TOEFL IBT 31Oct 2009

[ivanstanchev]

I took the test yesterday in order to raise my 103 score and I have to say I was pretty disappointed.The reading section was fine.I am hoping for a 27-8 but the listening one was BRUTAL.Out of the 9 listening passages,I only had about 2 or 3 (at most) questions of the type ''listen again to part of the conversatino''.Usually,every passage contains at least one of these.I really messed it up.Hoping for 24-5 ,when I scored 28 in August.
The speaking was OK.I think I would have done better but it wasnt that bad.I would be happy for a 24-5 too.The writing was very pleasant.Hoping for 28-29.
Good luck to everyone !

[pembina]

Udachi Vanya! Cross my fingers for ya.

[accepted2010]

I hope you will get good score!
Can you remember writing and speaking part ? how was it?

Thanks in advance

[Tatyana_T]

Hi!
Could you please share with us questions from independent speaking/writing sections?
Thanks in advance

[ivanstanchev]

Speaking:
1.Describe a person that makes you laugh
2.Live in one place forever VS move all the time and live in different places

Writing:
Do you agree that it is not a good thing to move to a different country / town because you are leaving friends are relatives?

Surprisingly,the 2nd speaking prompt and the WR one were quite identical ..

[sinachi]

Hi Ivan,

The questio was like this:
Are you agree or disagree?
People who move to a new town/ country would lose their old friends.

[ivanstanchev]

Nope,I remember very clearly that there was ''it is a good thing''
Do you agree that it is not good for people to move to a new town/country because they will lose their old friends

[ekatterina]

I envy you for your first score...and wish you good luck with your new score.

[sweetu1995]

Originally Posted by ivanstanchev

I took the test yesterday in order to raise my 103 score and I have to say I was pretty disappointed.The reading section was fine.I am hoping for a 27-8 but the listening one was BRUTAL.Out of the 9 listening passages,I only had about 2 or 3 (at most) questions of the type ''listen again to part of the conversatino''.Usually,every passage contains at least one of these.I really messed it up.Hoping for 24-5 ,when I scored 28 in August.
The speaking was OK.I think I would have done better but it wasnt that bad.I would be happy for a 24-5 too.The writing was very pleasant.Hoping for 28-29.
Good luck to everyone !

LISTENING was too bad for me too. Did you feel that in some of the questions the answer choices were confusing? It was hard for me to decide between 2 of the choices.

[ivanstanchev]

Yes,there were questions in which none of the answers seemed correct and another questions that seemed to have more than one correct answer.