TOEFL Tips

For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org Test of English as a Foreign Language PREPARING STUDENTS for the Computer-Based Test For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org Preparing Students for the Computer-Based Test TOEFL Tips: Preparing Students for the Computer-Based Test has been created for ESL/EFL instructors and educational advisors so they can help students prepare for the computer-based TOEFL® test. It has been prepared by Educational Testing Service (ETS), which develops and scores the TOEFL test. TOEFL Tips can help students do their best on the test. However, it is not meant to replace the TOEFL Information Bulletin for Computer-Based Testing, which contains information students need to make appointments for and become familiar with the test. If you wish to download this booklet, visit the TOEFL Web site at www.toefl.org. 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For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org Table of Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Benefits of TOEFL on computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Section A: Steps in Preparing for the Computer-Based TOEFL Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Step 1: Obtain TOEFL materials in order to begin test preparation . . . . . . 7 Step 2: Learn about the changes in the test format, how the test is structured, and what each test section measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 User-friendly tutorials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Timing of test sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Test format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Listening section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Structure section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Reading section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Writing section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Step 3: Learn how computer-based testing works and is scored . . . . . . . . . . 14 Computer-adaptive testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 How the computer-adaptive sections are scored. . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Computerized nonadaptive testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Step 4: Use test-taking strategies that will allow them to do their best . . . . 15 General test-taking strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Special strategies for each section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 For the Listening section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 For the Structure section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 For the Reading section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 For the Writing section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Section B: Questions Frequently Asked by Students . . . . . . 21 Section C: More About the Essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Essay ratings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Sample writing topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Sample essays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 (continued) For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org Table of Contents (continued) Section D:About the Test Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Score scales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 New score requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Score calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Calculation of the Structure/Writing score. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 At the end of the exam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Concordance Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Using the concordance tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 TOEFL Bulletins and Study Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 How to Contact the TOEFL Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 ... - tailieumienphi.vn