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.

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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.

There are two tasks in the Writing section of the TOEFL iBT: an Integrated Writing Task and an Independent Writing Task.

The Integrated Writing task comes first because it involves some listening, and when you are taking the real TOEFL iBT you will wear your headphones. When you are finished with the Integrated Writing Task, which takes about 20 minutes, you will be free to take your headphones off to work on the Independent Writing Task. You will have 30 minutes to complete the Independent Writing Task.

This chapter discusses each of the writing tasks in detail and the scoring criteria that readers will use to evaluate your writing. It includes samples of each task, sample responses to each task, and specific advice on how to approach writing your own response.

For both the writing tasks on the TOEFL iBT, the people evaluating your writing recognize that your response is a first draft. You are not expected to produce a well-researched, comprehensive essay about a highly specific, specialized topic. You can earn a high score with an essay that contains some errors.

Your first task when you begin reading is to answer the question “What is the topic of the selection?” This can best be answered by quickly skimming the passage for the general idea, stopping to read only the first sentence of each paragraph. A paragraph’s first sentence is usually the main topic sentence, and it gives you a summary of the content of the paragraph.

Once you’ve skimmed the passage, stopping to read only the first sentences, you will have a general idea about what it is about, as well as what is the expected topic in each paragraph.

Each question will contain clues as to where to find the answer in the passage. Do not just randomly search through the passage for the correct answer to each question. Search scientifically. Find key word(s) or ideas in the question that are going to either contain or be near the correct answer. These are typically nouns, verbs, numbers, or phrases in the question that will probably be duplicated in the passage. Once you have identified those key word(s) or idea, skim the passage quickly to find where those key word(s) or idea appears. The correct answer choice will be nearby.

Example: What caused Martin to suddenly return to Paris?

All international applicants who are nonnative speakers of English should provide evidence of their level of English proficiency prior to beginning academic work at an institution where English is the language of instruction. TOEFL scores are frequently required for the following categories of applicants:

Learn about speaking section in this video.

Two basic types of the TOEFL test exist: a computer-based test (CBT) and a paperbased test (PBT). Until a few years ago, everyone taking the TOEFL test used a pencil and paper version. But now, the computer-based test is given almost everywhere in the world. This book gives you lots of information about how to take the computer-based test, because that is the version you will probably be required to take.

You can take a paper-based test (PBT) only in areas where the CBT is not available. The Supplemental TOEFL Administration Program provides the PBT in areas where the CBT isn’t offered.

The questions asked on the CBT and the PBT are very similar. However, the method of answering those questions differs. On the PBT, each answer choice is assigned a letter: for example, A, B, C, and D. On the CBT, answer choices are not lettered; you simply click with your mouse on the correct answer choice. In this book, we use letters to label answer choices for clarity, even though you won’t see those letters appear on the TOEFL test computer screen.

Many students delay the test preparation process because they dread the awful amounts of practice time they think necessary to succeed on the test. There is an effective method that will take you only a fraction of the time. There are a number of “obstacles” in your way on the IELTS. Among these are answering questions, finishing in time, and mastering test-taking strategies. All must be executed on the day of the test at peak performance, or your score will suffer.

The IELTS is a mental marathon that has a large impact on your future. Just like a marathon runner, it is important to work your way up to the full challenge. So first you just worry about questions, and then time, and finally strategy:

Some useful advices which will help you to pass speaking section.