As the TOEFL evaluates you on your knowledge of English, it is important to test your abilities in social circumstances too. Thus 2 major sections of the test consist of integrated tasks. There are integrated speaking and writing tasks in the TOEFL Speaking and Writing section. You are expected to refer to different sources and involve multiple opinions in these tasks. The integrated speaking and writing section is allocated a fixed amount of time and hence you need to be swift in completing these sections.

While the entire writing section is allocated 50 minutes in an internet based test, you are required to handle one independent and one integrated task in it. Since the independent tasks need your personal opinions and views, they can be completed faster so that you can allocate more time to the integrated speaking and writing tasks. The speaking task is allocated only 20 minutes where students must complete 2 independent and 4 integrated tasks. This section will require deep concentration and a quick thought process so that you are not distracted when others speak during the integrated tasks. Your views and opinions should be clear.

Since the integrated speaking and writing part covers more than 50% of the respective sections. It is important to complete this successfully. These parts include different sources of contents, quotes, statements which you need to comprehend and report properly. In the speaking section, your voice needs to be crisp and clear and pronunciations need to be apt. The writing section requires good vocabulary, continuous and synthesized flow of thoughts.

In the integrated speaking and writing sections, you are expected to provide solutions in case of arguments or debates while in case of general passages or lectures you are supposed to explain the link between different episodes and their relation. You are not allowed to confer your personal opinions in the integrated speaking and writing parts.