[wishtopass]

Hi Knok or all TOEFL-iBT examinees:

From my experience, I found out that we do not have enough response time for the TOEFL-iBT speaking questions. I think we should do something about it. WE should ask ETS to extend the response time for each intergrated speaking question to 2 minutes, and extend the response time for each independent speaking question to 1 minute. Plus, we need more preparation time for each speaking question, such as 45 seconds for independent speaking question and 60 seconds for intergrated speaking.

What do you think? I think everyone especially pharmacist need to do something about it. Maybe we should all complain to ETS, NABP and FPGEE organization through letters or e-mails that the english speaking test should only test our ability to speak understandable english. It is not fair to test our summary and paraphrase skill. We need more response time and more preparation time for all TOEFL-iBT speaking questions. Otherwise, having not enough time to prepare and to response to the speaking questions in the test would affect our scores a lot.

I have been getting reading 28,
listening 26,
speaking 23,
writing 27.

I think my spoken english is clear and understandable. However,I am still struggling to get a speaking score of 26, just because I don't have enough time to summarize or paraphrase my speaking responses. This test is not fair. If I have more response or preparation time for speaking questions, I would have got a speaking score of 26 a long time ago.

Thanks.

Wish to pass