In TOEIC Tips 2, we talked about managing your time. It was pointed out that your best bet when preparing for your TOEIC exam is to use a flexible schedule that lets you adjust to all the different things that will happen during your day. Tight schedules can just make you give up on time management when you find it hard to stick to them. Choose and schedule the top three activities each day that will bring you the closest to a high score on your TOEIC test.

Now we're going to look at some specific advice for tackling the TOEIC test questions. One of the big secrets about standardized exams like the TOEIC is that there are two ways to sail through them: you can either know the answers to the questions or you can know how to answer the questions. (You should be somewhat competent in both areas.) What's the difference? Well, if you know the answers to the questions 100% of the time on the TOEIC, you don't need a formula. But if you don't know the answers to the questions, the formula will help you to find them. To do well on essay questions on the TOEIC exam, the formula is in the structure. If you have the structure right, finding the right facts and arguments to slot into place will be easy. Here's how to create a structure that you can use to perform well on any essay question on the TOEIC test.

Part 2 of the TOEIC Test Preparation, group help-sheets.
This post’s subject is: I Scored High on the TOEIC by using a time management Idea
In the previous blog, we talked about procrastination. I showed you how you can use your procrastination so called "skills" to ensure that you complete all your things to do so you
score high on your TOEIC test. Just be doing this you will be ahead of about 50% of the other TOEIC test takers if you organize your test preparation activities with the most important
activities first and allow enough time to prepare. These help-sheets contain some strategies and tips that will greatly increase your test score if used and not just read and then forgotten.

Hello!

Welcome to the first in the series of TOEIC test tips. Let's get started.... 

In this first blog, we tackle a nasty problem that affects just about everyone who takes the TOEIC test - procrastination. How can you procrastinate and still score high on the TOEIC test? There's a pretty good chance that you've got about a thousand different things to do right now. Many of those things are probably more pressing than looking at your email or checking your phone messages. But instead of reviewing the next chapter in your text book or going over your TOEIC preparation notes, you're reading your email and telling yourself that you'll do some more TOEIC test practice a little later. That's procrastination: the tendency to avoid doing today what you think you can do tomorrow. Likely, you'll avoid doing what you need to do tomorrow also. But procrastination isn't the same as doing nothing -- you are doing something right now -- and understanding that, is the key to getting everything done. Procrastinators aren't lazy, they just avoid the things they should be doing... and do something else instead. Procrastination is just doing the right things in the wrong order. Think of it this way: procrastinators aren't people who sit around doing nothing -- they're people who sit around doing slightly important things (like reading emails or organizing their bookshelves) before they do the really important things (like summarizing Chapter 3 or taking another TOEIC practice test). If that sounds like you, don't blame yourself; blame the way you ordered your tasks. According to psychologists, there are several reasons why people procrastinate, and there are all sorts of theories about how to beat it. Forget about beating it. You've probably been procrastinating for years and if I try to tell you how to beat it, you'll probably just put it off.

1. You are like a new baby
   Babies learn their language slowly.
   First they learn to listen.
   Then they learn to talk.
   Finally, they can read and write.
2. Listen to English every day
   Listen to English radio.
   Watch English TV.
   Go to English movies.
   Use online lessons.
3. Make an English/ESL friend
   Make up conversations.
   Practise dialogues.
   Use beginner textbooks.
4. Read English stories
   Start with children's storybooks.
   Read advertisements, signs and labels.