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Release Date: 2010-05-11
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| Features• ISBN13: 9780375429743
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Ok, apart from the journal-like paper.The book is ok and is what I was looking for.
The only thing that caught my attention was the journal-like paper. I wasn't expecting it.
It's filled up with drills/exercises and I really believe it will help me to achieve a better Toefl score. Since my mother tonge is Brazilian Portuguese, I had to buy a book in order to enhance my skills. I believe this book is right for me.
Tks!
that's what I was trying to findA very good book for TOEFL preparation. Given excellent directions how to pass the exam and precise tips. Only 1 minus - it IS iBT, you must be sure what kind of test you're going to take.
good helpThe book was awesome, it helped in everyway. It shows exactly how to answer the actual ibt internet based test. It was sent in great condition and the price was ok.
Not usefulDespite all positive reviews I found this book not very helpful. I made through 1/3 of it before giving up and switching to another book. The main reason for this - I didn't feel any kind of progress. The explanations didn't really help me to understand how close was or wasn't I to the correct answer. It was very frustrating experience.
It was not what I expectedActually, I bought the book because of its highest rating at Amazon. It seems that there is no good book on TOEFL strategy at all. This one mostly describes the test, it gives some hints, but the proposed strategy doesn't appeal to me. Even having learned it, you still have to guess answers if you do not know a correct one. What they call a strategy can not be compared on real strategy proposed in textbooks for the IELTS. In "Cracking" they have exercises, what is good, but for speaking they propose as an exercise to WRITE your answers, which is stupid because when you speak and write you use different skills (and different areas of the brain, I guess). Very few exercises on speaking. They have one practice test. However, the CD is just an audio CD with audio tracks. So you have to take a paper-based test for training. And you have to manage your time and to record your speaking answers (and you have to do it while speaking). This ain't fittin. Besides, there are mistakes, typos and wrongly formulated questions in the book. Here is a piece of their "Victorian" English: "By mastering the skill of active reading, you'll be able to not only find the most important information in a passage but also effectively answer the questions that follow". Show the phrase to a good English teacher and you'll understand that if you need a score more then 90, you should avoid the book.
The book volume could be two times smaller since there are a lot of blank pages and blank space on pages.
Product Description
If it’s on the TOEFL iBT, it’s in this book. Cracking the TOEFL iBT with CD includes:
• A full-length simulated TOEFL iBT with accompanying audio sections on an MP3 CD
• Audio exercises on the CD to hone your listening skills
• Strategies and practice drills for all core concepts
• Detailed answers and explanations for the practice test and all practice drills
• Tips on organizing and focusing your essay-writing skills
• Practical information on the what, when, where, and how of taking the TOEFL iBT
• Additional grammar review to brush up on your basics
• Planning and organization advice to get you all the way to test day!
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