According to reports, ETS has been ordered to pay a penalty to a test taker for unclear identification requirements. www.siasat.com/toefl-ordere...

I suppose it doesn't really matter anymore, but I've been hearing about a lot of big changes from TOEFL speaking score reviews. Plus or minus two points seems common now. It could be worth asking if score review will even be possible with the new test, which is supposed to be scored wholly by AI.

Starting in January, score users will no longer get paper TOEFL score reports. www.toeflresources.com/blog/no-pape...

Pearson has been fined quite a lot of money by OFQUAL for issues related to cheating on the PTE, and the timeliness of their reporting of these issues to regulators. www.toeflresources.com/blog/pearson...

The official FAQ for the IELTS scoring screwup has been updated. We now know exactly how many tests were affected. www.ieltsresultsupport.org/hc/en-gb/art...

Just when you thought it was all going to blow over, the IELTS marking screwup has hit the right wing press.

The IELTS partners are retroactively adjusting test scores from as far back as 2023. www.toeflresources.com/blog/more-on...

757 more layoffs at the Educational Testing Service. Just in time for the holiday season. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Says the University of Oxford: "Changes to the TOEFL iBT test are being introduced on 21 January 2026. The University will not accept TOEFL tests taken from that date to meet the English language condition until a review of the revised test has been completed."

City & Guilds has sold its assessment business to PeopleCert. feweek.co.uk/city-guilds-...

There is now a technical manual for the new TOEFL test. rr.ets.org/index.php/et...

The NABP is set to review whether or not foreign trained pharmacists should be required to submit TOEFL scores. www.toeflresources.com/blog/nabp-ta...

The University of Cambridge (undergraduate) will not accept TOEFL scores from tests taken after December 31, 2025. Had I been advising the TOEFL team (imagine that) I would have insisted on the publication of research on the validity of the test. www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply/before...

The 5th request for information re: the HOELT is a shocker. It seems the Home Office is interested in the possibility of the HOELT being primarily an at-home test.

ETS seems to have launched an "Official AI learning platform" for TOEFL prep. It costs $1500 for a year's membership. But weird comments coming out of China, as apparently ETS China denies that they are associated with it. How strange. www.tuofu120.com

Widescale cheating on the IELTS in Bangladesh, apparently. www.daily-sun.com/post/825063

ETS funded a three year study to determine the suitability of TOEFL Essentials for migration to Australia. The study was not published. arts.unimelb.edu.au/language-tes...

At some point in the past three weeks, Duolingo updated its score comparison page to compare DET and TOEFL subscores. englishtest.duolingo.com/scores