TOEFL Tuesday: TOEFL Writing Practice Exercise HD

Get ready for the TOEFL! See the TOEFL Writing exercises here: http://magoosh.com/toefl/2015/toefl-exercises/ 1. Diagnose with an essay (or three) The first time you practice with this list, do a diagnostic exercise. Write just one essay to learn about your weaknesses. If you’re unsure after that first essay, write another, and maybe even a third. By that time, you should have a good idea of how you could improve your essay-writing process. Is it the timing? Do you need to improve your use of transition words? Did writing the introduction cause trouble? What about the conclusion? 2. Do focused practice For example, if you had trouble brainstorming your diagnostic essays, you would then brainstorm for the next ten questions all in one sitting. You could do this in just ten minutes! Set a timer for yourself for each question that you will use for focused practice. If you want to write introductions for all ten essays, that might take five minutes per essay, or around an hour. After doing this focused practice, you can also return to specific questions from these ten and write the full essay for extra practice. But if not, move on to step three: 3. Put it back together After you’ve done that focused practice, you should definitely return to writing full essays. You want to incorporate the skill you practiced into the complete TOEFL writing experience. Give yourself 30 minutes per essay, and use the remaining questions to write full responses. Even when practicing in this way, you could easily spend four or more hours. That a lot of time to spend on only the independent writing task, so don’t do it all at one time! I recommend doing one step per day. Diagnose one day, do focused practice the next, and then put it back together with full essays on the third. Improve your scores: http://toefl.magoosh.com Visit our blog: http://magoosh.com/toefl/