TOEFL® speaking section is no good!

[Goggles123]

I would like to express my disappointment from ETS and their Toefl exam.
I took the exam few months ago and I had a very low score on the speaking section and I decided to request a rescore for that section for which I had to pay them $60.
I was confident that I was underrated and after the rescore I got even lower score. Now I don’t know if they are doing this just because they are trying not to encourage other people to go for the rescore or I really did badly on my exam but it seems to me that they have all the authority to do whatever they want. They already are a monopolist in the area so I believe that they do not spend too much time to worry about such cases and they can do whatever they please.
From the very beginning I did not believe in the rescore at all because even if they did underrate me in the first place they would not give me much different score after the rescore because if they do so they will discredit their own people and the organization’s professionalism.
So my advice is not to go for the rescore because believe me it’s a waste of money and nerves.
Anyway the speaking section is really useless and this is not only my opinion. I speak good English and still scored the lowest result at that section. How is that possible, I do not know. Something is not right but would they do anything about it, I really doubt it. They shouldn’t get too worry cause as I said they are monopolist in the area and it has to become a really big incident to get in trouble.
That’s it, they show inability to evaluate student well but who cares it’s a good business anyway.


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