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Hi , I really want to thank Test magic. It was really helpful for me especially for essays. I found the test quite okay and may be because of that I was expectign more score . I got score for structers as 11-28 . Does that mean i got 9 wrong out of 20 . I think its difficult to sit continuously for so long . I would suggest that solve more total practice test and get really comfortable with solving entire test at a strech. Cheers Meggy

thanx Arpornrat for the feed back Yes i am worried about my typing speed and the mistakes i have been making while typing .... I barely managed to finish my essay in 30 minutes .... I am unsure about whether to type the essay or write it on paper?

eager to know comments about my essay . please if some body could take out some time . I am givign my Toefl tomorow ie 21st february. Thanks in advacne People are of diffrent nature. Some like to plan their free time and others make absolutly no planning to spend their free time . Like two sides of coin ,both the approaches have thier advantages . Planning things in advance is indeed benificial to those who like to travel alot, to meet lot of people and people who always want to try out lot of things . If some one want to relax in free time , will enjoy the unplanned approach . He might be loved by some one for his surprised visit . First of all , People who always are curious about trying out lot of things in life for experiance. Plannign things in advance will give them more time to accomplish all the activities. For example , one fday you decide to explore the musium in some area , if you have planned approach , you will find out the distance to drive, the timings for musium and important things to watch in advance . Hence you would definatly be able to enjoy it . Secondly , if you like meeting diffrent people and if you don't plan meeting in advance the probability of not getting to meet that peron because of his some plan for free time will disappoint you . So planning will be helpful while meeting people and plannigng to visit new places in free time . On the other hand, If one wants to relax in his free time , planning would not help him much . In fact by keepign it unplanned he will enjoy the freedom . Anyway a perosn has to plan things in routine life irrespective of his liking . So this moment may be precious for him and will make him feel relaxed . Finally , One may make an unplanned surprise visit to meet his family memers , and feel satisfied with the happiness seen on thier faces . Unplanned approach is good when you are doign things along for relaxation or meeting family members . Though the above two approaches have advantages in thier own way .I, find myself more comfortable with the first appraoch . I am fond of travelling and visiting new places with my friends. As the trip depends on various factors like getting tickets , considerign free time of other friends and booking of hotels when we reach there. The planning things well ahead in time has always helped me . To conclude , planning or not planning free time depends on the kind of activity and the purpose. Both definatly have thier distinct advantages . I always choose to plan my free time to make my trips to new place successful .

Hi all Please let me know your feed back about my essay. Thankyou very much for comments . Now a days government of various countries are spening enormous money on thier space projects. In my opinion , governments should first spend money for our basic needs on earth .I feel so because several reasons such as : The primary function of goverment is to take care of needs of all people; spending enormous amount of money on space exploration project will hamper the performance of govenrmnet toward common people's needs. First of all , The goverment needs to perform all possible trys to make the life of common people better and secured.Though the space project might help people by certain discoveries ,they are not the primaey needs of people. What common man needs first is a house to stay ,employment to earn his braed, hospitals to save thier lives from seveal diseases,schools, liabaries for thier childern to give them good education,security from social threats. There are diffrent kind of people with diffrent finanicial status . Not all can affort expensive education . Goverment need to make available certain level of education to all kind of people. There should be displine and control in cities to make people feel secured from criminals and anti social elements. Government needs to make plans for security from other countries, generatign employment, plan for taking care of orphans . Thus the government has several primary function to be performed. Secondly, The several primary functions of government requires lot of money which somes from taxes. The government uses that money to serve the common man . The street lights , public liabraries , parks , special literacy programs , population control programs ,water supply and electricity supply are the functions performed by governments from the taxes we pay . The government also is responcible for encouragement to progress in several fields like arts , history, litrature, science etc. Exploring space is one of the responcibilty of goverment to make the nation's progress. But Spending any amount of amoney in this field will hamper the amount of money required for other developments. There will be no balance. The other field might get ignored and will not function in expected manner. for example , when there are lots of great discovires being made in space exploration on the other hand several villages in country may not have very basic facilities like water supply, elctricity supply , medical aid or primary school. When everybody is forced to pay taxes the governemnt needs to consider needs of all the individuals in the country. Thus the governemnt should plan and allocate funds to fields depending on thier priority. In conclusion , though goverments might execute few space exploration projects depending on thier ability the primary functions of government should be to take care of common man my fulfilling thier basic needs.

Hi LokeshRay well written essay . But in my opinion toefl point of view for such topics we need to take one stand . Let me know what you think about it ? Meggy

Hi This is my first essay posting . PLease give me your comments on it . Thanks alot in advance . Today lots of ready-made,frozen and a variety of food is available in the market .This has really made the prepartaion of food very simple than it used to be earlier. It has a great impact on the life style and health of people. First, the eating habbits of people, round the globe, are changing . Second , the varity of food is easily available with less efforts and hence people can spend a lot of time in other imporatnt things . Finally the food industry and the supporting indutries are booming and giving employmennt to lots of people and comforting the lives of everyone. Unlike olden days, when there was no avaibility of diffrent home devices such as mixers, grinders and food processor and microwave ovens cooking good food was indeed a tedious job . Today technology and great minds have changed the scene .There are lots of kitchen devices which makes the cooking really simple .There are lots of food companies which have made the cooking process even more simpler by making out new products like Frozen food, cut and chopped vegetables and lots of other things . Some familiar examples of such products are Knor soups, Kellocks cereals, Tortilas,Dominoes pizzas,noodles which are really healthy and easy to make and are liked by people all over theworld . Moreover, these companies make the food products by taking in to consideration eating habbits of poeple all over the world and also with certain health problems . For example A diebetic patient can now eat sweets because of the sugar free sweetener in tese products . The frozen food which is half cooked is also very simple to prepare that even children can make thier meals . Pizzas which were originally prepeared in Itali are now famous all over the world.The processed food can be used for a longer duration hence can be exported all over world . People from all over the globe are getting to to the food of other regions and can enjoy diffrent variety. Apart from chane in eating food habbits, people who are working 7 by 24 hrs a week can make healty and tasty food for themselves in hardly any time . People now can take out more time for thier work and still manage to get good food. Because of all these advancement in food industry and revloutionary food products making food is really easy now a days . Women can take out time for other things which they were not able to earlier. Earlier woman used to spend most of the time in cooking stuff for thier family Now they are gettign time to mange thier personal goals along with thier family satisfaction . Infact because of the easy cooking style even the family memebrs can make the food in thier absence. Therefore People are really getting to take out more time to satisfy thier personal and profesastion goals. Finanlly the important change in people's life is the growing food industry and the oter supporting industries. Food industry has given employment to several million people all over world by improving the food qality and easyness in cooking .This is considered to be the 100% profitable business. Food industry is now getting more value than ever before hence more and more people are attracted towards it . In conclusion ,because of the demand ,many children want to choose it as their professional goal. There have been several institutes to train such students . To conclude , the revloution in food industry which has made making food easy is really benificial to people in several ways . It has affected the eating styles of peopel all over world , given them the luxury and more time to concentrate on their carriers and also boomed of food industry.

_______ the Depression, individual stock ownership was common in the United States. a. It was during b.By the time of c.Because ans : b can someone give me explaination for this answer? Thanks Meggy

Hi I too chose A . but the correct answer is B . is there some specific rule which says over should be used ? Meggy

I have absolutely no doubt ______ the innocence of the man. (A) about (B) over © on (D) with Meggy Moved to proper forum; this is not a TOEFL-style question.

oops !! I think I sent the same reply twice... okay I got it . Thanks again . Meggy

Hi Erin Thanks Erin for that explaination . Actually I am not sure if they are from your site or some other site or some book . I had a list of some questions whose answers I got wrong . Since I didn't know about this site earlier and as I am stduding alone . I had just jorted them down . I must say this site is really good. Otherwise it is very disappointing when after checkign the answer one doen't know the explaination for it. After looking at the inversion rule I have some confusion about using inversion in first part or second part . looking at the contents of link I understood that we should use inversion in first part for Not only ... but hardly ...when never ... that But when should one use inversion in second part ? Can you please give me rule for when to use inversion in 2nd part ? Thanks Meggy

Hi Erin Thanks Erin for that explaination . Actually I am not sure if they are from your site or some other site or some book . I had a list of some questions whose answers I got wrong . Since I didn't know about this site earlier and as I am stduding alone . I had just jorted them down . I must say this site is really good. Otherwise it is very disappointing when after checkign the answer one doen't know the explaination for it. After looking at the inversion rule I have some confusion about using inversion in first part or second part . looking at the contents of link I understood that we should use inversion in first part for Not only ... but hardly ...when never ... that But when should one use inversion in second part ? Can you please give me rule for when to use inversion in 2nd part ? Thanks Meggy

Thanks for the answers. The answer for the first one is given as " against ". 2. Not only people who exercise regul arly report that they feel better, but exercise has also been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease. Yes "a" is correct . But can you tell me the reason for that . Why can we not use pattern not only ... but also over here. Meggy

Hi all , I am a new member of this group. can some one give me answers and explaination ? 1.One criticism of some well-established corporations that continues even today is that they profited ______ violations of human rights in the past. A. against B. in C. from D. to 2. I wish that the weather .......... not so warm. a was b be c were d is 3.Not only people who exercise regularly report that they feel better, but exercise has also been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease. 4.Humphrey Bogart took his first excursion to Hollywood in 1930, made his film debut in a ten-minute short Broadway like that. 5.Many a graduate wish to return to college and abide in the protected environment of a university, particularly if someone else pays the bills. looking forward for the response. :) Meggy