<p>Ehy guys! I'm an international, I think that my english is not so good, so I have to improve it. This summer I will be in London, UK for a month and I would like to start my preparation for TOEFL. During September I will start an individual or semi-individual course about TOEFL exam and maybe I will take it during Summer time or before.! This summer which book should I buy to start the preparation by myself ?</p>
<p>There are no good TOEFL prep books. Look at a sample test, figure out what your weaknesses are and then work on those. If you are good with grammar, the single best test preparation is continued exposure to the English language: read books (or websites!) in English, watch movies in English, find opportunities to speak and write English, etc.</p>
<p>I find TOEFL quite a joke - well anyhow that is not my point. But I want to say that based on my experience, the test really DOES NOT reflect your English skills. Let my following story enlighten this:</p>
<p>I’m a vice president of my HS’s alumni organization. Every December we make a ‘wine tasting night’. Im sure that these kind of nights would stay classy and sober in some other countries but in my home country, in northern europe, these kind of event turn out to be, to be frank, bacchanals. SO everyone gets so drunk on Friday, I get home basically 3 AM and my TOEFL test is on Saturday, at 9 AM (if I remember right). That night I slept only 4 hours and went to test feeling so bad and sick (if you can even imagine). I quite managed to do the reading and stuff but when it came to speaking part - I totally started to panic. ‘The best’ part of the speaking section was that in the end of one recording I panicked so much that I slipped out the F-word (which got recorded…).</p>
<p>After the exam I really thought that OMG I’m gonna fail this and I reserved a new test time. I took the test second time (after careful preparing, sleeping well night before, etc… (AND I made sure not to slip any panicked profanity)).</p>
<p>In the end when I got the results: Test time no 1: score: 106 ; Test time no 2: score: 107.</p>
<p>SO I dont know what happened but I found those scores totally random… I think I did so much better for the second time but well… Do not be panicked because of TOEFL! If you can read, write and speak quite good English, you will do fine! Im sure about it! But of course, practicing the language benefits you always but do not think that without excessive training you’re not gonna make a good score on TOEFL.</p>
<p>The TOELF is a test of common sense, just buy a good grammar book, you can find a decent one at any book store, watch a lot of american movies - the TOELF is an “american test” -, watch CNN and Fox news in english, grab a good book, everything you read and watch should be in english, thats what I did and i scored 630; thats above of any college requirement ;)</p>
<p>If I were you I’ll take the paper based TOELF, its the easiest one.</p>
<p>I hope this helps</p>
<p>Ok, thanks. I hope that living in london for a month will be helpful. If I were you I’ll take the paper based TOELF, its the easiest one.</p>
<p>im sorry, I meant if I were you I would take the paper based one</p>
<p>I am preparing for TOEFL too and particularly for iBT(internet based) because my country doesn’t have the paper one.It’s a bit difficult and you have to read a lot.It is based on vocabulary mainly and grammar .It has 4 parts Reading,Listening,Speaking and Writing.</p>
<p>However I don’t know which one of TOEFL will you chooce, the paper based or the other one???</p>
<p>But whatever you take I wish you good luck!!!:)</p>
<p>As for London, I believe that, it will be a great experience and a great chance to practice your English!</p>