We'll talk about the information later. I want to talk about your schedule first. You didn't explain what the TOEFL test is for. 90% of the cases are for studying in the United States or Canada. Here I assume that you want to apply for a master's degree in America. So you're a junior now. If you plan to continue your graduate studies after graduation, your time is already very, very tight. Now you are only a junior in the fall of 20 1 1, that is, you graduated in the summer vacation of 20 13. 20 13 graduate students who entered the United States in autumn. Generally speaking, the autumn enrollment meeting in the United States will end in 65438+ current year 10. That is to say, if you apply for graduate students on 20 13, you must complete the application before 20 13 1. This is the deadline. 20 13 1 is the end of your last semester in senior three. Taking TOEFL GRE is only a part of the application, and there are still many things to deal with, such as checking majors, choosing schools, personal statements, resumes, letters of recommendation, papers or portfolios. So time is simply not enough. Unless you have a good command of English, you can't pass the TOEFL GRE once. Then go through all the other materials mentioned above. He started acting in September 2008 and entered school in the autumn of 20 10. Just enough time, but still very nervous. So I suggest you start acting immediately, otherwise it will be absolutely too late.
Second, the number of TOEFL calls. Generally speaking, you have to take the exam twice. Of course, an expert can get to 105+ once, so you don't have to take the exam twice. Because there are many unstable factors in taking the TOEFL for the first time, you will find that there is still a lot of room for improvement after taking the TOEFL for the first time, or you will take the TOEFL for the second time out of dissatisfaction. According to my experience, it is normal to take 2-3 exams. A good score in the exam is in exchange for the full bonus of American universities, so 1400 RMB is nothing compared with $30,000+a year. So don't think like that, let go and prepare for the exam. Of course, full preparation is necessary. You are right. After all, it costs more than 1000 at a time. It is best to get the score you need at one time! Again, if you want to apply for the top 150-60 master's degree in the United States, 85 is enough, but if you want to apply for GTA or GRA, it is better to be above 95.
Third, talk about information. I answered a netizen before and copied some of them, but I answered them all.
Let's talk about the difficulty of TOEFL and the difference between review materials and real questions.
It can be said that the real questions are more difficult than the review materials of most businesses. And its difficulty is not only in the test questions, but also in the test of the atmosphere on the spot. Therefore, we should grasp the difficulties when reviewing.
When you talk about the old TOEFL, I think the only valuable thing is the listening part C. Part c of the old TOEFL listening is the predecessor of the new TOEFL IBT listening lecture. The length is shorter than the lecture, but the scene and logic are very similar. If you are not good at listening, as an introduction to listening or a warm-up, you can dictate the old TOEFL Listening PART3. You don't have to look at other parts of the old TOEFL, which is very different.
DELTA: Blue DELTA is mostly classified training, and finally there are four sets of simulation questions. Can be used as a preliminary question to find feelings. But some questions are not very good, especially oral English and writing, which are a little different from the real questions. Reading and listening are not bad. Personally, the comprehensive difficulty of DELTA is about 70% of the real problem. Suitable for early warm-up.
This is a golden book. But it is not difficult, about 70% of the real question. Its value, like TPO, completely analyzes how ETS raises questions. Therefore, the role of OG is mainly not training, but research and ponder.
The following focuses on the information of intensive training:
The most valuable part of Balaam Balaam is listening to jokes. The pure listening part of Balang's listening is more difficult than the real question, especially the length, which is definitely longer than the real question. The theme, logic and style are very close to the real question. But the questions are too simple, and some questions don't need to be understood at all. They can be selected through logical relations or even common sense. Therefore, the most valuable part of Balang's listening is the pure listening part, which is regarded as intensive training of listening skills by countless people. I think the mid-term intensive training must be practiced with Balang. Balang's reading is ok, but it is more difficult than Bedelta, but it is still different from the real question. I can't say anything different. Perhaps this is the uniqueness of the ETS real question. But overall, Balang is still very good. If I suggest, Balang only does listening, which is used for mid-term reinforcement. The difficulty of Balang's listening passage is 120% of the real difficulty.
TPO: It is absolutely strongly recommended that in the middle and late stages, especially those who want to take the 100+ exam, they must study TPO seriously. It can be considered that TPO is the real problem. Now TPO is 23 years old. If we can thoroughly study these 23 sets of real questions, the consequences will be absolutely unimaginable. It may be a bit exaggerated, but it really works. Especially familiar with the genre, discussion mode, topic point, logical characteristics and so on. If you can integrate with TPO in the later stage, you will have a very familiar feeling when you take the real exam. I just had such an experience, and there were only 13 sets at that time, and I only studied 10 sets in depth. I found that the real question was exactly the same as TPO during the exam, so I changed the medicine. The average difficulty of the existing TPO is 90% of the current real problem, but the similarity is 100%.
High score 120. This information includes books and model testing software, which can be downloaded. Generally speaking, the difficulty is the biggest of all materials. But the questions are not good, reading and listening, too many details, countless details, too much neglect of logic and the whole. But it can also be used as a holding state.
Vocabulary book: Li Xiaolai's "Get TOEFL Vocabulary 2 1 day" is highly recommended. If this book is relatively stable, you can choose Zhang Hongyan's Word Segmentation by Category. If you still want to take the GRE, you can recite the core vocabulary of GRE directly after "2 1 day" is finished. In fact, you can master 2 1 day completely, and you can read 24+.
To sum up: choose materials according to your actual level and feeling. Generally speaking: pre-warm-up: DELTA, OG, mid-term strengthening: listening to Balang, reading TPO, speaking TPO, writing 185 question bank of TPO and OG, or Li Xiaolai's 185 analysis. Late sprint: take the TPO mock exam in the real exam time, study TPO and OG repeatedly, and get a high score of 120 when you have time (if the TPO research is not good, it is best not to get a high score of 120).
Finally, the new TOEFL is an online test with no real questions. Students can't save the exam questions from the internet and take them out of the examination room. This is why the new TOEFL is repeated from the question bank. 1 1 12 An exam in June may be exactly the same as an exam in March 2009. It's ok to weigh it, because the candidates couldn't get it before. The only set of real questions published by ETS is TPO. So TPO is a gold-grade material. Now there are 23 sets of TPO. I suggest you go to the stupid forum more often. Bbs.taisha.org, there are countless valuable downloads of TOEFL, and there are many experiences posted to your friends.
Finally, hurry up and review smoothly.