test preparation manual. The CDs may be purchased either with the manual or separately. They present audio prompts for the Listening, Speaking, and Writing sections of all tests in the book.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Very bad editorial work, April 13, 2008
By
Bernardo Silva (New York, NY USA)
Though the book is quite complete and comes with a bunch of standard tests on the cd-rom, the text on the book refers to the audio cds time and time again, even though you don't have them. That renders most of the book's exercises useless.
Watch for typos, March 4, 2008
By
DS in SFO (San Francisco, CA)
I am an English instructor of ESL students, many who are preparing for the Toefl exam. I have reviewed 5 books myself before recommending students buy one. While this book appears to be well organized, WATCH OUT!!! It is loaded with typos and errors from the start.
For example, in the Model Test 1: Pretest, I counted 11 errors in just 5 pages!!!
For example, They indicate which paragraph to read, and have them numbered incorrectly (1 and 2 are ok, but they have questions for paragraph 5 and there are only 4 paragraphs!)
Vocabulary words on the test should be highlighted, but they missed one, so a student has to search for it in the paragraph, thus wasting valuable time for a timed test.
For the question asking the student to insert a sentence, the correct answer is "C" and the answer key has the correct answer as "B" - which is NOT correct!! Then they go on to say why B is correct, while explaining the answer response for "C". This is just careless and unforgivable for a test publisher!
On one answer - where three choices are required - they list the correct choices as: "E, F and D". Fine, but why not make it: D, E, and F?
The Toefl test is difficult enough for ESL students, and I would NEVER recommend a book that makes the test literally impossible and so confusing.
The Princeton books are so far, my top picks.
Good book for foreign people!, February 13, 2008
By
Luca Motta (Wigan, UK)
I'm an italian vet and I'm studying for my Toefl exam and I think that Barron's Toefl IBT is a excellent book! It is not very difficult and it provides to give you a solid english basis in order to take your Toefl exam.
To buy!
Its really good book for exchange student to study TOEFL, February 9, 2008
By
June P. (USA)
It is very good book
Barron is the best product for TOEFL
I recommened it
TOEFL is the best, February 8, 2008
By
Bobur Karimov (AK)
hey guys I'd like to suggest you about Barron's TOEFL, it really helps you to improve your english skills.
