guidelines, not strict cut scores.
| Skill | A1 | A2 | B1 | B2 | C1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listening (/495) | 60 | 110 | 275 | 400 | 490 |
| Reading (/495) | 60 | 115 | 275 | 385 | 455 |
| Speaking (/200) | 50 | 90 | 120 | 160 | 180 |
| Writing (/200) | 30 | 70 | 120 | 150 | 180 |
When two skills are assessed together, Erosophia shows the lower of the two levels.
Official sources
- ETS, TOEIC Listening and Reading Test — Examinee Handbook
- ETS, TOEIC Listening and Reading — Score User Guide
- ETS, Design and Development of the TOEIC Listening and Reading Multistage Adaptive Test
- ETS, TOEIC Speaking and Writing — Score User Guide
- ETS, Mapping the TOEIC Tests on the CEFR
- ETS, TOEIC Speaking and Writing — Score Descriptors
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