TOEFL 2026 · Writing · Free practice
Pick a prompt, write your email, and get it scored out of 5 with a comment on each of the four criteria the task is judged on. No account and no email address: 3 scored emails a day, graded the same way the LingoLeap app grades them.
Time on the test
About 7 minutes
Scored length here
60–250 words
Score scale
0–5, half points
You are taking an introductory biology course and have been struggling with the material covered in the last two lectures. You have an upcoming midterm exam next week and would like to meet with your professor to clarify some concepts.
Write an email to Professor Chen. In your email, do the following:
Write your email in complete sentences.
3 free scored emails a day, no account. Your email is sent to LingoLeap's scoring server to be graded and is not added to any account.
The timer is a guide only; it starts when you begin typing and never stops you submitting. If JavaScript is off, every prompt is written out in full below so you can still practise against the clock.
These are LingoLeap's own practice prompts, inspired by TOEFL task patterns — not actual test questions. Each one comes from one of our Write an Email guides, where you can also read a sample response.
Prompt 1 · Emailing a professor
You are taking an introductory biology course and have been struggling with the material covered in the last two lectures. You have an upcoming midterm exam next week and would like to meet with your professor to clarify some concepts.
Write an email to Professor Chen. In your email, do the following:
Prompt 2 · Campus services
Your dormitory Wi-Fi has been extremely slow every evening for the past two weeks, making it nearly impossible to submit assignments online or join virtual study sessions.
Write an email to the campus IT Help Desk. In your email, do the following:
Prompt 3 · Complaint
Your dormitory neighbor in the room next to yours plays loud music every night past midnight. You have spoken to them twice, but the noise has not stopped. You are losing sleep and your academic performance is suffering.
Write an email to the Housing Office. In your email, do the following:
Prompt 4 · Emailing a classmate
Your group project for sociology class is falling behind because tasks have not been divided clearly.
Write an email to your classmate Jordan. In your email, do the following:
Prompt 5 · Scheduling
You are a university student. A mandatory chemistry lab section was just added to your schedule on Wednesday afternoons, which now conflicts with your professor's regular office hours from 2:00 to 3:30 PM. You still need to meet with Professor Davis to discuss your research paper.
Write an email to Professor Davis. In your email, do the following:
Write an Email is the second task in the TOEFL 2026 Writing section, between Build a Sentence and Academic Discussion. You read a short scenario — usually a situation a university student runs into — and write an email to the person it names. The prompt lists three things your email has to do, and you have about seven minutes to read it and write.
The three points are the backbone of your score. An email that handles two of them well and skips the third reads as an incomplete message, however polished the sentences are. The recipient decides the register: formal for a professor or an office, semi-formal for a classmate.
For the format, the rubric and worked examples, read the TOEFL 2026 Write an Email guide or browse common Write an Email topics.
You get one overall score from 0 to 5, in half points, and a score and comment for each of four criteria:
The overall score is not an average. Correct grammar with basic vocabulary, or an informal tone to a professor, holds the overall score down even when accuracy is high — which is why a clean but plain email often lands at 3 to 3.5.
| Score | Level | What it looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Fully successful | Effective and clearly expressed, with consistent facility in the language. Elaboration supports the purpose, word choice is precise and idiomatic, and the register fits the reader throughout. |
| 4 | Generally successful | Mostly effective and easily understood. Adequate elaboration, some syntactic variety, mostly appropriate conventions, few errors. |
| 3 | Partially successful | Generally accomplishes the task, but limitations in language keep parts of the message from being fully clear. Correct but basic vocabulary and mostly simple sentences usually land here. |
| 2 | Mostly unsuccessful | An attempt at the task that is mostly ineffective: limited or irrelevant elaboration, a narrow range of language, inconsistent tone, an accumulation of errors. |
| 1 | Unsuccessful | Very little elaboration, telegraphic or disconnected language, and little original language beyond what the prompt supplies. |
| 0 | Not scorable | Blank, off-topic, not in English, copied entirely from the prompt, or random keystrokes. |
There is no band score for a single email. TOEFL reports the 1–6 Writing band for the whole section, so the drill — like the LingoLeap app — reports the task on its own 0–5 scale. This is LingoLeap's AI estimate, not an official ETS score. For how raters apply the scale across all writing tasks, see TOEFL writing rubrics.
The app scores every email on the same four criteria and adds a revised version, a grammar pass and vocabulary upgrades — plus Academic Discussion and full mock tests.
Open the writing practiceTOEFL 2026 Write an Email guide
The format, the rubric, and what separates a 4 from a 5.
Write an Email topics
The five scenario types that recur, with more practice prompts.
Email writing template
A reusable structure for greeting, purpose, body and sign-off.
TOEFL 2026 writing section
All three writing tasks and how the section band is reported.