TOEFL exam Pattern and Preparation Start Ups

Almost all people who take the TOEFL test are planning to study at colleges and universities where instruction is in English. In addition, many government agencies, scholarship programs, and licensing/certification agencies use TOEFL scores to evaluate English proficiency.

The TOEFL is an Internet-based test and has four sections in it. It is approximately four hours long. All four sections can be taken on one day. Note-taking is allowed throughout the test to help test takers answer the questions.

Sections of the test are as below:-

Reading
Three to five academic reading passages, followed by comprehension questions

Listening
Two conversations that include two or more speakers in each. Four lectures, which include classroom dialogue.

Speaking
6 questions, where you have to speak about something you have heard or read.

Writing
Two writing tasks, one involves reading and listening.

This means that to have a good score in TOEFL, all these areas must be perfected well. And for this a lot of hard work is to be put in these areas.

Few important things you could start off with is listening to vocabulary boosters or cd’s which not only increases your word power, but also improves your listening skills. Listening to these will help you in pronunciation of words and also you have to observe how speaker reads out sentences or the words. Thus it indirectly helps you in reading and speaking to a extent. This is a basic step for all TOEFL takers can start off with.

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