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TOEFL 2026 — the most practiced Listening questions, August 2026

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Reach120 research teamAugust 31, 20263 min read

TOEFL 2026 — the most practiced Listening questions, August 2026

Quick answerThe Listening questions Reach120 learners actually worked through in August 2026, ranked from our own practice record, with each question and its context in full.

In this guide

How this list was measured
Listening stimuli
About the verification marks

How this list was measured

Every entry below is ranked by the number of different Reach120 learners who submitted an answer to it during August 2026 — not by how often the question was shown, and not by anything anyone chose to feature. One learner practicing the same question repeatedly counts once.

A question needs at least 3 different learners to appear at all, a task type needs at least 5 such questions before it is ranked, and Listening needs at least 10 learners in the month before this post is generated.

At most 8 questions per task type are listed.

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Two things are removed before anything is counted, so that nothing in this order was put there by us: Reach120's own accounts — staff, test users and the internal harnesses that exercise the product — and the fallback questions the app hands out when there is no question bank to draw from, which measure our own placement rather than anybody's choice.

The exact learner counts are deliberately not published — the order is the finding, the headcount is not. This ranking measures practice, not opinion: it is not a vote and it is not a quality judgement by us or by ETS. Where a question has separately been rated by enough learners or tutors to carry a verification mark, that mark is shown next to it and explained at the end.

Try it — one real Listening item

This recording and question come from the same bank Reach120 learners practice against. Read the transcript or play the audio, then answer — Listening is free and unlimited on every account.

A Missing Scholarship Document

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Student: I got an email saying my scholarship is on hold because a document is missing. I thought I submitted everything.
Coordinator: Let me look. Yes, we have your application and transcript, but the financial verification form hasn't come through.
Student: I emailed that two weeks ago.
Coordinator: Emailed attachments sometimes don't attach to the file correctly. The safest way is to upload it through the scholarship portal directly.
Student: Is it too late? The email mentioned a deadline.
Coordinator: The hard deadline is Friday. If you upload it today, you're fine, and the hold lifts once we verify it, usually within a day.
Student: Okay, I'll do it right now to be safe.
Coordinator: Good plan. Keep the confirmation number the portal gives you, just in case.

Why does the coordinator recommend using the portal instead of email?

A.Because email costs a processing fee
B.Because the portal waives the deadline
C.Because emailed attachments sometimes fail to attach to the file
D.Because the email system is being shut down