TOEFL Coaching Overview
The TOEFL examination is an English proficiency exam for students planning to study in English-speaking countries. The TOEFL scores become an important part of the application process for candidates looking to study abroad in an English-speaking setting. A lot of times TOEFL requirements could be waived, however, this is entirely at the discretion of the university authorities. The TOEFL full form is the Test of English as a Foreign Language and the conducting body of the TOEFL exam, ETS (Educational Testing Services) is responsible for the TOEFL test, conducting the TOEFL iBT test, and sending each examinee their scorecard.
How to Prepare for TOEFL Exam
Listening
The TOEFL iBT Listening section is designed to measure your ability to understand conversations and lectures in English. It includes listening for: basic comprehension understanding the speaker's attitude and degree of certainty connecting information
Listening questions
You’ll hear lectures and conversations in this section. Both use campus-based language.
3–4 lectures, some with classroom discussion, each 3–5 minutes; 6 questions per lecture
2–3 conversations, each 3 minutes; 5 questions per conversation
Speaking
The TOEFL iBT Speaking section measures your ability to speak English effectively in academic settings. The four questions/tasks resemble real-life situations you might encounter both in and outside of a classroom. Question 1: Independent Speaking Task — requires you to draw entirely on your own ideas, opinions and experiences when you respond. Questions 2–4: Integrated Speaking Tasks — require you to combine your English-language skills — listening and speaking, or listening, reading and speaking — just as you would in or out of a classroom. Prep time: You'll get 15–30 seconds of preparation time before each response, and your response will be 45 or 60 seconds long.
Reading
It includes three or four reading passages, each approximately 700 words long, with 10 questions per passage. You have 54 to 72 minutes to answer all the questions in the section. Reading passages are excerpts from university-level textbooks that would be used in introductions to a topic. The passages cover a variety of subjects. Don't worry if you're not familiar with the topic of a passage. All the information you need to answer the questions will be included in the passage. There is a glossary feature available to define words not commonly used, if you need it.
Writing
The TOEFL iBT test Writing section measures your ability to write in English in an academic setting, and to present your ideas in a clear, well-organized way. There are two writing tasks.
Integrated writing task (20 minutes) — read a short passage and listen to a short lecture, then write in response to what you read and listened to.
Independent writing task (30 minutes) — write an essay based on personal experience or opinion in response to a writing topic.
You'll type your responses on a computer keyboard (or hand write them for the TOEFL iBT Paper Edition).