TOEFL iBT Writing

Step 6: Target and Improve Your TOEFL Writing Weaknesses

Step 6 – Target and Improve Your Writing Weaknesses The sixth step to successfully pass the TOEFL iBT Exam is to gain competence in independent and integrated writing skills: decoding the writing task, organizing a coherent response, writing detailed developmental paragraphs, and ending the essay with a conclusion. Without an organized approach to these writing …

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Step 1 – Super-Size Your TOEFL Vocabulary

Step 1 –Super-Size your Vocabulary The first step to successfully pass the TOEFL7 iBT Exam is building vocabulary proficiency. Let’s face it.  How can you understand college level vocabulary without having basic vocabulary?  Moreover, how can you perform optimally when reading and listening to TOEFL7 iBT passages without a good vocabulary foundation?  Finally, how can …

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Step 7 – Have an Organized Approach to TOEFL Speaking

Step 7 – Have an Organized Approach to TOEFL Speaking The seventh step to successfully pass the TOEFL iBT Exam is learning competent speaking skills: decoding the speaking task, organizing a coherent response including a topic statement, delivering rich details in the body of the speech, and ending with a conclusion. Despite your preparedness, you …

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Step 1 – Super-Size Your TOEFL Vocabulary

Step 1 – Super-Size Your Vocabulary “Why is this this the first step in passing the TOEFL iBT?” The first step to successfully pass the TOEFL iBT Exam is building vocabulary proficiency. Let’s face it. How can you understand college level vocabulary without having basic vocabulary? Moreover, how can you perform optimally when reading and …

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TOEFL iBT Integrated Writing: A Case Study of Three Introductions

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” Yesterday, I gave a twenty minute TOEFL iBT integrated writing assignment during which students read a passage about childhood amnesia and listened to a passage about the cause of childhood amnesia. The question that the students answered was, “How is the information in the …

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Interview with TOEFL iBT Student Begum

[flv]http://www.bettertoeflscores.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/newinterviewfilebegum.mp4[/flv] Begum is taking her first university class in the United States; she is also one of my TOEFL iBT students.  During this interview, you will learn the challenges that she faces as she completes her coursework.  Most importantly, she explains how to overcome those challenges so you too can succeed when taking university courses …

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