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The document provides tips and boosters for each section of the TOEFL exam: [1] For reading, it recommends practicing comprehension questions from advanced English books and carefully reading questions to identify what is being asked. [2] For speaking, it suggests focusing on pronunciation, vocabulary, content, smooth responses, and familiarizing yourself with the tasks and scoring. [3] For listening, it advises understanding "gist" questions that ask about the main idea or purpose of conversations or lectures. [4] For writing, there is an integrated task combining reading and listening, and an independent task expressing opinion or experience.

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Success Is Complete With TOEFL Boosters TOEFL or Test of English as a Foreign Language is a test designed to assess a candidates proficiency at understanding and using English. Passing this test is a requirement for non-native, English-speaking individuals, who seek employment or university admissions in the United States. Candidates are tested on four chief aspects: reading, listening, speaking and writing. Each of these sections, account for 25% of the overall score. The following are a few TOEFL boosters for each of these sections: Reading: Each reading passage in the TOEFL has between 3 to six factual information questions. To practice for this section, candidates will have to get their hands on an upper-intermediate or advanced EFL (English as a foreign language) reading book and work out the comprehension questions related to reading. The multiple choice questions that follow the reading are quite helpful. The item in this segment present either a question or an incomplete sentence and offers you four options to either answer the question or complete the sentence. Reading the sentence or question carefully will help you identify exactly what it is asking for. The options many seem quite tricky but make sure that the one you choose is the best match for the question or the incomplete section. Take advantage of the fact that the TOEFL (IBT) allows you to browse through the reading as many times as you like during the time allotted for that part. Scan the reading for key words and judge whether the ideas are good answers. Speaking: Getting a better understanding of how your speech is judged will help you focus on those factors that will raise your score. Good pronunciation, accurate vocabulary and substantial content will help you with the speaking score. An automatic response (response that flows smoothly and without a lot of pauses or breaks) is also what examiners are looking for in the speaking section of the TOEFL. Familiarity with the test instructions, knowledge of scoring criteria, adequate TOEFL test preparation and availability of preparation materials also help in increasing you over all speaking score. Since the speaking tasks are quite short, (45 minutes for the independent tasks and 60 seconds for the integrated tasks) unfamiliarity with the aspects of the task might make this section seem difficult.
Listening: The word gist implies an overall understanding. The TOFEL listening section targets the comprehension of gist and you will find question built focus on gist. There are two main types of basic comprehension questions in the reading section-gist content, gist purpose and detail. The two types of gist questions given here differ in what large aspect of information they focus on. The questions that target the gist content ask about what the speakers are saying and the questions that target the Gist purpose ask about what why they are saying it. The gist content can either relate to a lecture or a conversation on the listening section. It is quite obvious that the answer will include a statement that captures the main idea. Writing: there are main two tasks that need to be completed in the writing section. The first task in the writing section is the integrated task. It is called an integrated task because it requires a combination of skills like reading and listening to complete the task. In this task you will have 3 minutes to read through a short passage after which you have to listen to a small lecture about a related academic topic. The second is the independent task and the second is the integrated task. The independent requires you to express a personal opinion or describe some personal experience. It is called an independent task because all the information that you will need to complete this task is already present in your mind. If you approach these sections with confidence you will be able to successfully display your English language skills and ace the test.

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Success is complete with toefl boosters

  • 1. Success Is Complete With TOEFL Boosters TOEFL or Test of English as a Foreign Language is a test designed to assess a candidates proficiency at understanding and using English. Passing this test is a requirement for non-native, English-speaking individuals, who seek employment or university admissions in the United States. Candidates are tested on four chief aspects: reading, listening, speaking and writing. Each of these sections, account for 25% of the overall score. The following are a few TOEFL boosters for each of these sections: Reading: Each reading passage in the TOEFL has between 3 to six factual information questions. To practice for this section, candidates will have to get their hands on an upper-intermediate or advanced EFL (English as a foreign language) reading book and work out the comprehension questions related to reading. The multiple choice questions that follow the reading are quite helpful. The item in this segment present either a question or an incomplete sentence and offers you four options to either answer the question or complete the sentence. Reading the sentence or question carefully will help you identify exactly what it is asking for. The options many seem quite tricky but make sure that the one you choose is the best match for the question or the incomplete section. Take advantage of the fact that the TOEFL (IBT) allows you to browse through the reading as many times as you like during the time allotted for that part. Scan the reading for key words and judge whether the ideas are good answers. Speaking: Getting a better understanding of how your speech is judged will help you focus on those factors that will raise your score. Good pronunciation, accurate vocabulary and substantial content will help you with the speaking score. An automatic response (response that flows smoothly and without a lot of pauses or breaks) is also what examiners are looking for in the speaking section of the TOEFL. Familiarity with the test instructions, knowledge of scoring criteria, adequate TOEFL test preparation and availability of preparation materials also help in increasing you over all speaking score. Since the speaking tasks are quite short, (45 minutes for the independent tasks and 60 seconds for the integrated tasks) unfamiliarity with the aspects of the task might make this section seem difficult.
  • 2. Listening: The word gist implies an overall understanding. The TOFEL listening section targets the comprehension of gist and you will find question built focus on gist. There are two main types of basic comprehension questions in the reading section-gist content, gist purpose and detail. The two types of gist questions given here differ in what large aspect of information they focus on. The questions that target the gist content ask about what the speakers are saying and the questions that target the Gist purpose ask about what why they are saying it. The gist content can either relate to a lecture or a conversation on the listening section. It is quite obvious that the answer will include a statement that captures the main idea. Writing: there are main two tasks that need to be completed in the writing section. The first task in the writing section is the integrated task. It is called an integrated task because it requires a combination of skills like reading and listening to complete the task. In this task you will have 3 minutes to read through a short passage after which you have to listen to a small lecture about a related academic topic. The second is the independent task and the second is the integrated task. The independent requires you to express a personal opinion or describe some personal experience. It is called an independent task because all the information that you will need to complete this task is already present in your mind. If you approach these sections with confidence you will be able to successfully display your English language skills and ace the test.