TOEFL- how do they score these?

International Students
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<p>i dont understand how they score the following TOEFL listening questions.</p>

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<li>Yes-No questions. The question generally asks for things like "does the following support the hypothesis?." Then you get a table with about 5 different sentences and you have to either check "yes" or "no" on whether the applied sentence supports the hypothesis or not. My book tells me that these type of question can give up to 2 points. How many do you have to get correct in order to get 1 point?</li>
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<p>2.Connection Questions. Connection problems ask you to show relationships on a chart. For example, if i read a passage about bugs, it will ask something like "indicate whether each insect below refers to a model or a mimic (types of bugs)" then there will be a list of bugs and i have to categorize them to either the model section or mimic section. Book says they are worth 4 points but does not elaborate how much is worth one point, how much correct is worth two points and so on.</p>

<p>Thank you everyone in advance</p>

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<p>Since questions are changed from one exam to another, each exam is standardized separately by ETS. This means that it is impossible for anyone outside of their group of exam-scoring experts to tell you how much any given question on any given exam is worth. Yes, I know this makes things difficult for you when you are preparing for the exam, but that is the way it is.</p>

<p>The idea behind standardization is that if a student were to get 5 questions right on version A, and 6 questions right on version B, and 4 questions right on version C, then version C is a bit “harder” than version A, and version A is a bit “harder” than version B. Because of this, the relationship between the number of correct answers on each version of the exam and the final reported TOEFL score is adjusted so that the student’s final score would be the same no matter which version of the exam he/she took.</p>