1, preparation: plan the examination time in advance and practice anti-interference answering questions.
Once students have the idea of studying in the United States, they should immediately start studying and prepare for TOEFL. It is best to study TOEFL in senior one, especially in the winter vacation of senior one, and take the TOEFL test for the first time before the end of senior one.
For these senior one candidates, because the new TOEFL is a computer test, it is very important to plan the test time and learn to do the questions under the pressure of time limit. For example, doing a reading must be completed within 20 minutes, doing an oral topic must be completed within 45 seconds, and writing is the same, and it must be completed within 30 minutes. When practicing doing simulation questions, we should also set a final "deadline" for ourselves, and experience the time allocation, the strategy of encountering special circumstances, the order of doing questions, etc. in the simulation exam to cultivate the psychological feeling of the exam.
In the final preparation sprint stage, candidates will also practice answering oral questions in a disturbing environment. Because the candidates in the same examination room answer questions at different speeds, sometimes when many people are still watching, some people begin to listen. Such interference is inevitable. Start practicing answering questions in a noisy environment now. Be sure to make the answer clear, practice the ability to express your views and attitudes on a question for one minute, and exercise the ability to organize language logic in a short time. Candidates must look at the timer on the screen when answering questions. If time is running out, it will end immediately.
2. Registration: TOEFL test places are tight and need to be processed in advance.
At present, the TOEFL test position in China is very tight. If you want to take the TOEFL, you should not only prepare for the exam in advance, but also deal with the registration in advance. Remind everyone that the TOEFL test needs to be registered at least 1 month in advance before it is possible to get a suitable test center. When registering TOEFL test officials online, you must first register an ID on NEEA. It should be noted that you can't choose your own user name, and the website will randomly assign you an ID. Be sure to record it and keep it. It will be used frequently in the future.
3. Pro-exam: keep a good physical and mental state and check the surrounding environment of the examination room.
At this stage before the exam, it is recommended that you keep exercising every day and keep a good physical and mental state. You can go to the playground for a quick walk or jogging. If you exercise at night, you can also recall the knowledge points and wrong questions reviewed today during brisk walking or jogging, which is very effective. Remember not to change your living habits suddenly before the exam, and don't take supplements suddenly.
A few days before the TOEFL test, I suggest you get familiar with the surrounding environment of the examination room and inquire about the traffic route of the examination room. For example, on the day of the exam, how long will it take to get to the examination room, whether there will be noise around the examination room, and so on. For students taking exams in different places, it is recommended to arrive in their city 1-2 days in advance.
4. Registration: Bring all test-related items and try to enter the examination room in advance.
On the day of the exam, you must bring the admission ticket and the original second-generation ID card into the examination room. For some forgetful students, be sure to check them before going out and bring all the things you need for the exam. In addition, I would like to remind everyone that starting from 20 13 and 1 June, the registration time for arriving at the test center on the day of the exam is advanced to 8: 30 am, and admission is not allowed after 8: 30 am. Please be sure to control the time.
TOEFL test sites need to pay attention to:
1. Reading: The reading section begins. First, the first item appears on the right side of the screen, and the 20-minute countdown begins. Pull the scroll and press the Next key in the upper right corner of the screen before the first question appears. In the current exam questions, articles and questions each account for half of the screen. The article is on the right and the exam questions are on the left. There is only one reference question for all the reading questions today. A new rhetorical question appears, which is to ask you the role of a paragraph in the article. At the beginning of the exam, the buddy behind me suddenly patted me on the shoulder and said that my chair had been hitting his desk. His big hand startled me, and it took me seven seconds (equivalent to Liu Xiang running the 59.78m hurdles). Every seat in the education building is really small, so I suggest you lose weight and adjust your sitting posture on the spot before starting the exam. Read and test three articles. The first one is 20 minutes. You can't go back when the time is up. The second and third articles add up to 40 minutes. You can press the "Review" key to return to any topic in the middle. The second article took me 20 minutes and 30 seconds, and the third article took 19 minutes and 30 seconds. I didn't take the time to check these three articles. I prefer to do one thing at a time and take the time to check and improve the accuracy of each question. I didn't take the extra reading test today. I took an extra listening test.
2. Listening: Because of more exams, I listened to 3 dialogues and 6 speeches in the listening part. It was disgusting to hear it later, but the later it was, the simpler it felt. The first conversation and the second speech in the first part are often difficult to hear clearly, probably because I wanted to hit you from the beginning. Pay attention to taking notes. If there is a conflict between taking notes and mastering ideas, you would rather not take notes and concentrate on understanding. Of course, this involves a technical problem of taking notes quickly. The black friends who appeared before the beginning of the listening part and the professors who appeared in the speech part are the same as those who appeared in the ETS official TOEFL online model test. It is very intimate to see it, and the people who appear on the screen selected by ETS are often ordinary and elegant. If you have the conditions, I suggest you buy simulation questions. Or through various channels, gain relevant model test experience. I didn't review before this TOEFL, so I did a set of simulation questions, and I felt very impressed when I met the real questions at the test center. Some students may have internal emergencies before the break: first, pay attention to the second item I said above; Second, if this happens, we must hold back at the critical moment. It is suggested that some relevant training should be carried out during self-study in the school library. Remember not to be possessed! After listening to the part, the screen shows that the countdown will start in 5 seconds 10 minutes-which means you can leave your seat immediately and do what you like-for example, drinking red bull; Eat chocolate; Go to the bathroom. Note: the rest time is only 10 minutes-not much for one second; Not for a few seconds. So you'd better watch your watch. In addition, there is a countdown of 10 second in the upper right corner of the screen. Some students are too stupid to see. Staring at the screen for a long time, it is still a prompt of "rest after 5 seconds". When they notice this, there may only be a 9-minute break in the countdown display-people can be stupid, but they are not stupid.
3. Oral English: Start the oral English test after you come back. Personally, I think speaking test is the most needed skill in CET-4-especially the grasp of time. Because there is not enough relevant training before, it turns out that the preparation time of 15 seconds or 30 seconds is always much shorter than expected. In addition, the limited answer time (45 seconds or 60 seconds) always goes much faster than expected. So I ended a few questions in a hurry and was very passive. Everyone should learn a lesson and find opportunities to train with a stopwatch in peacetime.
4. Writing: The first question of the composition question must be to read a paragraph and then listen to a speech. The views of writing and speech are often opposite. Pay special attention to taking notes when you speak. You don't need to take notes on the text, just read it and make an appropriate summary. Although words will disappear when spoken, they will reappear when writing an article. The second question of the composition requires more than 300 words, and reading, conception and writing add up to 30 minutes. It took me three or four minutes to read the topic and conceive it. It is very important to conceive and design the framework of the article. Spending an extra minute here may mean helping you to be efficient in the later writing process.
5. Appearance: If candidates know the examination room, it is recommended to stay in a hotel or hotel near the examination room one or two days in advance. It is very convenient to go to the examination room in this way, and it can also cultivate the fighting mood (it is too comfortable at home or school). You can't bring a pen into the examination room. Only pencils are provided at the examination site. There is an unlimited supply of test papers, and I used six sheets of paper for the whole exam. The current paper is yellow. It is recommended to be familiar with taking notes on yellow paper with a pencil before the exam. At the same time, it is suggested to put a pack of wet paper towels in your pocket, which can not only remove dust during the exam (for friends who are neat), but also wipe their faces and refresh themselves at any time.
Generally speaking, the new TOEFL test is really difficult, but it is definitely not insurmountable. This is a long journey.