Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #500562 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 504 pages

Customer Reviews

A Very Clear Guide for Your Exam
This book was an excellent guide in teaching how to master in the exam. When I went to take the exam, I had no surprises at all. Instead, I was ready for any kind of questions, ideas, tricks, and most importantly; very comfortable with the layout of the exam software. The book's accompanying CD has Complete FULL sample exams with their model answer key (including answers to the Oral Section, as well as the Written Section).

For those who do not have much time to study for their TOEFL exam, please do not worry. In less than 10 days, I was able to finish the whole book with reading periods of 3 to 4 hours per day. The book has very simple to understand English language; yet it presents a strong structure in their flow of sentences.

Another main advantage of the book is that it is divided to 8 chapters; each chapter introducing various questions in different theme: Technology, History, Nature...etc. Studying the first four chapters allows you to be more than ready for the exam as they introduce all the question types. The latter four chapters repeat the same question types but in different themes - which really broadens your knowledge to different words that you may expect on the exam.

I still did not get my TOEFL score yet, but I am more than certain that if it would be disappointing, it would be for some reason other than this book. You will not regret buying this book.

Waste of money!
First of all, the reviewers who gave 5 stars for this book are obviously employed by Kaplan. Just read their reviews. They are not foreign students whose second language is English. Disregard their comments.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This book is NOT organized like the TOEFL iBT exam. I would expect a good exam guide to have separate chapters covering each section of the actual exam. Instead, everything is all mixed up together in this book. There are eight chapters in this book, each covers a different theme: science, history, education, etc. Huh!?! This book will NOT prepare you to answer the actual TOEFL questions. I think this book was written before the TOEFL iBT was first released. Therefore the authors did not have the exam structure to prepare a useful exam guide. Shame on Kaplan.

The Official Guide to the TOEFL iBT by ETS is not perfect, but at least it explains the structure of the exam in detail. Until a better book is released, get the ETS book and do not get Kaplan's.

Really messy book
I am a person who is preparing for TOEFL after all the books i have revised, i just went through this book and finally thought i will not be capable to get a good score in TOEFL.This book cannot be read by anyone.After reading a few pages i thought i will not write my TOEFL exam., may be after reading some of reviews about this book, i belived that this is really a mess.Hey folks if you really really want to succeed in TOEFL my suggestion is that DONT READ THIS BOOKKK..,.,