IELTS TRAINING CENTRE KENYA - IELTS PREPARATION | OET | TOEFL | PTE | GRE | DUOLINGO
Title: IELTS TRAINING CENTRE KENYA - IELTS PREPARATION | OET | TOEFL | PTE | GRE | DUOLINGO
How to Prepare for TOEFL | Get a High TOEFL Score
Are you taking the TOEFL exam (Test of English as a Foreign Language) soon? If you are, you need a TOEFL test preparation plan. It does not matter if you are taking the TOEFL iBT or the TOEFL Essentials test version. Our test prep strategy will help you study towards achieving a high TOEFL score.
To get that high TOEFL score, you must understand how the test format, your skill level and the different TOEFL question types all influence how you should prepare for the TOEFL most effectively.
UMI's TOEFL test preparation focuses on planning and strategies. First, let’s look at how the TOEFL test is structured and the level of your English skills will determine your personal TOEFL exam preparation strategy.
What Is the TOEFL Exam?
The TOEFL exam is designed to test your level of English proficiency. It is used by universities for academic admission purposes and by governments for immigration and permanent residency applications. Both TOEFL iBT and TOEFL Essentials are used by businesses and professional bodies to assess peoples’ ability to communicate in English for hiring and promotion.
For a helpful lesson and overview of the TOEFL exam, take some time to watch our comprehensive TOEFL overview video lesson:
What Is on the TOEFL Exam and TOEFL Score Report?
Both versions of TOEFL; TOEFl iBT and TOEFL Essentials – have four sections:
- Reading
- Listening
- Speaking
- Writing
A good place to start thinking about the best way of preparing for the TOEFL exam is by looking at how you will be scored. An official TOEFL iBT test taker score report, which you will receive after you complete the test, looks like this:
TOEFL Exam Scoring: Total Score and Score by Skills
The TOEFL score report gives you five different scores – a total TOEFL score and four separate scores for your reading, listening, speaking and writing section performance.
Your TOEFL total score is calculated using a 0 to 120 scale, with a perfect score in the TOEFL exam being 120. The report above shows that the candidate did perfectly, with an overall score of 120, which is equivalent to a high C2 CEFR level.
Your total score is calculated by adding together your separate skills scores. In other words, the most important score for preparation purposes is not the total score, it is your performance on each of the separate section scores.
The TOEFL score report gives you a separate score for each of your listening, reading, writing and speaking skill levels, using a 30 point scale. Note that in the example above, the test taker received a perfect score of TOEFL 30 for all skills.
The difference in your skill levels will impact on your personal exam preparation strategy, which we will discuss further below.
TOEFL Exam Tip 1: Know your Skill Levels Before you Begin Preparing
It is essential to know your skill levels BEFORE you begin preparing for the TOEFL exam. This information will give you the core of your exam preparation strategy. Knowing your strong and weak skills is vital. The big problem is that you won’t receive your TOEFL score report until after taking the TOEFL exam.
