Now by far this is on the top 3 challenges any student can have when preparing for a standardized test, along with grammar and structuring your responses and to be honest there isn’t a super fast way to increase your vocabulary. It takes months or years to get to a very high level of vocab, depending on your starting point and how much you actually practice.
Ok, so this will be a long post. As I will attempt to answer the most common questions I have had from my students and found online. This post will be updated as more of you guys ask me more questions, so make sure to leave a comment and check in periodically for new updates.
As you know during 3/4 of this test you will have to take notes. You will be doing this during The Listening Section, The Speaking Section, and The Writing Section. However, you must be aware that this is not an easy skill to master here is a shortlist of things that I have compiled and applied with my students to help them improve their writing skills as fast as they can.
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes Getting a high score on the TOEFL test is essential for whatever institution you are applying to. Nevertheless, obtaining that score is not as easy as it may sound. A lot of effort and time needs to be placed into studying, preparing, improving and repeating everything. So, here I brief …
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To be clear from the start: the TOEFL-ibt is not a test that you can pass or not, rather it gives you a score and places it in a scale so in reality what you would need to look for is what score you want to get, and mark that as your target score.
Ok so in this post, I will do my best to summarize all the information related to the TOEFL-ibt test, going through some general themes to some more specific ones. I will do my best to organize it in a clear form. This will be based on some of the most common questions students usually have for this test. So without further ado…