American Corner State Islamic University (UIN) Walisongo held a Blended Event with the theme “How to Get High Score in TOEFL and IELTS” online through Zoom Meeting and offline in Theater Room 4th Floor, Campus 3 Library, Friday (02/09/ 2022).
Kartika Indah Permata, Master of Teaching English as a Second Language, explained that the TOEFL is a standardized test to measure the ability of someone whose mother language is not English.
“TOEFL is a standardized test to measure a person’s English ability,” he explained.
The purpose of someone studying the TOEFL is the number of scholarships, student exchanges, short-term courses, summits that require TOEFL as a requirement to register.
He explained that there are three types of TOEFL with the following details:
- TOEFL IBT: Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing (4 Hours duration)
- TOEFL Essentials: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking (length 1.5 Hours)
- TOEFL ITP: Listening, Structure and Written Expression, and Reading Comprehension (± 2 Hours duration)
Kartika gave some tips and tricks for doing listening, structure and written expression, and reading comprehension sections in the TOEFL.
“For the listening session, try to focus on the second speaker, be careful with the similarity of pronunciation, and choose the most different option. For the last tip, the terms and conditions apply,” he said.
For the tips structure section, he tells the audience to pay attention to the subject and predicate in the sentence. “In English sentences, at least there must be a subject and a verb. So we musthave high sensitivity to these two things," he explained. In the reading section, the tips given by Kartika are to look at the questions first, if you get points on the questions, start reading the reading passages. Kartika provides several recommended sources to support learning, such as the Cliffs TOEFL Preparation Guide, Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test, and Barron's Practice Exercises for the TOEFL. In closing, Kartika advised to often practice working on questions. "The strategy will be very minimal if it is not accompanied by practice questions and practices, and vice versa," he concluded.