TOEIC STRATEGIES

Listening
Part1 Photographs
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1.Scan the first few photographs while the directions are playing -->
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2.Know the two main kinds of photographs and how they are different.
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The cup is on top of the book.
3.Identify the main action or objects in the photograph
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What is the picture showing? Who, What,
Where and When.
The five common distractor types in Part1

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4.Use the back of your pencil to eliminate distractors.
Part2 Question-response
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1.Listen for the question word. (
question tag statements).
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2.Be familiar with the main question types. --> :
Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, Be, Do, Have, Tag
questions, : Didnt John just returned from Athens?, : or ,
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3.Recognize what information is needed to answer each question type.

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WHO CHOICE QUESTIONS

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WHAT noun phrase


WHEN STATEMENT- H
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WHERE

WHY

HOW
Asking about the
procedures by+ing
How much/many
How often
How about

How come?(=why?)

YES/NO QUESTIONS
(BE-DO-HAVE) Yes/No

TAG QUESTIONS
NEGATIVE Yes/No/uncertainly
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4.Choose an answer choice that expresses uncertainty. -->

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The six common distractor types in Part 2
Similar sounds, Time-frame confusion (
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) Echo distractor (
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5.Use the back of your pencil to eliminate distractors
Part 3 Conversations .
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1.Scan the question set before listening to the conversation

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2.Predict a suitable answer -->
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3.Be familiar with the main question types and the order in which they are presented >
Part3 : Main Idea questions, Detail
Questions Inference Questions.
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Detailed Questions .
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Inference Questions. .
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The four common distractor types
Not stated distractors (
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combination.
Part 4 Short Talks .
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A, B, C. distractors Part 3.
Reading

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Suggested time per item Suggested time per section

Part5 Approx. 30 seconds 20 minutes
Part6 Approx. 50 seconds 10 minutes
Part7 Approx. 1 minute 45 minutes

Part 5 Incomplete Sentences .

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1.Determine whether grammar or vocabulary is being tested -->
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2.Complete the sentence with our own word or phrase
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3.Pay attention to the words that come before and after the gap -->
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4.Reread the sentence again with the answer choice you have selected.
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5.Be familiar commonly tested B2 grammar points

Verb forms (including tense, aspect and use) Participles and participial phrases
Causative Nouns, count and non-count, compound nouns
Passive voice Connectors and conjunctions
Conditionals Adjectives and adverbs
Inversion, word order and syntax Comparisons
Subjunctive Prepositions
Infinitives and gerunds Word form
Determiners Parallelism
Subject-verb agreement Clauses (noun, adjective, adverb)
Pronoun agreement/form
Part 6 Text completion .
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1.Go straight to the sentence with the gap >

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2. Determine whether you need information from other parts of the text.

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( these, those, this, that, she, he) (however, despite, secondly)
(accept vs reject, hired vs fired).
3.Use part 5 strategies for items that do not test across sentences
Part 7 Reading Comprehension ,
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1.Understand how to read TOEIC texts >
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scanning skimming.
1a Know how to skim texts
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1b Know how to scan texts
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2.Be familiar with the main question types and the order in which they are presented.

Main Idea Questions ,

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Detail Questions .

Inference Questions
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Not/Except Questions
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Vocabulary Questions
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The common distractor types

Not stated, Echo, Restatement, Combination, Vocabulary (
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3.Know how to locate the information needed to answer the questions Main Idea (
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) Inference Questions, NOT/EXCEPT Questions (
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4.Use key words and phrases from the questions to locate the information needed to answer
each questions
5.Read the first question before reading the text.
6.Use the format of the text wisely.
7.Decide whether a double text question requires information from both texts.