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Corpus analysis reveals that 1/3 of the words in all parts of every TOEIC test are NOT common words in general English.
TOEIC versus General English
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Students who study with traditional 4-skills textbooks and readers will not develop fluency for 33% of the High-Frequency words that commonly occur on every TOEIC.
What does this mean?
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312,500 words (25%) are from actual TOEIC tests
937,500 words (75%) are from high quality practice tests
Our TOEIC Corpus Analysis
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Our TOEIC Corpus Analysis
1,250,000 total words
14,652 different words
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Just 6,480 different words constitute 99% of all
word occurrences.
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Our TOEIC Corpus Analysis
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982 different words constitute 90% of all word occurrences.
These 982 words are the absolutely essential Super-High-Frequency
words of TOEIC.
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Our TOEIC Corpus Analysis
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Examples: letters “A” and “G€35
TOEIC GeneralA a a
ability abandonable abilityaboard ableabout aboutabove aboveabroad abroadabsence absenceabsent absoluteabsolutely absolutelyabstract absorbaccept abuseacceptable academicacceptance accept
TOEIC GeneralG gain gain
gallery gallgallon + + gamegame gapgarage garagegarbage gardengarden gasgardener gastricgas gategasoline gathergate gazegather geargender genegeneral general
27% of high frequency ‘A’ words are exclusive
to TOEIC
33% of high frequency ‘G’ words are exclusive
to TOEIC
Frequent only in the TOEIC corpus.Frequent only in the General corpus.
Note: The general corpus used for comparison contains one billion words from all genres.
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TOEIC is an Item Response Theory Proficiency Test –not an English ability diagnostic test.
Students are not scored for their English language ability.
Students are scored along a bell-curve against the relative abilities of other students.
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TOEIC: Esoteric Facts 1
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Without difficult Items, Education Testing Service “ETS,” would be unable to maintain its bell-curve and generate accurate scores.
ETS uses difficult vocabulary and third or fourth definitions to create difficult Items.
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TOEIC: Esoteric Facts 2
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ETS must regularly recycle TOEIC questions or their IRT scoring system will not work.
New TOEIC questions are written by a small team with low turnover amongst the members.
TOEIC high-frequency vocabularyis regular and predictable.
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TOEIC: Esoteric Facts 3
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ETS has never, and likely will never, issue a vocabulary guide for any of its major tests including: TOEIC, TOEFL, SAT and GRE.
Why?Because obscure vocabulary is the most reliable way for the test authors to create the difficult questions that are required to generate accurate scores along a bell curve.
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TOEIC: Esoteric Facts 4
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High Difficulty (Not well-known)
A scatter plot of TOEIC vocabulary
More Frequent
Less Frequent
Low Difficulty (Well-known)
Each dot represents one high frequency word in the TOEIC domain Difficulty statistics are calculated by Lexxica’s patented technical system
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Patented test identifies each user’s known and unknown TOEIC words
Student does not need to learn
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fill upV-Check finds MYstarting point!
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Patented test identifies each user’s known and unknown TOEIC words
Student does not need to learn
these words for TOEIC.
Student already knows these TOEIC words.
Student knows these words, but does not
need them for TOEIC.
Student does not know these words and needs to learn them for TOEIC.With Word Engine, no time
is wasted studying words that are already known.
University studies show that Word Engine quickly
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Quiz Generator allows teachers to confirm that students are retaining their new TOEIC vocabulary
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