For those of you who have taken the TOEFL before, what was the hardest part about it?

Hi! I counselor with a site, My work profile is to counsel students on how to take easy on exams like GMAT, SAT, GRE, LSAT, TOEFL. Students appear or intend to take TOEFL exam mostly find listening section hard but The truth is that for many people, the Listening Section is the hardest part of the test to improve on quickly.

We all like to study grammar because there are rules that we can memorize, reading, especially on the TOEFL, is often a matter of learning more vocabulary, but listening is a different story. Of course, the best way to improve one's listening is to practice over time. Most people find that watching television shows or movies in English or listening to songs in English are great ways to improve.

If you are fortunate enough to have friends who are native speakers of English, or if you live in a country in which the predominant language is English, then you also have a great advantage. A method that some of my hardest working and most successful students have used is this: They listen to a TOEFL tape and transcribe (write down everything said on the tape) it. Then, they compare what they wrote with the script in the back of the book.

This takes a long, long time, it could take several hours just for one test, but it is a great method because when you compare, you can see the kinds of mistakes that you are making. For example, you might not hear words that are run together, you might miss some important words, or you might misunderstand some very important words. One of my long-term students, for example, thought one of the speakers in the talk was going to a "coffee shop," but when she read the script, she realized it was actually a "copy shop.

It's tough to do all these things, but it's possible to improve! Just like everything else in life, anything good or worthwhile will take a lot of effort! Hope it helps you.

TOEFL: your way to getting higher education in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and USA. TOEFL is abbreviation for Test of English as a Foreign Language. It’s international test developed by ETS Educational Testing Service in Princeton University, USA.

The goal of TOEFL is to estimate a level of English language of foreigner speakers. Many of them need to pass TOEFL to enter 240 universities of USA and Canada, many colleges in other English-speaking countries; business-structures and 150 world countries accept TOEFL certificates. TOEFL used to evaluate English language skills by government structures, international organizations giving educational grants and many license and certificate organizations around the world.

TOEFL certificates can be accepted even in UK that have 4 functioning TOEFL centers. You can study using special CDs. Usually they contain different strategies of passing the test, test variants and variety of grammar exercises.

Answering the test questions, don’t forget to watch the time and appreciate how many of tasks you have ahead. During the test, you’ll meet several types of questions. Better to study them at home first.

Don’t hurry answering, you can miss some information, even if the answer seems to be clear. After giving the answer, you cannot change it. Parts of TOEFL: Listening Comprehension Structure and Written Expression Reading Comprehension Test of Written English.

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