#i can't believe in my official english exams. that will stay with me forever.

[girlshadowthehedgehog]

i hope the sonic community knows that for every exam or project i've been assigned since 2020, i have done nothing but submit sonic the hedgehog. this hasn't been intentional, i'm just that brain wired, but i now realise that i'm following in the same footsteps of mosaic sonic girl...

[diamarch]

TOEFL Experience. Part II

Hello everybody! I didn't expect that you would start following me, but, honestly, I'm pleased. Thank you! :)

I'm back with my sources for TOEFL preparation. Today I'm going to talk a little bit about the official resources because they may also be helpful.

Online course from ETS on the EDX platform

You can watch videos and practice a bit for free (as I understand it, without feedback), but only for 14 days. After that, all materials close, and you can't see them forever. That was my mistake. I thought that I could re-enroll and this would prolong my access for another 14 days. So I watched videos only about the scariest section for me, Speaking, and put this website aside, as I wanted to concentrate on my speaking for a while. When I returned and tried to re-enroll, this didn't help. So, be aware! It's only 14 days for free. However, basically, I loved this material because they had included sample answers (ideal and average) and explained why they had rated them like this. That's why I became a little calmer about my speaking; at least I could gain the average score :)

2. Practice tests

ETS provides us with one free sample test for the IBT TOEFL and one for the paper-based TOEFL. Also, they provide training questions for Writing for an Academic discussion (a new type of question in TOEFL since July 26, 2023) and offer free AI feedback (but I believe this is temporary). To be honest, I just downloaded these sample tests and didn't use them. The deal was that it was uncomfortable for me to train with PDF files; I couldn't measure time properly and used paper for answers; therefore, it was really far from the real experience. But this is a great start if you want to get to know what the TOEFL looks like.

3. Videos with transcripts about every section on the TOEFL website.

I regret very deeply that I found this too late (about one or two days before my exam). I googled the first Writing question, as there were some inconsistencies on different websites about the content of this question, and reached this page. Accidentally. In fact, it can save you lots of money and time since all the information about the test is presented here in a nutshell and in a really comprehensible way. Moreover, it's from an official provider.

That's all for today :) There are also TOEFLGo! App and TOEFL TV YouTube channel, but I can't say anything about these products. If you had an experience with them, please share it with us in the comments.

Stay tunned. Next stop: unofficial websites.