TIPS to Pass TOEFL iBT Exam

Important Tips that Help You to Pass TOEFL iBT Exam

Here are eight tips to help you prepare for the TOEFL iBT test. These tips, tricks and strategies will help improve your overall TOEFL score.

1. Supersize your Vocabulary by writing the new vocabulary in a Notebook

2 Months ahead before start preparing to take TOEFL exam, start writing all of the new vocabulary you encounter in a notebook.

As you read to study for the TOEFL, keep a notebook and a dictionary by your side. Every time you discover a new word, write it in your notebook to study later.

Quickly test your vocabulary by checking the main 250 words that are usually comes in TOEFL exams, you have to know them & to be more familiar of using them before taking the real exam

This will help you to develop a strong vocabulary that should be a great help to you when you take TOEFL’s reading, writing & conversation parts of the test.

2. Practice Previous Exams

As TOEFL exam is standard test & always has the same layout & formats, practicing previous & past tests will provide you an indication about your current level in TOEFL and will you will be more comfortable when you take the real test.  

 3. Train yourself to finish reading, writing & listening parts within the time limit

Each part in reading, writing & listening shall be finished in a limited time (see the table above), this is not a difficult mission, by practicing to finish these parts within the limit you have, it will be easy once you have the exam, remember that you don't need to read all the articles at reading part (see the tip number 5).
  
Practicing to stay within the stated limit could be done by using a timer, so that you can make sure that you are finishing each part within the time limit.  

4. Prepare a Typical Personal Dialog about Yourself

In speaking part of TOEFL exam, you will be subjected to talk about your self during the conversation, practice & memorize the main data about you, such as the graduation Place & the graduation year from your collage, your work experience and location, your personal life, your parents house .. etc. You will be asked usually to describe something personal or to summarize your character & life and to define your self.

5. Learn to Skim

In TOEFL Exam - Reading Branch; It is a big mistake to read the whole article then to move forward to answer the questions, Instead, the skimming technique shall be used in this branch of the exam, this technique starts in  reading a paragraph  quickly, and understanding a text by extracting the important headlines within short time. This is a crucial skill for the TOEFL reading Branch, Practice doing this technique when you are preparing for the TOEFL Exam.

6. Summarize your Ideas in Speaking Part

In Speaking Part, you will be provided with a Pen & Paper to record your ideas when the examiner asked you the major topic in this branch, you are given 1 minute to record your thoughts, just record the key words that you have to talk about, for example if the examiner asked you to speak about your favorite sport, start recording the main ideas and thoughts in just 1 word for each, you can record in this example words like football, AC Milan, Lionel Messi, famous sport, stadiums .. etc, these words can provide you when you start talking with the main ideas you have to talk about and it will not leave you to be silent for a much time. 

7. Highlight the Important Points

Highlighting important information during Reading & Writing like vocabulary, dates, numbers and places may help you feel comfortable and ordering your ideas & thoughts.  

8. Pay Attention During Listening Part

Listening part is the most part that the TOEFL students are complain about, because the listening tape is not repeated during the exam, read the question quickly to have an idea about the listening topic that you are going to listen, this will make it easier for you to pick up the question and to know where you have to emphasis more during the conversation you are listening to. 

Top 10 Books for IELTS - PDF copy Download

The best & top 10 books to study IELTS in both Modules (Academic & General) are listed below, studying these books or some of them is enough to pass and to get your desired score in IELTS;

1. IELTS Band Vocabulary Secrets 

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 2. Idioms Organizer

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3. Reading for IELTS.. the full series is by Jane Short, but for the reading section this book is recommended the most. 

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4. Top tips for IELTS

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5. Collins series .. which is considered one of the most reliable IELTS Materials to pass the exam with high score

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6. Grammar Vocabulary for Advances 

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7. IELTS for Academic Purposes 

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8. Achieve IELTS 

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9. IELTS : How to write 

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10. Cambridge Practice Test for IELTS series 

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Tricky & Situational PMP Exam Questions - How to solve them

In PMP Exams, the Situational & Tricky questions constitute a huge part of the questions that could let you fail if you don't have any idea about how to deal with them. A clear strategy you have to follow when you are practicing real exams and when you take the PMP exam itself, below are some guidelines and strategies to follow at the exam:

1. Follow the rule of removing/Eliminating the wrong choices for the questions that you don't know their answer.

Usually, and out of 4 choices, there is at least 1 choice you can easily exclude or remove, and this choice usually is not complying with code of ethics & professional behavior, for example when you find one choice describe a penalty that was done directly by the PM to an employee or the PM has decided to remove a team member away from the project without investigation, such choices shall be considered as a wrong answer.

2. Read the answers first for the long questions.

You will encounter long questions in PMP exam, some of them with more than 9 rows, in these cases start reading the choices first then turn to the question itself, reading the choices in this case will give you an indication on what you have to emphasis and to give more attention, in such questions many extra information are given which you don't  need and you will not use them for solving the question, these distracted data can be easily discovered in lengthy questions when you start reading the choices.

3.  Answer all questions you see even if you don't know the right answer.

In PMP exam, you can mark the questions that you are not sure if you answered them correctly in order to check them later, Anyway DON'T LEAVE ANY QUESTION WITHOUT ANSWER, in case you are not sure about question(s), just mark them and choose the most suitable choice for you, many PMP students could not check their answers later as the time of the exam is limited and there is a big possibility that you will consume all of the time when you reach to question #200 !!

4. Memorize the ITTO for the 49 processes.

In PMBOK - Version 6, the processes increased up to 49 process, around 12 direct questions in PMP exam are about Inputs, Tools & Techniques and the outputs of these 49 processes, you have to be sure that you are memorizing them before starting the exam.

See Also: The Main Formulas you have to memorize for PMP Exam - Version 6
http://academyoflions.blogspot.com/2018/07/main-formulas-you-have-to-memorize-to.html

5. Be careful about the first 4-5 questions in the exam.

Many PMP students who failed PMP exam were complaining about the beginning of the exam's questions as they have faced questions they don't even hear about, don't panic! there are 25 questions in PMP exam will be removed before calculating your final test result, some exams start in a difficult & unclear questions to check the students against the hard times and if they can keep calm & overcome these impediments.

6. Read the end of the questions CAREFULLY.

At the end of most questions you will see words like the Best, Except, Most Likely, Least likely, Not .. etc , don't go fast to the answers until being sure that you have read the last one or two words in the question.

7. Use the 15 minutes Tutorial.

You will be given a 15 minutes before starting the exam to clarify the way the exam will be performed, these 15 minutes are in fact long time for exam clarification, you can also check some videos on youtube to know more about this tutorial, at maximum you will need 5 minutes out of 15, the remaining 10 minutes you can use to write the equations, ITTO's and any other thing you have a difficulty in memorizing, you will be provided with a pencil and papers at the beginning of the exam, use them to write down the aforementioned points. 

8. Practice real exams before sitting for your one.

You can use the link below to test your self, it contain a real PMP exam with 200 questions, you will find the answers at the end of the exam.

http://academyoflions.blogspot.com/2016/11/free-pmp-online-training-course.html

9. Memorize the Planning processes in ORDER.

Many questions you will see in PMP exam asking about what happened next? or what is the next process that the PM shall perform? in planning, the processes are coming in order (chronologically), for example: the process that shall come after qualitative risk Analysis is the quantitative risk Analysis, and so on for all planning processes.

10. Read all answers before you choose the correct one.

Usually, PMP exam's questions have 2 right answers and you have to choose the most correct one, don't choose the answer just because you have read it, take a look to all choices before you choose your one, this trick led many students fail the exam at first trail.