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Our mission is to improve your speaking & writing scores at TOEFL. We help you get your target TOEFL scores, even if you already took the exam and were unhappy with your results.
English Success Academy
3y ago
In this video, we look at 4 ways you might accidentally sabotage your progress with TOEFL iBT (or other students’ progress) AND 5 ways you can safely study for TOEFL Speaking and Writing with friends, colleagues, or family members.
The post How to Study TOEFL with Friends… without Sabotage appeared first on English Success Academy ..read more
English Success Academy
3y ago
In the stressful moments while you’re taking a TOEFL iBT test, it’s normal not to notice all the mistakes that you make while you speak and write. The good news is you can become conscious of your mistakes and stop making them… if you follow effective study protocols.
In my opinion, all TOEFL teachers and schools should give homework, check your homework, and give you detailed feedback. But they don’t.
It’s crazy that I have to say this but…
In my TOEFL classes, you get homework. It’s worth saying because I found out (from my students who studied with other tutors or schools) that there are ..read more
English Success Academy
3y ago
So many of the students in our TOEFL iBT online classes are pharmacists, nurses and physical therapists. The situation with coronavirus (COVID-19) is so incredibly stressful, and many of our students are feeling guilty or unproductive. Here is Jaime’s advice. If you click “cc” on the video, you can see the “closed captions” (subtitles) of what she’s saying.
If you’re ready to study TOEFL now, find out more about our online classes (which start in June/July) and schedule your free consultation to discuss your problems with TOEFL.
In June, 2 classes are starting:
1) The Friendly Introductio ..read more
English Success Academy
3y ago
I just saw an article that gives us some information about how you can get a higher TOEFL iBT Writing score, and make your emails for work look more professional.
The article was published by the online news source, The Verge.
Basically, Microsoft updated the way its program, Microsoft Word notices a particular type of error. For decades, people have argued about how many spaces should be after a period, before the capital letter on a first word.
Should it be one space like the top example… or two spaces like the bottom example?
This is an example. Here’s the next sentence.
This is an exampl ..read more
English Success Academy
3y ago
This blog post continues from a larger series:
Part 1 – The “At-Home” TOEFL iBT for COVID-19 is here!
Part 2 – Rescheduling a Standard TOEFL as At-Home
Part 3 – Getting Set Up for your “At-Home” Test
Part 4 – So NABP Won’t Accept “At-Home” TOEFL
In this post, I’m sharing some tips about how to avoid tech problems with your computer on the day of your test.
My first student just reported back to me on the at-home TOEFL test experience. All in all, she really loved how much more comfortable and focused it was to take the test at home.
She shared a technology issue that took ProctorU (the pro ..read more
English Success Academy
3y ago
The majority of students who study in lessons with me are pharmacists. Today (March 23, 2020), I heard from a few different pharmacists that NABP announced the following:
NABP does not accept the “at-home” version of TOEFL iBT.
Ok. So… What do you do? More importantly, how do you get the best results during the COVID-19 crisis?
This is the recommendation that I’m making to all of my pharmacist students:
Step 1: Keep studying until you’re at the level to get your scores.
Depending on what your TOEFL iBT scores are right now, there are a lot of things that are valuable for you to practice.
I ..read more
English Success Academy
3y ago
This blog post continues from a larger series:
Part 1 – The “At-Home” TOEFL iBT for COVID-19 is here!
Part 2 – Rescheduling a Standard TOEFL as At-Home
In this post, I’m clarifying the particular environment that you must have.
As of Sunday, March 22 at 4:45 PM California time, this post is not finished. I sent an email to ETS with some questions that need answers. You should expect to see updated information in the next few days as we get more information.
I will use the word “proctor” again and again in this article. You may want to look in up in the dictionary, or read my definition bel ..read more
English Success Academy
3y ago
This blog post continues from Part 1: The “At-Home” TOEFL iBT for COVID-19 is here!
In this post, I’m helping you contact ETS to reschedule your standard TOEFL test as an at-home version. This is really important!
You must reschedule your standard test as a specifically an “at-home” test. If you just sit around and wait for the day of your test to come, you will not be able to just magically take the test at home.
There are actually 3 ways that you can contact ETS, but probably the easiest for them and you is if you just follow my email template below.
Open your email account.
Copy-paste the ..read more
English Success Academy
3y ago
This is Part 1 of a multi-part series about the new “at-home” version of TOEFL iBT that ETS is releasing. This is a temporary option because of the global pandemic, COVID-19.
As of Monday, March 23, this “Special Home Edition” option is visible when you register for a new TOEFL iBT test:
You should visit the same website that I show in the video. Click here to open the website with official ETS information.
My students and I are so grateful to ETS for creating this solution so fast. It’s definitely a better alternative to simply stopping all testing. Thank you ETS!
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English Success Academy
3y ago
In this video, Jaime talks about how to use spaced repetition in order to memorize vocabulary for reading and listening passages on the TOEFL iBT faster.
If you’ve taken the 12 Topics Classes with us, then you should already have flashcards that you made during the Topic 1 class. If you have not taken our class, then just note that this exercise is done under the assumption that you have the specific type of flashcards students make in our classes.
The flashcards that Jaime uses in this video are blank sample cards.
Celebration from an ESA Student
“After the Topic 1 class for improving m ..read more