Originally Posted by
khaostheory
I took the iBT last February and becuz u asked for experience, here's mine ^^:
- First, the speaking section is damn hard, you have to have a good reflextion to be able to prepare a speech in 15 secs, and then 60 secs to talk. I remembered one of my question, my very first one, is: " What's your fav things to do in summer and briefly explain why. " To be honets, i was taken by suprise and did pretty bad on that question, but later, when u get the gears to work, things get easier.
- The same thing happen for the reading section. NEVER ever reading the whole thing first. You probably heard that tip before somewhere, and it's TRUE. ( i got 29/30 for reading). I tried to read the whole thing for first question, and quickly realise that it's painful, and way too uneccessary. So i start to skip and focus on certain detail.
- Listening is....bad. It's bad not because it's hard, but because in iBT, different ppl take the test at different time, so when i was doing my listening, the bastard who's next to me do the speaking. And he annoyed me way too much. I can't even focus on my test. BE PREPARED for such situation !!!!!
- Last is writing. Again, rumors get it right, u shouldn't repeat the question in the opening paragraph, or u'll have to suffer. Try to practice at home to get a high words-per-minute rate, speed up your typing skill would help A LOT.
Those are my experience, i got 104 for the total btw. I know it's not verygood, but enough for me. ^^.
PS: i assume that u wanna take the test, so i wrote those things in Eng since i'm not very good with VNese. If i bug you, i apology. ^^.