BestMyTest vs Study.com for TOEFL Prep: Which Is the Better Course for the New Format?

The Quick Answer

• Choose BestMyTest if you want practice at volume and feedback from more than an algorithm. Its 6,500+ questions are modeled on official ETS TOEFL questions, so they feel like the real exam in style, pattern, and difficulty, and it is the only course of the two with TOEFL certified teacher reviews, a word-by-word pronunciation review, AI Tutor exercises built from your own mistakes, and an unlimited free trial.
• Choose Study.com if you want a conversational AI tutor to set your study plan and explain strategy on demand, inside a course developed with ETS input.
• Question bank: BestMyTest has over 6,500 TOEFL questions, each modeled on an official ETS TOEFL question and true to the real test in style, pattern, and difficulty. Study.com offers 3 adaptive full-length tests per CEFR level, drawing on about 1,600 questions written by its own team to ETS specifications.
• Full-length tests: BestMyTest includes 50 adaptive practice tests with a diagnostic report after each one. Study.com includes 3 per CEFR level.
• Try before you pay: BestMyTest's free trial is unlimited. You can use the course free for as long as you want, with no credit card and no time limit. Study.com's shortest option is a paid two-week plan.
• Both courses cover the new adaptive TOEFL, including Build a Sentence, Write an Email, Listen and Repeat, and the Interview task, and both report on the 1 to 6 band scale.

What Study.com Offers, and What It Leaves Out

Study.com's TOEFL prep is a practice-first platform. You start with a diagnostic, the platform places you at a CEFR level per section, and from there you work through adaptive practice with an AI tutor on call. Here is what it includes, according to its own pages in October 2026:

• An ETS partnership. ETS named Study.com its official TOEFL test prep partner in November 2025, and the course was designed with input from the test maker.
• 3 adaptive full-length tests per CEFR level, built from about 1,600 questions that Study.com's content team wrote to ETS specifications.
• A diagnostic that reports a CEFR level for each section and recommends what to study next.
• StudyAI, a chat tutor you can ask to break down a question or suggest a strategy, which also sets your study plan and predicts your score.
• Instant AI feedback on Speaking and Writing, scored against ETS-aligned rubrics.
• 100+ lessons and 90+ videos, plus access to Study.com's wider course library.
• Two plans: $39.99 for two weeks, or $59.99 per month that renews until you cancel. There is no free trial.

What Study.com leaves out is the human layer and the skill repair. Every piece of feedback comes from AI; no teacher listens to your Speaking or reads your Writing. And when the AI finds a weakness, the next step is a conversation with the chat tutor and a lesson recommendation rather than a targeted exercise on the skill you missed. Its question bank is also a fraction of the size of BestMyTest's.

What BestMyTest Gives You

BestMyTest was built around one loop: practice, review, fix the skill, practice again. Every part of the course feeds that loop.

• 6,500+ TOEFL questions modeled on official ETS TOEFL questions, so every item carries the style, pattern, and difficulty of the real exam, across every task type on the new adaptive format.
• 50 full-length adaptive practice tests that follow the new 90-minute adaptive format, including the multistage adaptive Reading and Listening sections, each ending in a diagnostic score report.
• A free instant AI score on every Speaking and Writing answer, scored on each criterion instantly, with feedback and AI Tutor skill exercises built from your performance on that answer. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.
• A detailed AI review of any Speaking or Writing answer you choose. For Speaking it scores every criterion and your pronunciation word by word. For Writing it scores every criterion, corrects and explains every grammar mistake, and gives you a high-scoring rewrite. Every review also builds AI Tutor skill exercises from your performance on that answer. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.
• A TOEFL certified teacher review of any Speaking or Writing answer you choose, within three business days. For Speaking you get a score on every criterion with audio feedback. For Writing you get a score on every criterion and your essay corrected by the teacher. Every review also builds AI Tutor skill exercises from your performance on that answer. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.
• AI Tutor skill exercises that target the exact weakness behind a mistake: inference in Reading, verb tenses in Writing, a consonant cluster you keep dropping in Speaking.
• 200+ TOEFL and English lessons and vocabulary training with 5,000+ words, with flashcards and exercises.
• Ask an Instructor for a human answer to any question, plus a score forecast that tracks how your practice scores are trending.
• An unlimited free trial with no credit card, plans from a 7-day pass up to two years, a score improvement guarantee, and IELTS prep plus BestMyLingo included with your TOEFL subscription.

Both courses have an AI tutor, but they do different jobs. Study.com's tutor talks: it explains and recommends. BestMyTest's AI Tutor trains: it builds an exercise from the pattern in your errors, and the next instant score tells you whether the fix held.

Feature by Feature

The table uses the figures each company publishes about its own TOEFL course.

What the ETS Partnership Does and Does Not Mean

Study.com's headline is that it is the official TOEFL test prep partner of ETS. The partnership is real: ETS announced it in November 2025 and describes the course as developed in collaboration with the makers of the TOEFL iBT. It is worth being precise about what that gives you.

• What it means: Study.com's content team worked from ETS's test specifications and sample content, and the course covered the new task types from launch.
• What it does not mean: the questions are not retired TOEFL items. Study.com's team wrote them to ETS specifications. The questions you meet on test day will be new in either case.

So the partnership tells you the course is aligned with the new adaptive format. It does not tell you how much practice you get, who reviews your answers, or what happens after a mistake, and those are the three things that separate the two courses. Every BestMyTest question is modeled on an official ETS TOEFL question, so it reproduces the style, pattern, and difficulty of the real exam. There are four times as many of them, and every Speaking and Writing answer can be reviewed by a person.

AI-Only Feedback vs AI Plus a Teacher

Reading and Listening are self-correcting: you pick an answer, you learn whether it was right. Speaking and Writing are not. You need someone or something to tell you what a 3 sounds like compared to a 4, and what to change. Both courses use AI for that. Only one adds a teacher.

On Study.com

Every Speaking and Writing response gets instant AI feedback scored against ETS-aligned rubrics, and you can ask the StudyAI tutor to explain the result. Feedback is AI only; no teacher reviews your answers.

On BestMyTest

Every Speaking and Writing answer gets a free instant AI score on each criterion, with feedback. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics. On any answer you choose, you can add a detailed AI review or a TOEFL certified teacher review.

• The detailed AI review scores each criterion. For Speaking it colour-codes every word of your transcript by how accurately you pronounced it, scores each sound and syllable, and gives you a pronunciation exercise for every mispronounced word. For Writing it corrects and explains every grammar mistake and gives you a high-scoring rewrite. It then builds AI Tutor skill exercises from your performance. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.
• The teacher review gives you a score on each criterion and AI Tutor skill exercises built from your performance. For Speaking you get audio feedback on what to change. For Writing the teacher corrects your essay. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.

A rubric score can tell you that pronunciation cost you points. A teacher can tell you which sounds, and the detailed AI review can show you every one of them in your own transcript. Then the AI Tutor drills exactly those sounds. You can see what each kind of review contains on our TOEFL speaking review and TOEFL writing review pages.

Results You Can Check

Study.com's comparison pages carry quotes from learners who took part in its product research sessions. BestMyTest publishes its figures. The BestMyTest TOEFL learner performance data is updated from our own records, explains how every figure is measured, and regenerates the charts below each time it is refreshed.

Among BestMyTest learners who received three or more reviews of their answers from our AI and teachers, 93% raised their Writing band score, by an average of 2.6 bands, and 91% raised their Speaking band score, by an average of 2.2 bands.

Those figures rest on 205 095 reviewed Speaking answers and 181 664 reviewed Writing responses, from 78 777 learners who completed at least one full practice test section.

We cannot draw the same charts for Study.com, because it has not published comparable figures. If it does, we will add them here.

Plans, Trials, and Guarantees

Study.com charges $39.99 for a one-time two-week plan or $59.99 per month on a plan that renews until you cancel. Both plans include the same features. There is no free trial, and no score guarantee is listed on its TOEFL pages. Two weeks for $39.99 works out to about $80 a month of access, so the monthly plan is the better value if you need more than a fortnight.

BestMyTest starts with an unlimited free trial: you can use the course free for as long as you want, with no credit card and no time limit. Paid plans run from a 7-day pass for a test next week, through one to six month plans, to one and two year plans, with the monthly cost falling as the term grows. Prices are shown in your local currency on the TOEFL plans page. Every plan carries a score improvement guarantee: at least a 1 band improvement on a Custom plan and at least 2 bands on a Premium plan, with a refund if you complete the course and your official score does not improve by that much. You do not need a previous TOEFL score. Your first practice test in the first seven days sets your baseline.

Two things to weigh beyond the sticker price. A BestMyTest TOEFL subscription also includes IELTS prep and BestMyLingo. And a single TOEFL retake costs more than either course, so the course that fixes your weaknesses before test day is the better value.

Which Course Fits You

Pick Study.com if

• You want a chat-style AI tutor to set your plan and explain strategy as you go.
• You value a course developed with ETS input over the size of the question bank.
• You are comfortable with AI-only feedback on your Speaking and Writing.

Pick BestMyTest if

• You want to know why you lose points and fix that skill, not only hear it explained.
• Speaking or Writing is holding your score back and you want a teacher's review as well as AI scores.
• You want realistic full-length adaptive tests in volume, with a diagnostic report after each one.
• You want practice that feels like the real exam: every question is modeled on an official ETS TOEFL question, with the same style, patterns, and difficulty.
• You want to try the full course free for as long as you like before paying, then pick a plan length that matches your test date.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sources and Method

Study.com figures were read in October 2026 from its TOEFL pricing page, its course comparison, and its page on how the course was built, together with the ETS announcement of the partnership. BestMyTest figures are the course contents at the same date, and the learner figures on this page are generated from our published dataset each time it is refreshed. We sell one of the two courses, and the unlimited BestMyTest free trial is the fastest way to check the comparison yourself.

TOEFL is a registered trademark of ETS. BestMyTest is not affiliated with ETS or with Study.com.