In 1979 Educational Testing Services (ETS) created TOEIC upon a request of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).
The requirements for the test were: 来源：考试大
• Professional
• Reliable
• Available 来源：考试大
• Reasonably priced 来源：考试大
• Easy to adminster
• Easily understandably results
How is the high quality standard of the TOEIC being maintained?
• $ 2 Million investment early 来源：考试大
• Each question is tested on a standard population of at least 50.000 candidates
• Statistical analysis of the results 来源：考试大
• A mathematical tool to measure linguistic competence
