TOEFL (Test of English as a foreign language) is the American testing system for proving your level of English language, acknowledged in most of the countries in the world. TOEFL has been developed and is managed by Educational Testing Service American Company (ETS). ETS is nongovernmental organization that is located in Princeton, state New-Jersey. The main aim of TOEFL is to estimate level of English of those for whom English is not their native language. TOEFL has been developed for American and Canadian colleges and universities to have an opportunity to evaluate professional English level of foreign students who wish to study in USA or Canada. Read more >>

The list below contains the most common types of essays found in an independent writing task. After you have read your essay question and interpreted it, the next step is for you to decide what kind of essay you will need to organize and write. Determining the type of essay will help you write your thesis statement, decide how many body paragraphs are needed, know which transitions are appropriate to use, and much more.

There are two tasks in the Writing section of the TOEFL iBT: an Integrated Writing Task and an Independent Writing Task. The Integrated Writing task comes first because it involves some listening, and when you are taking the real TOEFL iBT you will wear your headphones. When you are finished with the Integrated Writing Task, you will be free to take your headphones off to work on the Independent Writing Task.