What is TOEFL

Actually Toefl consist of four section or some time some people call it modules . First one is reading section , which further divided in to three to five passages which are roughly 800 words each . Each Paragraph is followed by 12 to 14 multiple choice questions about the content of the paragraph .Most of the questions are 1 point worth each .It is said that last few questions might be worth of more then one point . Usually you get 1 hours to one and half hour to complete this section . Second section is about nine audio compositions , each is about five minute long . This listing section will be either academic or simple conversations .Again this section is about an hour or half an hour long Third one is speaking section , which is said to be to test your speaking abilities .This section is consist of about 6 sub sections , you need about 20 minutes to complete entire section . Last one is writing section consisting of two writing assignments . One is purely writing section while other one is composed of listening ,reading and writing .So you will need to demonstrate all three skill in this subsections .

Speaking : My best bet

Toefl Speaking remain a Big hurdle for Toefl aspirants .Specially , who are writing this exam to get registered as pharmacist .There are students who have tried this exam about 15 times , but did not pass. That does not mean that they have bad English or they are not good speakers. I knew a Canadian Pharmacist who is a pharmacist in Canada about 5 years . His clientele like him very much for his counseling skills .But according to ETS his Speaking is not up to grade. SO never get dishearten if do not score desired score in speaking module. First of all raters are computers , who do not have common sense .So they can not rate correctly . After all kinds research I discovered that following points if kept in mind while doing your speaking section , there are chances where you can score good . First is your favorite topic . Choose about 50-60 topics which and memorized it by heart . This is the section , where you can score best. Make sure that you know about 20 terms of vocabulary , which can be used perfectly in sentences . So that what ever question is , just mold your answer according to that answer and used the words clearly , you just cramped. They should make sense in your answer. Always speak clearly , slowly (It should be OK not to fast, or not too slow.) More clear you speak , more chances of getting high score is . Do not speak too fast , they are not judging you fluency in terms of how you speak fast. I am not hundred % sure whether this tip works or not but i knew few people who were writing this exam since ages , scored fairly good when they adopted this technique . So my first tip is Speak slowly , clearly and use variety of vocabulary .Even give a time for period . Well , I like reading books but My favorite book is Pickwick papers . I love this book for several reasons First of all this is written by my favorite author Charles Dickins. secondly subject is very humorous, which made this book for me a preference .Furthermore , this book was readily available and was not expensive . Though , I gave this idea to many of my friends and they got through .This time I will be also using this trick and will see what happens .

Speaking Remain a Hurdle In Toefl IBT

Toefl IBT Toefl IBt remained puzzle for me . Though, all English proficiency exams remained a puzzle for me . I do not know , which exam is true tester for some one,s English proficiency .For instance , I wrote all these English exams . I wrote my Ilets Exams for almost four times and every time I received about 7 and 7.5 bands in all module except listening . Every time I appeared in exam and received 5 and 5.5 modules . So according to Ilets my listening was not up to standards . So I got fed up and decided to write Toefl IBT and did almost 5 times . Ironically all times I received about 28 marks in all module except speaking . I was getting below 25 in speaking . Means my speaking was not up to standards . Then I decided write can test .So more surprisingly Cantest gave me 5 bands out of five in all module except writing and I was just getting 3.5 in writing all the time , so it means my writing was up to standards to practice in my profession . I was all up set because these exam conducting bodies were playing games with me . One was saying that your speaking is not good , while other one was giving me 100 % in module . So to whom I should believe ? One was saying that you get 28 out of 30 in writing while other one just gave 3 out of 5 saying that your writing in not up to good. Next I decided to write another English exam from US university exam called MELAB . By I luck I passed this exam in second attempt . So I can say that all these exams are just bogus and none them are up to standard , which can test some one English proficiency . If you want to score good in any English exam , just practice more and more . These test do not test you English proficiency , but it test , how good you know about test . Even a English dumb person can score good marks in these exams . I would like to tell you that I write for newspaper and do diabetes education seminars but still these bodies thinks that I am not able to communicate in English fluently. Make sure you also download all the TOEFL material from the ETS website, including the Official Bulletin, Test Center Locations etc. Registering for the iBT also gives you access to TOEFL-Access, a portal for students with a lot of helpful material on it. Plus, you can always Google for more TOEFL resources on the web. So once again these website wont teach any English , but how to write exam .