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TOEIC TOEIC (Test of English for Internnational Communication) has been used by institutions, companies, and government agencies worldwide to measure the everyday English skills of people working in an international environment. The Test of International English for Communication (TOEIC) is an English test for professionals who do not have that language as their mother tongue. Measure the skills and competencies of workers in their work environment. Specifically, it is designed to assess the knowledge of English in a professional environment. Like the TOEFL and the GRE, this test has been done by ETS (Educational Testing Service), a US company based in Princeton (New Jersey) since 1979. Worldwide, 7 million TOEIC exams are taken each year, being the most used professional English test in the world. Consists in: Listening Part I: 10 questions related to photographs, 4 options per photograph (previously there were 20). Part II: It stays the same, 30 questions with 3 answers each. Part III: Group of questions about the same short conversation (previously there were 20 brief conversations with one question per conversation). Part IV: It remains the same, several questions about different short exposures.