more like " its an insult to someone's intelligence" lol

The whole test is about 4 hours long! The time allocated is 9:00am-1:30pm for me, but I left at about 12:45pm. There is a 10-minute break somewhere in the middle of the test, you can go take a piss or quickly go buy water or something before returning.

Thanks! Well.. judging from your posts here, your English should be just as good as mine hahah.. so no worries!

Are you talking about AAU? If so, yes, they do ship out a THICK catalog to you. It's very informative and nice to read. I ended up reading the book cover-to-cover although I really needed to read only the Game Design section LOL!

If you're talking about TOEFL.. no, they don't ship out anything AFAIK.. I didn't receive anything at all.

Ah, thanks for sharing your experience, I guess I shouldn't worry too much about the test huh?

Yeah, it's really thick, unlike the brochures I got from TOA. I'm still trying to find a college that suits to my needs in animation, so the curriculum really matters to me most

You're welcome! When you sign up for TOEFL, you can choose several packages. You can choose to include the TOEFL Official Guide + Practice Tests eBook or you can have them shipped to your home (for a fee).. I bought the eBook, didn't read it though (only realized I have TOEFL the day before the test) so I just did a few sections of the practise test. I suggest you take this package and spend some time familiarizing yourself with the test format.

Yeah.. it's a book, not even a brochure LOL! The curricula is broken down in the catalog. Spend some time reading it!

Can you actually get those packages without signing up for TOEFL? Just so I'm kind of curious and I wanna try out the format.

And, all these times, I was baffled by why TOEFL and not IELTS? Aren't they almost the same, with equal purposes to measure your grasp of english?

Sorry for the late reply, Zach (may I call you that?). Was busy in the past couple of days.

Well, I'm sure you can (tell me what you COULDN'T get over the internet hahah..). But the way the TOEFL eBook is given to you is pretty weird and pirate-proof. It's sent in the form of an .exe file, which is a downloader. You start the program and authenticate it. Then, it'll start contacting the TOEFL servers to download the eBook. The eBook isn't in a .pdf format, it's started by a program. But I'm pretty sure somebody's uploaded .pdf version already, you can Google for it.

To be honest, I have no idea. But it seems most of them want TOEFL, so what the heck. My friend told me that he has to take IELTS as he's going to Australia after completing his AUSMAT here in KBU International College. I'm not entirely sure about this, but I'll just assume that TOEFL is generally for those going to the States.

It's quite simple really, TOEFL was designed for the purpose of University admission for those who are thinking or going to the United States while IELTS was designed for places like the UK and Aussie and are also administered by groups from those places.

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Added on March 8, 2011, 9:48 pmWeird that you friend has to take IELTS or rather he just took in case?
Since if he did something like ESL during your 12 then one would not need IELTS and a lot of Unis in Aussie accept GCE-O 1119 in the place of IELTS or he didn't meet entry requirements using both or rather a lot of people just take it since everybody else also take =D

This post has been edited by Hikari0307: Mar 8 2011, 09:48 PM

Actually, I have no idea! He did not clarify his situation to me, but as determined from his text messages it sounds more like it's a requirement for the Australia-bound AUSMAT students. I didn't ask further.

What about you? I've seen you around the forums (since back in the SPM 2010 thread). What're you planning to do and where are you going to?

ahaha I don't quite remember what I posted there but I took SPM a few years back =D
I'm currently a business student at the University of Queensland in Australia

Yup, Zach it is.
Nah, it's okay. I'm still in a midst of finding the right college, with too many choices and some tuition fees are ridiculously exorbitant! I guess that's the price for acquiring a high quality education...

I think someone just told me about an ebook version of it, and yah, he even offer to send it to me But like what you said, using the pdf. file wouldn't breach something(privacy), right? BTW, if it's an exe., do you still get to execute it even if you had that file for years after?
Thanks for the reply btw


Thanks for the info It does seem like they'd wanna separate the differences of American Eng & British Eng; that's what the two obviously shows...I can tell it

EducationUSA Connects Session is back! Get first hand responses from representatives of various universities on applications, admission essays, early action and deadlines and more. To check our the sessions available, head on to http://www.educationusa.info/edusa_connects/

The universities participating are (all time have been converted to Malaysian zone):

University of Kentucky, March 10, 2011 - 12:00 am to 1:00 am
University of Kentucky, March 12, 2011 - 12:00 am to 1:00 am
Cottey College, March 22, 2011 - 12:00 am to 1:00 am
College Board, March 24, 2011 - 12:00 am to 1:00 am
The George Washington University, March 25, 2011 - 12:00 am to 1:00 pm
The George Washington University, March 39, 2011 - 10:00 pm to 11:oo pm

True that. Good things don't come cheap. Take your time, you still have plenty of time to choose, decide and plan. Don't rush it.

I don't think so it will breach anything hahah. Many eBooks are distributed freely over the internet. Yes, I do. The .exe is mine to keep forever.

No problem.

Do you mind if you share the e-book? Or would it be too much Sorry for asking.
And I was wondering, have you tried borrowing study loans? What are the requirements and criteria?

I know this might sound stupid and maybe I've could done it myself, but I just wanna get inputs and experiences from you guys, so thanks for reading

I'll upload it later, my Internet is really slow at the moment (Could an undersea cable possibly be affected by today's Japan earthquake? It happened when there was the Taiwan earthquake). To make matters worse, I'm downloading some torrents heheh. Downloading movies to watch with gf.

Anyway, I found some links on Google to get the eBook for free - I can't share it here though, it's against forum rules to share pirated stuff.

It's okay, you can ask anything haha, I'm more than glad to share my experience as well as help others.

Thanks for replying, it's enough than ever

Have you considered borrowing loans? May I ask what are your source of study funds right now ?

You're welcome. The other 'Studying in the US' threads were pretty much dead last year - I couldn't find many people who were the least helpful at all. I intend to keep this thread alive so that more people can come in and access as well as pool information.

I did apply for financial aid, but they'll get back to the students later for this. The fundings for my education are from my parents. We had to sell off one of our old houses.

I see, I really hope more people who studied or currently studying in US would be willing to share some insights here with us

Wow, did the funds fully enough to satisfy of your tuition fees?

This post has been edited by LZ Zach: Mar 12 2011, 11:11 PM

om nom nom nom.

I recommend all of you to apply for fall intake instead of spring intake due to simple reasons: easier to adapt, and fall intake is usually the bigger intake, thus higher chances of getting in.

And always always try to apply before priority deadline.

I wish all the transfer/freshman students the best in their applications

I know there's more people around LYN that are in the US! No idea why they're too shy to come in here and say hi.

Er.. from the house sale alone.. no. But that's why we have savings!

I second that. Have YOU applied?

Yeap , got accepted already.

Waiting to fly soon