When Fernando of Brazil first joined Michael’s Online TOEFL Course: “The 7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT,” he struggled with proper word forms, sentence structures, and writing detailed paragraphs. Because of this, he scored low on the writing section of the TOEFL iBT. His previous TOEFL scores were listed as:
Reading: 24
Listening: 22
Speaking: 25
Writing: 20
With a writing score of 20, Fernando wanted to improve his writing proficiency, which is why he decided to join Michael’s 7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT. Commenting how he read many of the comments in Michael’s homepage, he wanted improve his English skills as other students in Michael’s course with the same success. But in order to do this, Fernando was assigned to work on the lessons in Michael’s grammar and writing sections in order to improve his writing proficiency.
With the grammar section, for example, Fernando was provided with many lessons to improve his word forms and sentence structures. For instance, with Lesson 1, Fernando learned about sentence variety. In addition, with Lesson 3, Fernando learned about being more concise with his writing. And, with Lesson 3 and 4, Fernando learned how to properly use commas, semi-colons, colons, dashes, periods, questions marks, and exclamation points. Because of these lessons like these in Michael’s grammar section, Fernando developed key writing skills like learning basic and advanced sentence structures, verb tenses, word forms, word choice, and parallel structures.
Similarly with the writing section, Fernando was provided with many lessons as well as independent and integrated practice tests to improve his ability to write detailed paragraphs. For instance, with 40 independent and 43 integrated writing practice tests plus 100′s of skill-building exercises within the lessons, Fernando gained competence in independent and integrated writing skills: decoding the writing task, organizing a coherent response, writing detailed developmental paragraphs, and ending the essay with concluding remarks.
As a result of Michael’s grammar and writing sections, Fernando developed proficient writing skills when writing academic responses to many of the writing tasks within the course. Because of this, Fernando now had keen writing abilities in order to improve his writing score on the TOEFL iBT. And when the time came for him to take the exam, Fernando ended up scoring a 98 with R24, L24, S25, and W25! Because of Michael’s 7 Step System, Fernando’s writing proficiency increasingly developed with amazing end results. If Fernando’s case has appealed to you, consider joining Michael’s Online TOEFL Course and begin your journey to academic English proficiency.