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| How to Appeal a TOEFL Result? | Your Test of English as a Foreign Language or TOEFL score can decide whether or not you are accepted at an English-speaking university. The majority of English-speaking universities need a score of at least 213 for admission. Sometimes you can request for the exacting university's admission decision if you feel that your TOEFL score does not reproduce your true spoken or written aptitude in English and a university has denied you admission based only on your TOEFL result.
1. Establish your exact TOEFL score and the TOEFL score prerequisite of the university to which you were denied admittance.
2. Distinguish that if you were denied admission based only on the results of your TOEFL exam, a number of universities just need that you retake the TOEFL exam ahead of admittance.
3. Examine the university's admission policies to decide whether you will be allowed to request your disagreement of admission based on a TOEFL score. A number of universities, for instance, administer an alternate and supplementary English test or have extra English course requirements for students who have not met the minimum TOEFL standard.
4. Think about applying to schools that let you to request the TOEFL test as an admissions requirement. A number of American schools will let you to write a letter, stating that your English is strong enough that you do not have to take the TOEFL exam to demonstrate proficiency. You will need to send supporting documentation together with your letter.
Tips for you
1. It may be easier to take the TOEFL once more, rather than appealing its results.
2. Always go through the appropriate channels while communicating with a university. Determine whether the university has an admissions evaluation committee or an a ppeals board, as these should be the groups to whom you communicate your appeal.
3. You cannot appeal your TOEFL score to the ETS, which administers the exam, except under extraordinary circumstances. Instead, you must appeal to individual universities.
4. Be certain that you know precisely why you have been denied admission as a university may have denied you admission for reasons other than your TOEFL score.
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