Official Guide to the Toefl Test Original Edition

I have taken TOEFL Test and scored 115/120... Certainly, this book was important during my preparation. Actually, I first bought the Barron's Superpack, and it was really useful because it has 8 model tests, and I really like to overprepare... When there were only a few weeks before the test, I bought this book from the test-makers, and I believe it was a great deal... Even though it only contains 3 model tests (quite a few in my opinion, but ETS is working on it, releasing now volumes with actual tests), they are authentic ones and -as expected- provides students with a real sense of the test difficulty and what the test taker is expected to do in each type of question during the test. It explains all answers comprehensively, highlighting not only why one option is correct, but why the others are wrong. There are also plenty of examples of writing questions with actual students' texts and their scores; the same is true for speaking questions. Finally, the CD-ROM is, in my opinion, really good and I have not experienced any problems with it. However, its design on the screen and the way the students need to go from one question to another is a little bit different from the actual test.In conclusion, I believe that if you are gonna take the test, buy this book; preferably, if you have time, in addition to another book with more model tests, even though they will not be authentic...

I am currently using this book to study for the TOEFL Exam and it is amazing. It has great techniques to save time & score higher as well as alot of previous authentic exam questions. The CD actually works fine and all exams are there but it needs to be installed. Although many people said not all of the exams worked for them, they worked just fine for me. Highly recommended book if you want to score higher than 90 on the TOEFL. Will update with my score as soon as i get it.Finally got my TOEFL Scores & Highly recommend this. I got a total of 109 from 120 with the least of reading at 24/30. Highly advised to study from this book but if you want a score of 26 or higher in reading you need to have a high knowledge of alot of vocabulary as many of the toefl exams include hard vocabulary.

In general, I think the ETS Guide is the best book to use for TOEFL preparation. In fact, I lobbied my college department for years in order to get them to switch to this book for our TOEFL prep program. They finally did, just in time for the 4th edition, and now I am totally pissed off about the CD change that came without warning! In the past editions, teachers could use the CD with their classes, because the CD allowed you to either install the test program or to just listen to the audio tracks. Since teachers are not allowed to install programs onto classroom computers, we now cannot use the part of the CD that requires installation. The 4th edition CD does not allow you to listen to the audio tracks without installing the software. So now all the students have books and the teachers have books, and we cannot play any of the audio tracks in class! There was no indication of that change at all before we got the book. I can't understand why ETS would make that change, surely knowing that many schools order the book for classes and that teachers would not be able easily access the audio tracks in class. Therefore, I give the book 4 stars instead of the 5 it would have otherwise.

I got this book with the aim to have a excellent grade in the TOEFL and because I did not have a lot of time to study was one of my main reasons to buy it. It is an excellent tool because it explains with great details all the major points you need to understand in order to obtain an excellent grade in all 4 sections of the test. In particular, I think the Writing section is extremely helpful not only because of the tips it gives you to improve your writing skills for the test, but also because it has at the end of the book great recommendations to improve your writing for academic and professional purposes.In general, I strongly recommend this book for anybody who not only would like to pass the TOEFL, but also would like to improve his/her english language skills. Good luck in your test!

This book is really good. Before it i had no clue of how the TOEFL test was like, so this book gave me a very accurate overview bout the test. It provides lots of exercises for each area of study. Only bad thing is that you dont get feedback for the listening, writing or speaking sections test. However, it brings good examples of people who did the test and allows you to know how an excellent answer looks like, a good, regular and bad one specifically. It will depend on you to evaluate yourself constantly so you'll judge your own progress. You can always complement your studies by using TOEFL apps, reading newspapers in english and so on. Im still waiting for my results!!!

I am very thankful for this book, I have passed my toefl exam with the help of this. This is very informative,very easy to follow and most of all it is direct to the point. I highly reccomend this book together with barrons as your study materials. I thought i will not pass the toefl specially on the speaking question since english is not my native tongue but with the help of this and the additional CD ive reached my goal,score of 26 on the speaking area which is the minimum requirement to qualify for the nursing liscensing program in washington state. I am one step closer of becoming a nurse. With the help of this,studying and praying I passed the toefl. Very grateful of this book.