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TOEFL Build a Sentence: how a response is checked

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What the Build a Sentence task asks for, how it is scored, and what the checker reports back on a response to it.

The figures

Listed time
~6 min
Scoring
Machine-scored against word order. The 2026 specification publishes a maximum of 1 raw point per item; scoring an item as strictly correct or incorrect is Reach120’s reading of that allocation, not an ETS statement.
Length
There is no length to manage — the words are given, and the task is to arrange 6–12 of them into one correct sentence.
Dimensions reported
Content, Organization, Language, Engagement

How these figures were arrived at

Each dimension is scored 0–5, the scale ETS publishes for the open-response writing tasks. Scoring is automated. The rater reads the prompt and your response, scores each dimension, and states the rationale for each score; a second pass then produces the written analysis. The band shown next to a single response is a Reach120 estimate. ETS has published no method for combining task rubric scores into a section band, so nothing here is a conversion of one into the other.

Sources last checked 2026-08-06.

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