How to study and practice for the TOEFL exam – part 2

To complete the TOEFL exam you should practice two this in particular: completeness and context. What do I mean by completeness and context? It’s really simple; while reading a text you should get everything as a whole in opposite of focusing details. Of course details have meaning through the TOEFL examination; many questions might come from small details. But you will quickly lose the completeness of the text, of everything is holding together. Thus focusing on few details might harm more than it helps. By focusing one detail you lose other details or the main objective of the text. So please prepare to focus on the whole text. You can do this by reading texts online etc, and it’s really not so difficult. Now, why is context important? To answer any grammar related questions you have to know the context of using the grammar. It doesn’t help much to memorize a lot of grammar if you can’t practice. There is less and less of pure grammar exercises in the exam, thus using grammar in context will be what finally determines your score on the TOEFL exam.

Another important focus you should keep in mind while practicing for the TOEFL exam is to build up your academically vocabulary. To have a good academically vocabulary will pay itself to help you get the completeness; the whole text. It will make the listening and reading parts far easier for you as a student. The best way to build an academically vocabulary for the TOEFL exam is of course to read academically written texts. Also practicing to write new sentences with the newly learned words will quickly enhance your vocabulary.

Another important clue for practicing for the TOEFL exam is to make notes, make notes while reading, makes notes while writing. Practice writing keywords that might help you remember parts of the text or what you just listened. You might not have the time to re-read the text; and you might not have a chance to listen to the tape over again. Hence; keywords helps a lot. You don’t have time to write everything down, and if you tried you would quickly lose a couple of sentences as its hard focus both writing and reading at the same time. Of course you can practice this as a new ability; but I don’t doubt you will have time to master writing everything while reading or listening perfectly before your exam come. I have heard of experiments of people practicing to master this ability; but its few who actually can.

A final tips before having the actual TOEFL exam; focus your mind on the test; keep focus on the TOEFL exam at hand. Do not let your mind go away or taking it to easy.

I hope this was some beneficial advices on how to practice for the TOEFL exam.