TOEFL® results 26 June

[Arseni]

Good evening, dear mr Kitos and others!
I want to share my joy with you and just to say lots of thanks for your job.
I've earned 23/28/24/24 (reading, listening, speaking, writing) total 99. My goal was 100 but I think it is enough. I have not done well in reading, but writing has been easy.

Actually, my writing had been very poor before I started to work with such a good teacher! My second language is Spanish, and I'm studying English a little bit more than one year. But practice and valuable advice do make sence=)

Kitos, without your help I could not have seen my mistakes...People, it is one of the most useful activities! Work hard and you will succeed! It is real!!!

Now I'm going to prepare to GMAT and I hope I will keep on writing. See you!=)

TOEFL listening discussions: How long should the student's essays be?

[Beeesneees]

Well done, Arseni!

Having read some of your work, I'm not surprised. That is an excellent reflection of all your hard work.
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Cheers m' dears!

[Kitosdad]

Arseni ... never doubted you mate!
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Keep it simple ... Keep it interesting.

[Remula]

Your listening is excellent! How have you achieved such a result?

[Arseni]

Thanks!! Remula, actually, listening is the simplest part of TOEFL because you do not have to understand everything in a passage. However, I studied a lot of preparation materials. Best of them are:
-Cambridge preparation Toefl IBT, 4th edition - the best book for all parts of TOEFL
-Longman Toefl IBT - easy one, but very good for the beginning
-The official guide toefl ibt – listening voices are the same as on the real exam

It is better to study first 3 books, but other 4 are also very good.
-Kaplan Toefl IBT
-Complete guide toefl IBT
-Delta Key toefl IBT
-Cracking TOEFL
After doing lots of exercises, you begin to divine questions while listening=)

Moreover, it is very useful to listen to radio pod-casts. I formed a habit to listen English in car. There is a traffic “catastrophe” in my city, so I could spend a lot of time with English=)
My favorite are:
- BBC learning English http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts
- http://www.eslpod.com/toefl/scripts/scripts.html - really the BEST for the beginning, but quite easy!
- http://www.china232.com/ - just for fun

Actually, I studied English from “lower intermediate” level with toelf materials. After studying “Murphy grammar book” I plunged in studying these books and writing. It is really very interesting to prepare to such an exam, especially with good teachers and materials!

Good luck! =)