Is it too early for TOEFL sophomore exam?

Of course not ~ you can get better grades by taking more exams.

You can refer to this article "20 13 edition teaches you to customize the rhythm of your study plan+material collection".

We often see many candidates sharing their study plans, and at the same time, many candidates are looking for a perfect study plan, because we believe that "one's success can be copied", but we finally find that success is copied, not copied.

What the world fears most is comparison. We often find that students usually get worse grades than themselves, but they get more than 100 points in TOEFL, but their grades are better than him. When we took the TOEFL, their scores were always unsatisfactory. When we exclude those foreign factors, we will find that TOEFL is a good test to examine people's English ability, so this test focuses on understanding and application of knowledge. However, domestic English exams only test some knowledge points, not application. This is like the TOEFL test, testing why Nokia's lumia920 is popular and making a marketing plan for him; However, the domestic English test is the configuration of Nokia Lumia920. This is the focus of the study. TOEFL focuses on application, while domestic English tests focus on memory. This is why some people usually do not get good grades, but their TOEFL scores are passable, provided, of course, that foreign factors are excluded.

In fact, other people's study plans are the same, and everyone's learning ability is very different. For example, Koala Xiaowu can recite GRE words in 17 days, but even if you put an atomic bomb on your head, 1 month may not be able to recite GRE words. For another example, we always hear that someone listened to Gan Kun's advanced dictation package when preparing for TOEFL, and the listening score was close to 30. However, some candidates actually hung up the intermediate dictation package of Gankun, and it took three months to become a full member of the advanced dictation package of Gankun. All this is because there are great differences between people, and everyone's learning ability is also very different! When we were in primary school, we found that some children played with us until the afternoon of 12, and they could finish reciting the text the next day, but they went home to recite the text at 6 o'clock and recited half of it at 6 o'clock the next morning. This is because everyone's learning ability is very different.

Therefore, the same is true when preparing a study plan. If you take someone else's study plan directly, then this study plan must not be a good study plan, or even a misleading study plan. Because the differences between people are great! For example, investment immigrants, for billionaires, are nine Niu Yi hairs; for ordinary people, they are destroyed in three generations.

Therefore, when preparing a study plan, the first step is to measure your current level. Only a study plan made according to one's own level is initially feasible. Why is it initially feasible? Because we didn't know what our learning ability was when we made the study plan. Our learning ability can only be discovered slowly through the learning process of 1-2 weeks. In other words, the formulation and improvement of the study plan is a process, not overnight.

From this, we will find that in fact, when we are preparing our study plan, the first step is to have a clear evaluation of ourselves!

I. Evaluation

It can be said that the simplest way to evaluate yourself, or the best way to evaluate yourself, is to take the TOEFL directly. Maybe you will worry that you haven't prepared for the TOEFL test. Will it help if you take it? It's actually quite simple. Now the new TOEFL test focuses entirely on the evaluation of a person's personal English ability, and has nothing to do with whether you have taken the TOEFL test or not. Therefore, one of the best ways to evaluate yourself is to take the TOEFL. Of course, it is ok to take IELTS, but the official conversion table between TOEFL score and IELTS score is actually inaccurate. In other words, the TOEFL test is basically higher than the IELTS test. So the normal comparison of the two scores should be TOEFL 90 ≈ IELTS 7, TOEFL 80 ≈ IELTS 6.5, TOEFL 70 ≈ IELTS 6, TOEFL 50 ≈ IELTS 5, and so on. This is the correct conversion table, and the official conversion table is problematic.

As for CET-4, if you have just passed CET-4, the TOEFL score is about 40. Because the difficulty of CET-4 is similar to that of NMET, if the NMET passes, the TOEFL score should be around 40. If you pass CET-6, the TOEFL score is about 60-70.

Of course, if you think it is expensive to take TOEFL or IELTS, you can also take the real TOEFL test, that is, the new TOEFL breaks through TPO, but the problem here is that we can only get objective tests, that is, reading and listening evaluations. As for subjective questions, you can't evaluate them unless you find a very experienced teacher (you need to have taught TOEFL for more than 4 years, or have passed the TOEFL test 100, or have excellent TEM-8), so most of the evaluations on the market now are actually very inaccurate. In short, the easiest way is to take the TOEFL, which is the most direct and convenient.

Next, naturally, it involves a question of preparation time. If your score is around 40, I suggest you prepare for this exam for at least 4-6 months. If you are at the level of 60-70, I suggest you spend 3-5 months preparing well. If you are at the level of 80-90, it is also recommended to spend at least 2 months preparing. Not less than 4 hours a day. Such a time period setting can only be a rough judgment, and everyone needs to make adjustments according to different situations.

Remember that knowing yourself and yourself is the eternal truth! This is the first point-know yourself. As for skills? Simply put, before 90 points, you are not qualified to talk about skills!

Unfinished. . . . . . . . . . .