Now that this puts you at a really average kind of place, right? 50 percent of the people are scoring that much, so you can see the test takers usually have a harder time with speaking and writing.
Also, you could notice from the table that the score of 20-23 across the sections would be an average TOEFL score.
When we move up the scale, say to 24 – we see that earning 24 is not such a big deal in the Reading section, because a lot of people score that.
Whereas a 24 in the Writing section suddenly bumps you up to the 70th percentile, which means there’s only 30 percent of people doing better than you.
So 24 is a pretty good score in writing, but not such a great score in reading. A scaled score of 30 in Reading means only five percent of the people are scoring thirty or above.
What you want to aim for is twenty-five or above – that sets you apart from the others.
