Is TOEIC Speaking scored by a person or a machine?
Recordings go to the ETS Online Network for Evaluation and are scored by certified ETS raters rather than by an app. Each read-aloud response receives two ratings, one for pronunciation and one for intonation and stress, both on a 0 to 3 scale, and every rating across the 11 questions is summed
Recordings go to the ETS Online Network for Evaluation and are scored by certified ETS raters rather than by an app. Each read-aloud response receives two ratings, one for pronunciation and one for intonation and stress, both on a 0 to 3 scale, and every rating across the 11 questions is summed into one scaled score out of 200.
The criteria are delivery-only, which cuts both ways. A candidate with a strong accent but clear pauses and sentence stress can outscore a fluent speaker who swallows endings. Because the two ratings are separate, a reader who is easy to understand but flat in pitch still loses on the second scale, so marking three stressed words per sentence is worth as much as a pronunciation drill.