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