<p>Will anyone here be taking TOEFL this month? I will. I should have registered for a later date. X__X</p>
<p>@band
I and prasadian will be giving the TOEFL on Aug21.I am having the same problem dude.No preparation :(.</p>
<p>@rockeroncc : TOEFL is not that difficult and very little preparation will do it, if you already have a pretty fair english. Get a CD or download the software from internet (I used Kaplan’s one but any other will be fine). Focus more on the speaking section because of the time-constrains. A week of practise will be enough. There will be around 5-7 sets of tests in the program and if you manage to do them, then you are going to do well.</p>
<p>Yeah, TOEFL does not require a big time. All u need to do is familiarize yourself with the question types. Ive heard people spending around 4 hrs and yet scoring the perfect score.</p>
<p>On a totally different note. The Forbes list of America’s best colleges has come out. The ranking is based on the student’s point of view. [America’s</a> Best Colleges - Forbes.com](<a href=“Forbes List Directory”>Forbes List Directory)</p>
<p>Note : The list and rankings are not my view, neither am I claiming that any/all colleges in the list are good/bad. I seriously donot want to get into any kind of discussion on why one college is ranked upper/lower over another.</p>
<p>Thanks guys for the Toefl thing.</p>
<p>I haven’t studied for TOEFL AT ALL. Just a few practice tests and get ~58 in the Listening and Reading sections.</p>
<p>Guys, just one suggestion for TOEFL.
TOEFL is too easy to do well, but too boring to mess it up.</p>
<p>Haha… I think I just made a quote. ;)</p>
<p>That’s right BidurNeeti…TOEFL might have been the most boring test I ever took. I mean, it’s 4 hours of english, and just a single 10 minute break. SAT was way more interesting!</p>
<p>hey guys sorry for a little break… really fawked with my results, so was away.
I was going through post #847
@BOCCA
hey silent observer myan, if u aint participating in the discussions and just observe it then you don’t have any right to SHOUT at one of our very keen user PRASADIAN. If you wanna suggest suggest it the nice way like there are words called Please, Would you mind… blah blah. The way you appeared in your first post is just more than bragging OK?
I kno you felt bad reading this but I must do this.
And yes sorry guys I am a bit away from college discussion in this post coz of this.
@bocca sry again but please improve your style of expressing things.</p>
<p>@skox
ok ok % damn from my side too… now just trying to stand out in some other field… LOL
By the way how is Starkville>???
Post some pics in FB myan.
TC</p>
<p>^^^ college is good. All aside. Fall is soon to start, then colleges will gear up for the new session…so start right away . do supplements guys, not only PE.</p>
<p>What does do supplement really mean I am confused ?</p>
<p>@bidurneet : apart from a personal essay (thats same for each college you apply via commonapp), there another essay (usually one but number can increase) that is different for each colleges you apply to. For eg the supplement for Colgate college last year was :</p>
<p>" We honor the many different forms of diversity in our community. Your perspective is valuable because it comes from your life experiences, family background, and culture. Please tell us about yourself and what you believe is the best way to share your perspective. Also, what do you hope to learn from the experiences of others? "</p>
<p>while the supplement of Brandeis was titled </p>
<p>“Please include a short response explaining why you want to attend Brandeis. Please limit your response to 250 words or less”</p>
<p>Usually the supplement essays are used to judge you interest and knowledge about that particular university and any other questions that the college might have.</p>
<p>Until last year you could prepare alternate versions of Commonapp meaning you could use different personall essay for each college. I heard somewhere its discontinued this year but I am not sure though.</p>
<p>^ NO u can still create the alternate versions of you Commonapp. </p>
<p>Btw guys do u have any idea about the 2010 US News Ranking? Forbes ranking is out and it is quiet weird, so looking forward to the US News! Maybe it will be out by the end of this month???Any idea???</p>
<p>guys, have the supplements been made out by every colleges so far???I haven’t seen those of the few colleges…</p>
<p>@Morrison
aug 18 is wat they have quoted for the new rankings
@hendrix7
many colz r yet to publish their supps topic
but keeping that in mind, many colz r also putting end to their supps requuirement like trinity colz</p>
<p>US News Ranking will be out on Aug 17 as it is written on the website.Looking forward to that…
^^And yes we can still create 10(correct me if i am wrong) alternative versions of common app.I am not sure about the number but we can!!!</p>
<p>thanks guys for that info!!!</p>
<p>@rock
yeah man!!! 10s the number!!!</p>