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Earlier this year, Ismail who is 29 years of age feared he would not be able to continue his education in order to receive his M.D.  Struggling to improve his reading and listening skills in time enough, Ismail had a set requirement to score at least 80 on the TOEFL iBT to enter his university master’s program; however, Ismail felt his language in English needed to be strongly improved on, especially with regards to his reading and listening abilities. Although Ismail read many books such as Longman’s or Barron’s preparatory TOEFL iBT manuals, he could still not get a good score on the exam. Ismail’s most recent score is 76 with: R-17, L-18, S-20, and W-21. Only 4 points away from meeting his target score, Ismail reluctantly joined Michael’s Online TOEFL Course: “The 7 step system to Pass the TOEFL iBT.”

Ismail’s early comments to Michael were as follows:

“Michael please let me know how you can help me.

I took my Toefl test this month, but i didn’t get good score. My last score is 76 with: R-17, L-18, S-20, and W-21.

I tried many books like longman & barron’s but the problem is when i practice in this book and calculate my score on

reading and listening i got good score and when i go to the real test the reading is so hard for me and i perform poorly.

Please help me reach over 80 to continue my education to receive my master’s degree.

What do you suggest in my case?

Warmest regards,

Ismail”

First Ismail was suggested to review Michael’s reading section. With Michael’s reading section, Ismail was able to learn effective key reading skills! For example with Michael’s numerous academic speed reading practice tests, Ismail was able to test his ability to read from 100 to 350 words per minute.  Because of this and Michael’s exclusive reading lessons, Ismail 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.

Second Ismail was suggested to review Michael’s listening section. With Michael’s listening section, Ismail was able to analyze his listening strengths and weaknesses! For example, by learning to catch the main idea and important details of campus-related and academic listening passages with Michael’s exclusive listening lessons, Ismail learned tips and tricks such as: inferencing, idioms, negative expressions, getting the main idea, and understanding transitions. Because of this, Ismail was able to become more effective when writing and giving oral summaries about the different lectures at hand.

Thus as a result of Michael’s course, Ismail successfully received 83/120 on TOEFL iBT with 24/30 in reading and a 25/30 in listening; suffice enough to continue onwards to his master’s degree program. All by the help of the exercises, practice tests, and lesson plans available to Ismail in Michael’s reading and listening sections. Like Ismail, have you been anxiously looking for a solution to score higher on the TOEFL? Then consider taking time to develop your TOEFL skills like Ismail and join Michael’s renowned online course for as low as $38 per month!

 

Giulia’s native tongue is Italian. Having spoken Italian for most of her life, Giulia toiled for much time when first learning English as her secondary language. Such that during her learning process, Giulia could not seem to do any better to improve her reading. Reason being, Giulia was not able to score higher than a 21 on the TOEFL iBT reading section. In view of her own problem, Giulia sought the help of instructor Michael Buckhoff: the materials writer, founder, owner and teacher for his Online TOEFL Course “The 7-Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT.”

Giulia’s preliminary comments to Michael were as follows:

“Mr. Buckhoff,

I have been studying for Toefl so long and my reading is suffering.  I really have tough time with my reading section Michael, don’t know for some reason I am not really doing well in that and kind of frustrated.

I really need your help.

Looking forward for your reply!

Thanks,

Giulia”

Having sought the help of Michael’s course when Giulia first enrolled, Giulia’s situation was examined by materials writer and instructor Michael Buckhoff. Based on Giulia’s history and intended goal, Giulia’s was recommended to study Michael’s exclusive reading section to meet her reading goal.

By means of Michael’s reading section, Giulia was first taught how to read academic reading passages and how to take notes of these passages so she was better able to create organized responses during the integrated writing and integrated speaking tasks. In addition, Giulia engaged in an extensive reading campaign in which she regularly read for about 45 minutes daily and continued to regularly read each day until she was able to read from a computer screen at a speed of 218 words per minute with 80% comprehension.

Furthermore with 70 academic speed reading practice tests testing her ability to read from 100 to 350 words per minute, Giulia was able to learn effective reading strategies such as: how to discern main ideas and details, understand vocabulary from context, understand the organization of reading passages including transitions, and having the ability to make inferences.

Ultimately because of this, Giulia truly learned to discern key main ideas from supporting ideas with Michael’s reading section. As a result, Giulia scored 25/30 upon her next TOEFL exam!

Giulia’s final comments to Michael were as follows:

“Hey Michael,

I just passed my TOEFL iBT with a score of 86 and 25/30 in reading! All thanks to your many freely offered tips on YouTube. Your site is so rich in formation, that at first it was difficult for me to get what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing and giving so much good advice.

Continue the good work!

Giulia”

All in all, with lessons like Michael’s reading section, S.T.E.A.T.H students like Giulia completed various reading exercises and practice tests to improve their scores on the TOEFL iBT. Like Giulia, do you need extra help with your reading understanding or perhaps you’re reading strategies and or intelligibility in American English? Then enroll in Michael’s online course today and receive exclusive reading lessons and feedback to reach your best possible TOEFL score in real time.

With constant studying, how long have you been trying to reach your goal on the TOEFL with no success? Despite studying hard for the TOEFL, you cannot seem to get your ideal results right? This was the situation for Rosalia; thankfully, Michael’s Online TOEFL Course “The 7 step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT” was her solution. In Rosalia’s situation, she could not seem improve her listening at all. Why you may ask? Because Rosalia could not seem to connect all the main ideas and connections within the listening too her responses, thus resulting in her listening score repeatedly averaging between 18 or 19. Furthermore with regards to her writing skills, Rosalia still had trouble writing responses with correct grammar and word forms, thus she could not move beyond a score of 20/30 for quite some time.  Due to this, Rosalia was urged to review both Michael’s listening and writing sections in order to boost her academic abilities in listening and writing.

Rosalia opening comments were as follows:

“Hello Michael,

As you know daily i am practicing on my speaking part. But I’m bit worried about listening section, daily i keep a track on my listening scores, but still my score is 18 or 19. I am not able to cross 20 on listening section. Bit frustrated and really worried. I listen to TED videos and other news videos.

I put full concentration and answer all the questions correctly, but i get bit distracted or subject won’t be interesting so i lose points. What to do for this? Please give me some advice. And please help on basic grammar and also advanced one, I am not able to cross 20 for writing.

Waiting for your reply, Have a nice day.

Rosalia”

To start with, Rosalia was introduced to Michael’s listening section. By help of Michael’s listening section, Rosalia attained important listening tips and tricks such as: inferencing, idioms, negative expressions, getting the main idea, and understanding transitions. As a direct result, Rosalia successfully learned to catch the main idea and important details of campus-related and academic listening passages after two months. Moreover, by learning how to take notes and practicing taking notes as she completed 40 + listening practice tests, Rosalia became effective in writing and giving oral summaries of the different lectures. As a direct result, Rosalia was averaging at scores between 23 or 24 in her listening by the end of her subscription.

Moving on, Rosalia was introduced to Michael’s writing section afterwards. By help of Michael’s writing section, Rosalia gained competence in independent and integrated writing skills like: decoding the writing task, organizing a coherent response, writing detailed developmental paragraphs, and ending the essay with a conclusion. With 40 independent and 43 integrated practice tests plus 100’s of skill-building exercises targeting one’s writing proficiency and sentence organization, Rosalia truly improve her overall word choice, punctuation, transitions, topic development and writing organization. As a direct result, Rosalia was averaging at scores between 24 or 25 in her writing by the end of her subscription.

Taking everything into consideration, when it came time for Rosalia to take her next TOEFL examination on January 16, 2014; Rosalia reported back a score of 92 with R-23, L-24, S-21, and W-24! Having final reached her expectations on the TOEFL as a direct result of Michael’s exclusive lessons, would you like to achieve similar results? Then don’t hesitate to send us an email and your concerns with be addressed promptly!

In the past, Arnav took many TOEFL practice courses and private tutors but could not seem to obtain the required marks on the TOEFL. Needing new practice tips, Arnav formerly stumbled upon Michael’s Online TOEFL Course: “The 7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT.” Because Arnav was only able to score 59/120, Michael suggested that Arnav review his 90-Day TOEFL Study Guide to maximize his academic English proficiency.
A native-born citizen from India, Arnav aimed to score at least 83/120 on the TOEFL iBT before starting his master’s program in spring 2014. Nonetheless, in order for Arnav to enroll in his master degree program in Iowa University, Arnav needed to score an 83/120 minimum to receive admission. For this reason, Arnav was recommended to study Michael’s 90 day, day to day lesson plan composed of exercises and lessons in: vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, reading, listening, and writing.
First of all, when completing vocabulary lessons, Arnav aim to study words long enough until he was comfortable using them. Having engaged in vocabulary exercises, listening exercises, and practice tests for mastery of 1,700 TOEFL words; Arnav was eventually able to support his generalizations and ideas in the speaking and writing with more key details and accurate vocabulary because of Michael’s vocabulary section.

Second of all, when working on Michael’s pronunciation lessons, Arnav was able to improve his pronunciation weaknesses by performing multiple vowel and constant exercises plus thousands of pronunciation drills and practice tests. When working on Michael’s speaking lessons, Arnav was able to build an organized approach to speaking with 300 independent and 20 integrated practice tests plus 100′s of skill-building exercises.

Third of all, when completing reading lessons, Arnav learned effective reading skills such as: discerning main ideas and details, how to understand vocabulary from context, how to understand the organization of reading passages including transitions, and having the ability to make inferences. Because of this, by soon taking Michael’s academic speed reading practice tests, it was determined that Arnav was able to read at a reading speed of 165 words per minute.

Fourth of all, with Michael’s listening exercises, Arnav learned to catch the main idea and important details of campus-related and academic listening passages. How so? By Arnav learning how to take notes and practicing how to take notes as he completed 40 plus listening practice tests. Your notes can be effective in writing and giving oral summaries of the different lectures. Because of this, Arnav soon developed a note-taking system that better prepared him for the integrated and independent writing lessons in Michael’s 90 Day Lesson Plan.

Lastly, with Michael’s grammar lessons, Arnav improved his punctuation, editing, and writing by: learning basic and advanced sentence structures, verb tenses, word choice, and word forms. In addition, while working on Michael’s writing exercises, Arnav gained competence in independent and integrated writing skills such as: decoding the writing task, organizing a coherent response, and writing detailed developmental paragraphs. Because of this, Arnav improved his overall writing proficiency and sentence organization with Michael’s writing lessons.

Like Arnav, with Michael’s 90 Day Lesson Plan you can maximize your abilities in academic English proficiency as well. So consider subscribing and begin the steps you need toward TOEFL success! All the same, Arnav finally earned the score he had been studying hard for with Michael’s 90-Day Study Guide. Just after 4 months studying TOEFL with Michael, Arnav reluctantly scored an 85 with R-22, L-20, S-20, and W-23!

English-test.net: There are few web sites as big or as content rich.

In the TOEFL preparation part of the web site, you will find ample practice with vocabulary. If you diligently study at the web site, you can learn learn many adjective and verb forms of the words you are studying. To reinforce your knowledge of the words you are studying, you can play voabulary games. There are even some great tips on how to improve your vocabulary.

In addition, the web site offers a TOEFL forum in which you can post responses to writing practice test questions, and you can get comments from other students preparing for the TOEFL exam.

Therefore, if you have not been to English-test.net and if you want to find others who are just as serious about getting a high score on the TOEFL as you are, then maybe it is time to visit this site: http://www.english-test.net/toefl/

Just from the 3,196 Facebook likes, it is easy to see that TestMagic is a popular web site for students preparing for the TOEFL.  That is a whole lot of likes!

One particular point of interest is the TOEFL forum in which students can post independent practice tests and get feedback from others. Hundreds of essays are posted in real time, and you can read comments from other users about those essays.

Another benefit of visiting TestMagic is the opportunity to see sample TOEFL essays posted from some of TestMagic’s TOEFL writing specialists. Currently, TestMagic has close to thirty model essays, all of which will help you to see how to coherently organize and develop your responses during the actual independent and integrated writing tasks of the TOEFL iBT.

Finally, there is simply so much valuable content at this site that it is not possible to list all of it here. Nonetheless, there is one more thing worth mentioning about the site: it allows visitors to subscribe to a weekly newsletter explaining TOEFL test-taking tips and strategies.  Subscribe today to get this valuable newsletter.

Therefore, to take advantage of this content-rich web site and get on track to achieving a high TOEFL score, take some time right now to visit TestMagic: http://www.testmagic.com/toefl/

There is a web site titled “Free TOEFL Tests and Resources,” and it definitely lives up to its name.

The web site offers links for learning English, links to top-notch TOEFL books, a TOEFL listening test, a TOEFL reading test, TOEFL speaking test, TOEFL vocabulary practice, and a TOEFL writing practice test.

In addition, you can get some sound TOEFL preparation tips so that you can feel competent as you begin your journey to get a high score on the exam. Furthermore, “Free TOEFL Tests and Resources” outlines 6 steps toward TOEFL exam success.

Therefore, if you are serious about preparing for and getting a high score on the TOEFL iBT exam, you should take a moment to check out the content at this site: http://toefl.edu.vn/

There is a web site called Exam English, which offers Free TOEFL practice tests for learners of English.

First, if you need to take the TOEFL iBT or PBT versions, you can learn everything you need to know by going to this web site.

Second, the web site offers reading, listening, structure, and vocabulary practice tests to help you improve your academic English. Particularly, the vocabulary section of the web site gives you the Academic Word List, and even gives you practice to test the mastery of the words.  The Academic Word List consists of frequently occurring words that you should learn in order to meaningfully improve your academic English proficiency.

Finally, among other benefits, the web site will give you some important tips to help you perform better when you take the exam. If you are serious about improving your academic English proficiency and want to learn more about the iBT and PBT TOEFL exams, please consider visiting this site: http://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/index.php

Pranee’s biggest dream is to study in America to become a pharmacist. Originally from Thailand, Pranee scored low scores on the reading and listening section of the TOEFL iBT. Because of this, Pranee enrolled in Michael’s Online TOEFL Course: “The 7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT.” Believing Michael would help her to improve in her weaknesses, Pranee was introduced to Michael’s exclusive reading and listening sections; composed of numerous lessons, exercises, and practice tests for Michael’s STEALTH can optimize their skills and perform optimally in given reading and listening tasks. Because of this, in the end, Pranee successfully reported back a personal TOEFL iBT high score of 105 with: R=27, L=25, S=26 and W=27!

Pranee’s initial comments are as follows:

“Dear Mr. Buckhoff,

I am interested in studying the TOEFL course with you.

I would like to pursue my biggest dream that I am able to study in the University in America.

I want to become a pharmacist.

I am currently living in Thailand; I have been living here for nearly 20 years.
My English level may be intermediate.

My last TOEFL test scored as: R=23, L=22, S=26, W=27.

I would appreciate it, if you could give me an advice because I don’t know where to start and I strongly believe that you can help me.

Kind regards

Pranee”.

With Michael’s reading and listening sections, Pranee developed her reading and listening abilities. With the reading section, Pranee had 70 academic speed reading practice tests testing his ability to read from 100 to 350 words per minute. In addition, with Michael’s exclusive reading lessons, Pranee learned effective reading habits such as: how to discern main ideas and details, how to understand vocabulary from context, how to understand the organization of reading passages including transitions, and having the ability to make inferences.

Moreover, with the listening section, Pranee learned to catch the main idea and important details of campus-related and academic listening passages. In addition, with Michael’s listening section, Pranee had 15 hours of informative video instruction and over 40 academic listening practice tests to test her listening strength and weaknesses. Because of this and Michael’s exclusive listening lessons, Pranee learned tips and tricks such as: inferencing, idioms, negative expressions, getting the main idea, and understanding transitions. In the end, because of this, Pranee began noticing drastic improvements with her own reading and listening abilities and commented how she felt ready to retake the TOEFL iBT Exam.

In the end, Pranee successfully reported back a personal TOEFL iBT high score of 105 with: R=27, L=25, S=26 and W=27! So like Pranee, have you been needing a solution to your low TOEFL scores? Then join Michael’s renowned 7 Step System like Pranee and began your journey to the high TOEFL score you have been looking for.

Hossein was quick to enroll in Michael’s Online TOEFL Course: “The 7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL IBT.”  From a great introduction to a fabulous ending; Hossein from Iran improved his listening and speaking abilities with all of Michael’s English learning lessons and exercises. Advising Hossein to work daily on his pronunciation and listening skills through recommended lessons, Hossein improved his began to build sufficient responses that comprehended with many listening and speaking tasks. And overall, this helped Hossein score 89 on the TOEFL iBT with: listening- 20, speaking- 24, writing- 18, and reading- 27!

Hossein first comments to Michael were as follows:

“Dear Mr. Michael,
I am Hossein; from Iran.  I became familiar with your website recently. I am going to retake toefl in November. My main problems is listening, it is awful. The result of my previous test was 78; listening: 15, speaking: 19, writing: 18, reading: 26. I am disappointed about listening. I cannot improve it and because of listening I cannot gain a good score in speaking. Could you please give me some recommendations?
Thank you so much in advance.
Best wishes,
Hossein”

Hossein was advised to work daily on his pronunciation and listening skills through Michael’s exclusive listening and pronunciation sections.

By learning how to understand the characteristics of natural speech and additional tips like: inferencing, idioms, negative expressions, getting the main idea, and understanding transitions with Michael’s listening lessons, Hossein improved his listening strengths and weaknesses.
Furthermore, with 15 hours of instruction and 40 academic listening practice tests, the listening section truly helped Hossein learn to catch the main idea and important details of campus-related and academic listening passages.

By targeting and improving his pronunciation weaknesses, Hossein developed an extensive practice with vowel and consonants sounds and instruction in stress, intonation, and pausing. Furthermore, with 1000′s of pronunciation drills and numerous practice tests, Hossein’s speaking fluidity developed every day. All in all, because of this, Hossein gain competent pronunciation skills like: syllable division, grammatical word endings, word stress, sentence rhythm, intonation, thought groups, and blending.

In the end, after studying everyday to better his English through Michael’s listening and speaking sections, it seemed Hossein’s monthly subscription was over and within a moment’s notice he had retaken the TOEFL iBT and scored 89 with: listening- 20, speaking- 24, writing- 18, and reading- 27. Hossein achieved his own TOEFL success! Are you like Hossein and can’t seem to find the right system to improve your English weaknesses? Then join Michael’s TOEFL Course like Hossein did and began your access to his great English learning system.