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bananaspit ►In last February I took TOEFL prediction test provided by my work place. I wasnt well prepared due to some unfortunate events prior the test. The registration announcement was very sudden, only one day before the test. To make thing worse, I came 15 minutes late at the test room.
This was the first time I took TOEFL test. There were questions form sheet and the answers must done by making round marks on the answer sheet with 2B pencil (just like SPMB or try out test). The first session was listening. I cant concentrate and hear the audio well. Most of the questions I answered by guessing, because I have no idea what the speakers talk about. The second session is structure and I think I manage to answer most of the question right. The third session was reading. I found reading was rather difficult because I had to read the pharagraphs twice to get the main point. It was time consumed, before I read the last two stories, the session was over, and once again I answered the rest of the questions by guessing.
Here are the test result:
Listening; correct=33 converted score= 52
Structure; correct=32 converted score=56
Reading; correct=34 converted score=51
Total converted score=159 PBT score=530
Do you guys think, base on mystory above, would my result be good enough had I much prepared before the test? I plan to take a real TOEFL next year and my target is to get a minimum score 570 because that is the minimum score required to apply for scholarship. The past test I didnt have to pay because my work place already paid it, but the real TOEFL will be really expensive for me. I hope I would only need one test to get the minimum score. Should I take TOEFL preparation course? Or can I improve my score by reading newspapers and doing exercise from TOEFL software without taking the preparation course?
Oh, I also try to improve my listening skill by listening some conversation material I found from internet. The site name is
www.elllo.org for daily conversation and
www.speakeasytokyo.net/downtobusinessenglish/wordpress/ for conversation about economy in general.
I think they provide good listening material and it's free to download.
if you work really hard at it, why not? you probably won't have the opportunity to take the PBT TOEFL in indonesia though, so my suggestion is to "convert" that required score into an iBT TOEFL score, which is probably around 90.
another thing is, like aSAPlover said, the TOEFL prediction you took didn't have the Speaking or Writing module (there was no TWE lookalike, was there?), so you probably need to work eve harder at those. remember: a Speaking or Writing test is ALWAYS a subjective test, meaning a live examiner will mark your test, be it with strict guidelines. the Listening or Reading test, on the other hand, is an objective test; a computer is (or can be) used to mark it based on the answer key provided because there's only ONE correct answer (or, in the case of the IELTS, a VERY LIMITED SET of correct answers) to each question.
so, your roadmap to success might look something like this:
[*]master ALL iBT TOEFL test-taking skills (including the format and the timing),
[*]practice (with iBT past exams or clone software),
[*]practice (with iBT past exams or clone software),
[*]practice (with iBT past exams or clone software),
[*]..
[*]..
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wiedstone ►Of course there gonna be Listening, Reading, and grammar.
I do not claim any expertise of this, but in my opinion, all TOEFL goes the same way.
not sure what you mean by this, but did you know that the TOEFL had undergone TWO major overhauls over the years, from PBT (Listening, Structure and Written Expression, Reading + TWE) to CBT (Listening, Structure, Reading and Writing) to its current form, iBT (Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing), which, by the way, has exactly the same papers as the IELTS has always had (can you say 'copycat'?), only with different test formats and sequence (and not to mention the weird way of delivering the Speaking test: how often in your lifetime do you expect to speak to a recorder instead of to a live person? not very often, i must say).
so, no, not all TOEFLs go the same way. they're not even marked the same way. oh, and you won't get Grammar on the iBT. it's integrated in the Speaking and Writing papers. which, again, reminds me of IELTS..
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