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- TOEFL iBT overview and general tips
- The language you'll need in TOEFL
- Independent tasks in TOEFL iBT
- Integrated tasks in TOEFL iBT
- The importance of taking notes
- Understanding inferences in TOEFL
- Understanding stated details
- Understanding main ideas
- Summarising
- Know your own English
- Skills you'll need in iBT
- Writing in TOEFL
- Speaking in TOEFL
- Listening in TOEFL
- Reading in TOEFL
TOEFL iBT tip of the month
TOEFL assesses your ability to communicate in an academic environment. There are similarities in reading, listening, speaking and writing questions. While your English has to be very good, the test won’t be impossible if you learn a few skills and do as much practice as possible.
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Know your TOEFL English
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Get tested by professionals.
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Learn how to link ideas in an academic way.
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Become familiar with common topics in the TOEFL test.
Know your TOEFL English
Come in and do a practice TOEFL test. We’ll go through the results of it together. There’s a lot to cover in TOEFL preparation, so we’ll look at exactly what problems you’re having in each section.
Keep a vocabulary notebook and jot down any transition expressions that help you.
Do a lot of practice and you’ll become familiar with common topics in the test. Some people are worried about coming across texts that they have no background in: “I’m a business student, so how can I answers questions from a reading on biology?!!” Well, you don’t have to learn about biology; the point is whether your English is good enough to read anything.
You don’t have to learn every word in English, but what you can do is learn word parts. Native speakers know how to tear apart and put together words to form new ones. That’s how we cope with unusual vocabulary. You’ll need to do that in reading, speaking and writing tasks in TOEFL.