Reach120 vs The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached
It is the first thing anyone finds and it should be, so this page argues the opposite of what a comparison page usually argues: take these first, and read the rest of this set afterwards. The genuinely useful question is not which is better but what happens next — the free official supply is exactly three items deep and does not refill, and the evening it runs out is the evening a practice product starts to matter. This page separates them on the axes you can actually check, and says where its own evidence runs out.
Who wrote this, and how to read it
Read on 2026-08-24, without an account, buying nothing and accessing no paywalled surface. Free allowances and prices change faster than pages like this one do, so treat every figure as dated evidence rather than a current quote.
- There is no score, no rating and no verdict. There are no star ratings in this page or in its structured data — Reach120 has no published review corpus, so a rating would be a number we made up.
- What The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests does better is stated plainly, because a comparison that finds nothing good in the other product is an advertisement.
- Reach120 prices are not typed on this page. The pricing page is the only place they are stated, so there is one thing to keep correct rather than fourteen.
Reach120 and The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests, side by side
The spine of this table is the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, because coverage is the one axis with checkable evidence: either a public page names the task or it does not. Everything else — free access, metering, price, scoring transparency — is quoted.
| 2026 task type | Reach120 | The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests |
|---|---|---|
| Build a SentenceWriting | Runs it here | No readable evidence |
| Write an EmailWriting | Runs it here | No readable evidence |
| Academic DiscussionWriting | Runs it here | No readable evidence |
| Listen & RepeatSpeaking | Runs it here | No readable evidence |
| Take an InterviewSpeaking | Runs it here | No readable evidence |
| Complete the WordsReading | Runs it here | No readable evidence |
How the The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests column was filled: No cell is filled here, and it would be a category error to fill one. The six task types in this table are defined BY the test maker; scoring the definer against a spine built from third-party pages measures nothing. The preparation page we read is a catalogue of products rather than a syllabus, and it names no individual task type — but that is a fact about that page’s job, not about coverage, and the comparison page for this row prints no coverage table rather than a row of blanks.
| What you are comparing | Reach120 | The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests |
|---|---|---|
| Free access | Reading, Listening and Build a Sentence practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email and Write for an Academic Discussion give a free account 3 AI-scored writing responses to start, then one more each day, up to 10 in total; Take an Interview has 3 AI-scored Take an Interview responses in total, for the life of the account; Listen & Repeat has 8 on the account, for life. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account. | Exactly three items, each tile marked "Free" with a "TRY IT NOW!" button and no payment step: an "Interactive Sample", "Full-Length Practice Test 1" and "Full-Length Practice Test 2". The two full-length tests are versioned to the current exam in their own addresses — /prepare/sample-test-jan-2026-1.html and -2.html — so what is free here is current material rather than an archive. The structural fact worth more than any of the three: the supply is FIXED. There is no credit meter, no expiry and no replenishment, so the free tier ends when you have sat those tests and it does not refill. |
| How AI use is metered | The free tier is metered by measured cost — the three tasks that spend a model on your own words carry daily allowances, Writing and Speaking counted separately because an Interview costs multiples of an essay. A paid pass carries a stated fair-use ceiling rather than an open-ended promise. | Nothing is metered and nothing needs to be, because nothing renews. What the free material does not include is an automated score for your own Speaking or Writing response, which is the axis every metered product in this set is metering. |
| Price, as their page stated it | Exam passes are one-time and do not auto-renew; the current prices are on the pricing page, which this page reads rather than restates. | Reach120 does not publish the test maker’s prices, fees or product SKUs anywhere — not as a figure, not as a range, not as a comparison anchor and not converted into another currency. That rule binds this page more tightly than most, because the preparation page we read carries paid product tiles beside the free ones: the figures were there and are withheld deliberately, not missed. Setting a free official item against a paid official item is still the test maker’s pricing doing our selling, so this page states what is free, states that other things on that page are not, and sends you to read the rest at the source. |
| Scoring transparency | How a score is produced, and what the language model is and is not allowed to do with it, is published at /methodology. No scorer-versus-human agreement figure is published: the internal benchmark corpus is too small to publish as an accuracy claim. | The test maker is the only party in this set that can publish scoring documentation as fact rather than as a description, and it does — the specifications and the scoring guides are its own. That is a transparency position no third party here can occupy, Reach120 included. What the free material does not do is score a response you write or speak, so there is no automated grading of yours to be transparent about. Reach120 publishes no agreement figure either — its benchmark corpus is too small to publish one honestly — and does publish how a score is produced, at /methodology. |
Every The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests cell above is a sentence their own public page stated, read on 2026-08-24. Prices and free allowances move; check the source before you buy. Reach120's own prices are not typed here — the pricing page is the only place they are stated.
What The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests does better
It is the exam, written by the people who write the exam, and nothing in this set substitutes for that — Reach120 least of all, since Reach120 builds from the published specifications and says so. Two full-length tests and an interactive sample cost nothing, need no account and settle any format question a third party could only guess at. The sample test is stated to be accessible to screen readers, which almost nothing else here states at all. The honest recommendation on this page is to take these first: any product that is worth paying for is worth paying for after you have used the free official material, not instead of it.
Where Reach120 is different
They are complements with a seam between them, and the seam is where Reach120 lives. Official free material is finite, authoritative and unscored on the two sections people actually lose marks on: nothing in it returns an evaluation of your own Speaking or Writing response. Reach120 is unlimited on Reading and Listening, publishes its questions, answer keys, transcripts and sample responses in the page itself with no account, scores Writing and Speaking against the rubric and publishes how at /methodology. It is independent of the test maker, holds no licence and claims no relationship of any kind — which is a limitation of Reach120 rather than a feature, and the reason the honest order is official material first.
Different is not better in the abstract. The difference matters only if it matches what you are short of — time, money, feedback, or lessons.
Where Reach120 is weaker, in its own words: This page makes no case for its own product over the others. Where Reach120 is weaker: there are no taught video lessons, no human tutor review of a response, no coverage of any exam other than the TOEFL test, fewer free AI-scored submissions a day than PrepEx states, and no published scorer-versus-human agreement figure — the internal benchmark corpus is too small to publish as an accuracy claim, so it is not published.
Which one to choose
- Choose The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests if what it does better is what you are short of. That sentence is above, unedited, and it is the whole reason this section can be brief.
- Choose Reach120 if you want to read the practice material and its answers before creating anything, and you want the four sections in one place with the method published.
- Choose both if the budget allows. They are not mutually exclusive, and nobody preparing for an exam owes one vendor loyalty.
Before either: There is nothing to buy here and that is the point, so the thing to check is the shape of what is free. It is three items deep and it does not refill, so plan when to spend them rather than opening them on the first evening. None of the three returns a scored evaluation of your own Speaking or Writing response, which is the gap every practice product in this set exists in. And note that the older addresses have been consolidated: /prepare/free-practice-test.html, /prepare/sample-test.html and /prepare/toefl-testready.html all now land on the one preparation page, so a bookmark or a third-party link may take you somewhere that no longer describes what it used to.
Sources, and what we could not read
- the official TOEFL iBT preparation page, which is where every older prep URL now lands — https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/prepare.html, read 2026-08-24.
The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:
- "Prepare for the TOEFL test with expert tips, practice questions, and study resources designed to help you succeed."
- "Accessible Formats: The TOEFL iBT Sample Test is accessible to screen readers."
- A satisfaction block reports "82% felt less anxious", "86% were more able to demonstrate their English skills" and "90% felt more prepared", footnoted "Source: Survey of 315 users across the United States, India, China and Japan." That is their footnote, restated with it rather than without it.
Reach120 vs The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests: common questions
- Is The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests better than Reach120?
- This page does not answer that, and no page published by one of the two products honestly could. What it gives you instead is the evidence to answer it yourself: what each states about free access, price and 2026 task coverage, quoted from the page it was read from on 2026-08-24, plus a plain statement of what The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests does better — It is the exam, written by the people who write the exam, and nothing in this set substitutes for that — Reach120 least of all, since Reach120 builds from the published specifications and says so. Two full-length tests and an interactive sample cost nothing, need no account and settle any format question a third party could only guess at. The sample test is stated to be accessible to screen readers, which almost nothing else here states at all. The honest recommendation on this page is to take these first: any product that is worth paying for is worth paying for after you have used the free official material, not instead of it.
- What does The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests cost?
- This page states no The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests price. Reach120 does not publish the test maker’s prices, fees or product SKUs anywhere — not as a figure, not as a range, not as a comparison anchor and not converted into another currency. That rule binds this page more tightly than most, because the preparation page we read carries paid product tiles beside the free ones: the figures were there and are withheld deliberately, not missed. Setting a free official item against a paid official item is still the test maker’s pricing doing our selling, so this page states what is free, states that other things on that page are not, and sends you to read the rest at the source.
- Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests?
- You can use a large part of it free and decide afterwards. Reading, Listening and Build a Sentence practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email and Write for an Academic Discussion give a free account 3 AI-scored writing responses to start, then one more each day, up to 10 in total; Take an Interview has 3 AI-scored Take an Interview responses in total, for the life of the account; Listen & Repeat has 8 on the account, for life. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.
- Does The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?
- Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: No cell is filled here, and it would be a category error to fill one. The six task types in this table are defined BY the test maker; scoring the definer against a spine built from third-party pages measures nothing. The preparation page we read is a catalogue of products rather than a syllabus, and it names no individual task type — but that is a fact about that page’s job, not about coverage, and the comparison page for this row prints no coverage table rather than a row of blanks. A blank cell in the table on this page means we found no public statement, not that the feature is missing.
- Who publishes this comparison?
- Reach120 does, and Reach120 is one of the two products in it. That is disclosed at the top rather than buried, every competitor fact carries the URL and date it came from, and the section stating what The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and The official free TOEFL iBT practice tests did not review it. If you believe a fact on this page is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will re-read the source.