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Josif of Serbia originally scored an 89 with (R22, L22, S20, and W25) on the TOEFL iBT. Wanting to major in computer science at NC State University, Josif needs to improve by a total of 11 points needing a minimal TOEFL score of 100 to be admitted. Struggling in his listening, reading, and speaking skills, Josif conducted a series of searches online to find the best TOEFL course to help improve his academic English. Eventually Josif found Michael Buckoff’s Online TOEFL Course “The 7-Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT.” When researching Michael’s website, Josif found that Michael has helped thousands of TOEFL students reach their goals for over ten years! In addition he has been told by students like Marko that the 7-Step System has some of the best and most comprehensive lesson plans to improve one’s English and TOEFL scores around the web. Liking this, Josif decided to join Michael’s website to improve his TOEFL score so that he can become successful in attaining a computer science degree at NC State University. Soon through hard work and effective study habits in Michaels 7 step system, Josif improved his listening, reading, and speaking skills with remarkable fluidity and proficiency.
With the listening section, Josif learned to catch the main ideas and important details of campus-related and academic listening passages. By learning how to take notes and practicing taking notes as he completed 40 + listening practice tests, Josif learned to understand the characteristics of natural speech by developing a note-taking system during these lessons that helped make it easier for him to complete many TOEFL iBT tasks. In addition with the listening section, Josif picked up additional tips and tricks: inferencing, idioms, negative expressions, getting the main idea, and understanding transitions. With all this, Josif developed a note-taking system that better prepared him for the reading and integrated speaking lessons in Michael’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT.”
With the reading section, Josif improved his reading proficiency by completing over 70 academic speed reading practice tests, testing students’ ability to read from 100 to 350 words per minute. In the first lesson, Josif was taught how to read academic passages and how to take notes of these passages so he would be able to create organized responses during integrated writing and integrated speaking tasks. Furthermore, Josif engaged in an extensive reading campaign in which he regularly read for about 50 minutes daily and continued to regularly read each day until he read from a computer screen at a speed of 342 words per minute with 80% comprehension. Eventually with the reading section, Josif learned effective reading habits such as discerning main ideas and details, understanding vocabulary from context, understanding the organization of reading passages including transitions, and having the ability to make inferences. With this in mind, it seemed that Josif felt ready to improve his speaking fluency and proficiency because I and other TOEFL iBT specialists saw him working on various integrated and independent speaking task in the speaking section of Michael’s 7-Step System.
With the speaking section, Josif had over 40 independent and 43 integrated practice tests plus 100′s of skill-building exercises to improve his speaking skills. With instruction teaching him competent speaking skills like decoding the speaking task, organizing a coherent response including a topic statement, delivering rich details in the body of the speech, and ending with a conclusion, Josif began to develop intelligible pronunciation in English. Furthermore with 1000′s of pronunciation drills and practice tests in Michael’s pronunciation section, Josif had extensive instruction in vowel and consonants sounds, word stress, intonation, and pausing of certain words and phrases. Eventually, Josif developed remarkable speaking proficiency in academic English, such that he attempted to retake the TOEFL for a better score.
In the end, when Josif decided to retake the TOEFL, he scored a 101 (R26, L24, S26, and W25). He had improved by a total of 12 points! With Michael Online TOEFL Course “The 7-Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT,” Josif checked with Michael through email and noted that he had been admitted to a major in computer science at NC State University. Originally he had scored an 89 with (R22, L22, S20, and W25) on the TOEFL iBT, and Michael’s website seemed to help Josif achieve his TOEFL goals as it has for countless others in the past 10 years. All in all, with Michael’s 7-step system, Josif improved his listening, reading, and speaking skills with remarkable proficiency. So, if you would like to improve in any area of difficulty such as vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, reading, listening, speaking, or writing, join the Online TOEFL Course “The 7-Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT,” and reach TOEFL success!
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