There's good news for students preparing to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). ETS, the creator of TOEFL, has launched a free service whereby test takers can now download sample questions taken from the actual test from the website at no extra cost. The facility also allows test takers to answer the questions and check their answers online.

The TOEFL iBT is the international test that measures students' grasp of the English language and qualifies them for admissons to foriegn universities (over 6,000 universities in 110 countries use TOEFL scores as a basis for admission). The new facility will enable students to download sample questions from all four English language skill areas -- listening, reading, speaking and writing.

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The information is located under the "Test Preparation" and "Test Content" tabs of the website (www.ets.org/toefl), and is in addition to the free TOEFL iBT Sampler that is available when a test taker registers for the test.

Speaking about the development, Philip Tabbiner, Senior Vice President of ETS Global, said, "The test measures an integrated set of English skills and the free practice site offers real-life examples of conversations, lectures, reading passages, speaking and writing questions and spoken and written responses."