By E-mail, through Blog posts, or during class, I have gotten quite a few questions regarding TOEFL iBT integrated writing. This blog post contains answers to those questions. 1. Question: What is the integrated writing section of the TOEFL iBT? Answer: During the integrated writing task, you will read a 400-500 word passage and then listen to a …
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Interview with student, Austin Li, who scored 102/120 on the TOEFL iBT Michael: Thanks for agreeing to do a short interview about TOEFL. Could you tell me about yourself? Austin: I am a freshman in North Carolina. I took the paper Toefl when I was a first year in High school in Shanghai basically for …
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Listen to this post: case-study As a TOEFL iBT student you should work hard to improve your pronunciation so that you can score high on TOEFL iBT speaking. I did a pronunciation profile of 22 adults who came to the United States and profiled them a month later. I found that, although it is difficult to …
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Listen to this post: toefl-ibt-reading To be a good reader and to score high on TOEFL iBT reading, you need to connect various parts of a reading passage into a greater whole. Making these global connections helps you to perform optimally when you are completing charts and schematic tables, both of which are 2-3 point TOEFL iBT reading …
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The engine of English, grammar allows you to competently write and speak so that you are clearly understood from your audience. Since you will be judged by TOEFL iBT human raters in terms of whether you use grammar with a minimum number of errors during TOEFL iBT speaking and writing, you will need to have …