TOEFL Learning Center

TOEFL Learning Center Section was developed to help TOEFL Candidates in their TOEFL preparation process, improve their skills and test score. TOEFL iBT Learning Center is intended to contain practice materials from all kinds that are TOEFL related. For example, in TOEFL Learning Center TOEFL Students will find some useful worksheets for:

* Usage of transitional (linking) words in TOEFL iBT
* Effective Note Taking Strategies
* Essay Structure
* Developing Summarizing Skills
* Developing Paraphrasing Skills
* Developing Skills for Text Skimming

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TOEFL iBT Writing Strategies and Tips

The last component in TOEFL iBT is the Writing section. It measures you ability to write in standard academic English. There are two tasks in TOEFL iBT Writing section – TOEFL Independent Writing task and TOEFL Integrated Writing task.

Within the TOEFL Independent Writing task students are asked to write an essay on a given general question. The purpose of this TOEFL Writing task is to measure the students’ ability to state their opinions or express their comments on topics which are based on their personal knowledge and experience. The students should also support their ideas and opinions with examples or details. Students are given 30 minutes to write their essays. The TOEFL essay should be approximately 300 words.

Within the TOEFL Integrated Writing task the students are asked to demonstrate that they have understood material coming from different sources (reading and listening), that they can combine the information from those sources in a coherent, well organized, summarized written form, and that they may compare the information from those sources and draw conclusions from them. The time in the integrated task is as follows: You will have 3 minutes to read a passage of 230-300 words. The reading passage is hidden then and you will listen to a 2-minute lecture that is related to the reading passage. The listening may add new information or present a different point of view. You may take notes during both reading and listening part. Then the reading passage is shown again on the screen and you are given 20 minutes to write a response to a question. The response should be between 150-225 words.

To access the whole document, please, visit our TOEFL iBT Writing Tips Section.


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TOEFL iBT Speaking Strategies and Tips

The Speaking section in TOEFL iBT comes right after the 10-minute break. It measures the test taker’s ability to communicate in English orally. The six tasks in the Speaking section are divided into two types – independent speaking tasks (2 tasks) and integrated speaking tasks (4 tasks). Students must prove they are able to speak effectively under the following requirements:

• Deliver adequate oral responses to the questions
• Participate actively in academic discussions
• Participate in everyday conversations
• State a clear opinion about the discussed subjects
• Summarize and orally reproduce the information read in textbooks or heard in the classroom
• Communicate with university officials in libraries, sport centers, housing offices, bookstores, etc.

Hereafter, we list some guidelines about how to prepare and take TOEFL iBT in order to obtain best results. To access the whole document please visit our TOEFL iBT Speaking Tips section.


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TOEFL iBT Listening Strategies and Tips

TOEFL iBT Listening section is delivered immediately after the TOEFL Reading section. The Listening section of TOEFL iBT measures your ability to understand spoken English in academic settings. In TOEFL iBT the listening is done for 3 major purposes:

1. Listening for basic comprehension.
2. Listening for pragmatic understanding.
3. To connect and combine ideas presented in multiple information sources.

Each part of the TOEFL Listening section (2 or 3 parts) consists of 1 long conversation and two lectures. The test takers hear each lecture or conversation only once. Lectures and conversations are 3-5 minutes long. During the listening the time is not running. The allotted time of 10 minutes for each part is only for answering the questions.

To access the whole document please visit our TOEFL iBT Listening Tips.

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TOEFL iBT Reading Strategies and Tips

The first component you will have to do when you sit for the TOEFL iBT exam is the TOEFL Reading. The TOEFL Reading Section measures your ability to read and understand academic texts (passages) in English. Reading is a critical skill in academic environment. Students have to read a lot and comprehend the information presented in their textbooks or other reading materials. As we discussed in TOEFL iBT Format Section on i-Courses.org, three are the main purposes for academic reading in TOEFL iBT:

1. Reading to find information
2. Basic comprehension
3. Reading to learn

The Reading Section in TOEFL iBT consists of 3-5 texts; each text is about 700 words long. Each TOEFL Reading text is followed by 12 - 14 questions related to the text. The first passage stands alone for a time of 20 minutes and the 2nd and 3rd passages share a total time of 40 minutes for reading and answering the questions. The system will cut you off right after the time ends. Therefore, you must be not only good at reading but also very fast.

To the end of this document we will provide some important guidelines on how to prepare for the TOEFL iBT Reading and how to behave at the reading test in order to improve your final score.

To access the whole document please visit our section for TOEFL Strategies.


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TOEFL iBT General Test Taking Strategies

TOEFL iBT is a test that may shape your future. Should you get a good score on it and enter the university you belong to or should you fail to cross the line. For this reason, it is extremely important to devote time and resources and do your best to prepare for TOEFL iBT. In this section we have prepared some strategic tips that may help you throughout your TOEFL preparation process and also during the TOEFL test itself. First you read the general tips and then we have listed component-specific tips for each of the TOEFL iBT sections. We suggest that you allot some time and read them.

For reading or downloading the whole document, please visit our section for TOEFL iBT Tips.

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Full TOEFL iBT Practice Tests

There were launched two full TOEFL Practice tests by i-Courses.org. The full TOEFL iBT tests realisticlaly represent the format and closely follow the academic level of the real TOEFL exam. The software delivering the tests has exactly the same functionality as the software that is used by ETS to run the test. It is web based and thus the students that want to practice do not have to download any additional program to their computers.

From academic perspective both practice exam have the same as real TOEFL components :
* TOEFL Reading Component - 3-5 Reading passages; 60-100 minutes to complete
* TOEFL Listening Component - 4-6 lectures, 2-3 conversations; 60-90 minutes to complete
* TOEFL Speaking Component - 2 independent and 4 integrated components; 20-30 minutes to complete
* TOEFL Writing Component - 1 integrated task - 20 minutes; 1 independent task (essay writing) - 30 minutes.

All components are scored. iBT Reading and iBT Listening Tasks are automatically scored with pre-defined criteria. iBT Speaking and iBT Writing are scored by experienced TOEFL Teachers and extensive feedback is provided within 24 hours.

TOEFL iBT Practice tests provide not only great way to practice and independent feedback on how to improve TOEFL skills but also indespensible reference point about how the test taker perform before the real TOEFL exam.

For more readings and taking some full TOEFL Practice Tests or Free TOEFL Sample Test, please visit i-Courses.org.

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Mini TOEFL iBT Tests

Mini TOEFL iBT Test was uploaded at www.i-courses.org .The mini test covers all TOEFL iBT Sections but it includes less questions for each component.

- TOEFL Mini Reading - 1 passage with 13 questions;
- TOEFL Mini Listening - 1 lecture and 1 conversation with 11 questions;
- TOEFL Mini Speaking - 3 questions;
- TOEFL Mini Writing - 1 integrated task.

It may be used as initial familiarization with the format. TOEFL Mini tests have been set with considerably lower prices.

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