Four test forms were developed for the pilot study and given to three samples of examinees in target
populations in Japan, Korea and France. The target population for the TOEIC Speaking and Writing
tests, the same population as for the TOEIC Listening and Reading test, is composed of adults whose
first language is not English and who are interested in using and/or will use English at work. Because
the TOEIC Speaking and Writing tests are direct measures of productive skills, lower ability examinees
may encounter difficulty in taking the tests. Because of this, only those examinees who had scored
at least a combined total score of 4001
on the TOEIC Listening and Reading test were invited to
participate in the study of the pilot forms for the TOEIC Speaking and Writing tests.
In each country, examinees were randomly assigned to take one of four forms during December
2006. The number of examinees from each country who took each form is detailed in Table 1. Smaller
samples took Forms C and D, and their results were not as reliable as the results for Forms A and B,
each of which had a sample size of more than 1,000. Only results for Forms A and B are presented in
this report.