TOEFL or IELTS? Which one is easier? Which one do i should/have to choose?

Almost every learning English students aim to get a good score from an English proficiency exam. Why not? After all these tiring study process why does not you want to prove your English on paper?

So when talking about English proficiency exams, 2 main exams come into prominence; TOEFL and IELTS. If we shortly define them we can say that TOEFL is a United State based exam and IELTS is England based also.

What is your objective?

Before taking an exam, you have to focus on and think about why you want to get an English proficiency exam. Making a decision about aim for getting an exam will help you which exam you have to choose for your education or job career. For example if you want to apply for a citizenship to United States, you should not get a IELTS score. Because it is useless for this objective. On the other hand if you want to apply for a university in England or United Kingdom, this time TOEFL will be useless for your aim. Please do not forget that the magic approach in here is correct exam for correct objective :)


Why to choose TOEFL

As i have mentioned before in short, TOEFL is an exam which is based on American English and it is used for America, Canada, New Zealand or Australian(Universities or for job applicants). I am going to prepare and provide to you a detailed essay about TOEFL and IELTS separately in the next days and i will explain all parts of TOEFL and give you some tips. Please be careful that it is not a topic for this essay as i mentioned at first. We are focusing on only the differences between TOEFL an IELTS in this essay today.

It should not be forgotten that on the contrary to IELTS, TOEFL does not have a general English module. TOEFL has just one form which is based and focused on only academic English basically. Therefore As you already understand your vocabulary must be ready for this academic English test module.

IELTS has an advantage : General English Module

IELTS which is based on basicly British English has 2 different modules as general and academic unlike TOEFL. So this means if you need to prove your English level for job application or getting promoted in your current job, you must get an IELTS General module score. Moreover if you apply for a university which is located in United Kingdom(England, Wales, Scotland and so on) also you need to get a good enough scoure from IELTS academic module, not TOEFL!

Furthermore, IELTS has one more advantage compared to TOEFL. As you might already know in speaking test of TOEFL you are talking to a computer. Please when you make a decision about the exam and if you are a sociable person consider that you can't feel a human feeling or eye-contact which may affect you positively in TOEFL speaking test. On the other hand in speaking test of IELTS you are talking to a real human one on one and he or she will do whatever make you feel relaxed during the speaking exam.


Bad News: There is no easy exam! Good News: Appropriate Exam :)

To sum up i can say that there is no easy exam in the English proficiency world. But good news; there is appropriate exam which depends on your goal/aim and personal characteristic. If you want to get promoted in your job or applying for a citizenship in U.K. you should get a score from IELTS-General English module which is easier from academic module comparatively. Of course for U.K universities you should take an IELTS-Academis Module. Moreover if you are a sociable and talkative person, i think that IELTS is more convenient for you due to its speaking section.(because of a real interviewer)

If you want to apply for a citizenship or university in USA, Canada, New Zealand or Australia, you should get a score from TOEFL exam.