Explain the Differences Between TOEFL and TOEIC

TOEFL

TOEFL(Test of English as a Foreign Language) is meant to evaluate the English ability of those interested in academic study. Japanese students who plan to study abroad, for example, must usualy take this in order to be accepted by North American colleges and universities. TOEFL is also used as a placement test, as a test to measure progress in a language-training program, and as an "exit test" to make sure tha students have reached a certain level of English ability when they finish a program of language study.

 Example of questions : 

• Unlike the earth, which rotates once every twenty four hours___________once every ten hours. 
  A. the rotation of Jupiter
  B. Jupiter rotates
  C. Jupiter rotation
  D. Jupiter rotate

• This tear will be more difficult for our organization because _______
  A. we have less money and volunteers than last year.
  B. there is a little money and volunteers than last year.
  C. it has less money and fewer volunteers than it had last year.
  D. it has fewer money and less volunteers than it had last year.
  
  

• The teacher have had some proble deciding______________
  A. when to the students they shall return the final papers.
  B. when are they going ro return to the students the final papers.
  C. when they should return to the final papers to the students.
  D. the time when the final papers they should return for the students.

TOEIC
  
TOEIC is intended to measure English ability in the global workplace. Companies often use it to make decisions about recruitment, promotion , and sending employess overseas. TOEIC is also used as placement test, as a means of measuring the effectiveness of language training programs , and as an exit test for such programs.

Example of questions :

• _____ is no better season than winter to begin training at Fitness Center.
  A. when
  B. it
  C. there
  D. as it
  
  
• The financial audit of Soft Peach Software_______completed on Wednesday by a certified accounting firm.
  A. to be
  B. having been
  C. was
  D. were
  
  
• Employess must turn off the lights____they leave the office.
  A. afterward
  B. before
  C. while
  D. because
  
  
  
  TOEFL, in other words, focuses on how language is used in academic contexts, while TOEIC focuses on how language used in global business and commerce.