Hi there a brief intro of myself. Last sem in INTI AUP, majoring in CS.

TOEFL will not be difficult if you're used to speaking English. You don't need to take a course before sitting for TOEFL, but it will definitely help. In my opinion, get yourself familiar with the test format ie. test duration, what you'll be tested for, basically just reading, listening, speaking and writing (in that order). Still, practices are important to score well in TOEFL, especially in the speaking part (at least for me speaking is the most difficult part as I got nervous )

CS = Computer Science

Insights? What I feel about TOEFL is it really tests your confidence rather than your English, although you must have a strong foundation in English ie. your vocabulary must be good (though its standard is way lower than that of SAT). Reading is easy, if you know your English. Listening is OK, just that you have to focus on the lecture/conversation for quite sometime (~5 min). For these 2 sections, one of them will have an extra section (not sure what they call it), that is, you'll have either more articles to read or more conversations to listen. For my case, I have to endure those [c]boring[/c] "interesting" talks for 9 times!!! (the duration of the listening topic gets longer and longer, the most is around 5 minutes) At first I tried to note down every single details I think is somewhat important, but I gradually got tired of it. So, instead of writing everything down, I just sat there and listen the talk as a whole. Guess what, it works!

Speaking...try not to be nervous, and practice some critical thinking as you have little time to prepare for your speech.

Writing. There will be two essays. The first one, you'll read a short article, then listen to a lecture, then write the essay. Normally the article and the lecture will have contradicting points ie. article says a=1, b=2, c=3, but the lecturer says the other way round. So, in your essay, you'll have to relate the points in the article and in the lecturer's speech. The second one will be of a random topic, so this is the time to show your writing skills One note though, it's better to write more. I wrote ~500 words for the second essay and got quite a decent score. Write an organized, coherent essay.

For TOEFL test centers, you can refer to TOEFL HomePage to check whether the center is available on the test date. I took the test in Subang Jaya near INTI College.

The total time is ~ 4 hours, but you can leave if you have finish it earlier. It does have a 10 minute break after listening. In the listening and speaking section you would have some time to prepare before answering/going to next question (not sure for listening though )

It's not a test, just an English exercise. Think like that and you'll be fine

Hey anyone going U-Wisconsin Madison?

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Added on April 27, 2011, 1:16 am
what do you want to know?

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Just any forumer(s) heading there. I guess none

I don't need to know, just want to know, and there's already a huge kampung there

In any case, just to meet some new friends

Nelson, nice to see you here

Busy packing?

haha yours is waaayyyyy sooner than mine. I'll fly on the 17th

Have a safe flight and enjoy your life

This post has been edited by tonnect91: Aug 6 2011, 03:08 PM

Happy Thanksgiving !!!

Every midterm is like final to me