You can study for the TOEFL for months on end and still flop on test day if you you’re not studying the right way. Below, I’ve got a few tips that will make your studies much more fruitful, so listen up! Figure out your learning style. There are a lot of ways to categorize different […]

The TOEFL Reading Section
Generally speaking, every question on the TOEFL falls into one of two broad categories: comprehension or critical thinking. Whereas the first category will simply ask you to recall information from the text or lecture, the second will ask you to interpret, extrapolate from, or reorganize the given information to answer questions that may not be […]

How to Revise TOEFL Writing
By David Recine on September 2, 2010 , UPDATED ON December 10, 2020, in TOEFL Writing Task 1 (Integrated)
Revisions to TOEFL Writing responses should be made based on priorities. You want to revise the most important aspects of the writing first, and then move on to smaller “proofreading” errors (punctuation, spelling, grammar, etc…) if you have time. What are the highest priorities (and lowest) when you revise TOEFL Writing? ETS’s rubrics for TOEFL […]