MyTOEFL iBT Experience

[Ngồ NGỘ]

This experience was initiated by someone from ETS asking me to "try pilot the new TOEFL". I was simply asked to try the new TOEFL and rewarded a voucher to do the test and $70 in adittion.

----Yes I took the new TOEFL iBT today which will start at September this year? ... here is some insight about the new TOEFL ---

Brief Introduction

There are some changes in the design and in the structure of the test. It looks more interesting and sophisticated than the previous one. Buttons are three dimensional and located conveniently at the top.

First you do to the reading, listening, speaking, and finally writting. Please note that there is no grammar section on the new TOEFL.

To provide articulate anaylsis on all these sections.. please let me start

Reading

Thee is much change a the reading party, and pretty much similar to the previous version. However, it may seems more workable as they divide the reading into 2 separate sections. Each section contain 2 readings with given time. Although basically its the same, at least you are not bombarded with 4 at once.

Here are some new kind of questions which rarely appear on the old version
-Find a best sentence which describe the selected sentence on the passage (correct sentence should contain accurate information based on the passage)

-Making prediction / Projection. Its kindda silly and lil bit hard though this part.. all answers seems similar to me since no answer is included on the passage; basically its a test of luck?

-Summary. There will be one senence to introduce you for something, then you should choose few alternative that best suit the introduction. This question weighted more than usual question

-Please be aware. Many old questions type still come out. Such as inference, the main topic? why? what? what the words specifically mean? add a sentence to the passage? .. yea so basically its pretty much the same ^^ ..

[Ngồ NGỘ]

Listening

In my opinion the listening is much more painful than the previous one. THERE are 3 sections of the listening. Each section gives you 10 minute to answer 2 LECTURE and 1 CONVERSATION. So in total 6 BIG LECTURES and 3 CONVERSATIONS

Conversaion
-Again, it somehow still look the same. There are 2 friends discussing , or even beween admission staff and student. Most conversation took place at academic setting. This part basically easy as you easily can grasph the conversation. Model question still similar to the previous one

LECTURE
Hahahaha.. one interesting thing I notice in the lecture is, the professor not as rigid as the previous one. The old TOEFL seems like the prof is a talking robot which talk english like ..er...er....er. but this time, IT GETS MORE REAL!. the professor could say "hahaha..." "uhm..." "ooh..o" .. whatever anything you can think of. Lectures are long and painful to hear. Today I heard Biology , Astronomy, History, Arts , etc

--NEW MODEL OF QUESTION
**You may need be asked why the professor say something like the professor might suddenly stop the conversation *Uh, I might give guess why it happen!" the possible answer is (professor dun wan to answer the student, professor think the answer is obvious... professor think that the answer will be difficult .. etc)... You need to understand this realm kind of situation

**YOU MAY TAKE NOTES during the listening part. I don't found this as helpful, rather I think its a real distraction for me. Once I started to write something I realized that they are asking you something you dun need to write. its not a knowledge question like test or whatever..

**You may be asked to fill up a table. Questions like this are carrying greater weight. You should distinguish and cross-check certain characteristics (they give u table anyway -- and you cross which one belongs to who) .. or simply they give u some characteristics and you cross yes or no for each one of them

**Summary. Yes...yes! again summary is there. You should summarize why certain argument is untrue.. or its true (summarize the given fact)

thats all... bout listening

[fhome.vn]

Thank for share

[mrkillerxike]

Thanks for share

[Orlan]

Thanks this is useful post for students...