crease your TOEFL score and do more than great without expensive courses.


Having your TOEFL test in 2 months and working hard for it? Do you spend hours and hours every day studying and learning and memorizing but still feel uneasy? Or maybe do you feel like your score is not high enough even though you had spent a great deal of time practicing?


If your answer is yes on any questions above, then you’ve come the right place. Below are 10 little tricks of mine that i found really useful for me to kill the TOEFL test, hopefully they’d help you out as well.

1) Root word, prefixes, suffixes

Every time you memorize a word, you merely capture the image and order your mind “hey, whenever you see this word, it means this and this”. Of course, your mind would say “Sir yessir”, but soon will forget after some time. Now, is it much better if you tell your mind “hey this word means this and this because of this and this” And it’s where the root word comes in.

In English, words are composed of 3 basic components: root words, prefixes and suffixes. Root word is the basic part which define the meaning of the word. For example, bio- life, aut- or auto- self, dic- or dict- say, are root words that you commonly see. Prefix is part that is connected at the beginning of the word which would change its meaning. And in the contrary, suffix is part that is connected at the end of the word which would also change its meaning.
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2) Listen to the radio

If you have trouble with the listening section, here is an easy and effortless way to improve your skill. Turn on your radio, or any channel on TV that speaks English only 24/7. Even though you don’t understand what it is saying, just keep it on.

The key here is that you eventually will “absorb” the language. Your brain will adjust to the new sound and improve your listening skill, or sharpen it if you’ve already been familiar with the language. We all know that those who live in a foreign country eventually will be able to listen and understand its native language, if they stay there long enough. The same idea applies here, what you’re doing is basically manipulating an environment where you constantly have to face with the unfamiliar language