I got my TOEFL score today! I was expecting that they mail people people when the scores are ready, but it seems like they don’t. As today “15 biz days” time limit expired, I went to the official site, logged in and found my score under a gift wrap right there waiting for me.
I got a decent 112! Was relieved when I saw this figure. As I wrote earlier, I won’t have been surprised to see a score around 100. So in the end, it seems I did well in the exam. Here is the break up(out of 30 in each section) I got:
Reading: 30
Listening: 30
Speaking: 23
Writing: 29
So I lost 7 out of 8 total lost marks in the speaking section. Hmm. But as I said in my last post, one needs to practice hard for this task in order to score well. And my preparation was superficial at best, hence not complaining. 
I am happy with my writing section performance for sure. On the GMAT I had got 5/6 which is not great(measly 60 percentile). But here 29 looks decent. Seems like writing rubbish on blog sites and frenzied application essay writing are getting counted.
December 21, 2008 at 2:43 am |
Great score!!!!
June 22, 2009 at 2:34 pm |
hey … congrats on scoring well … why exactly is the speaking section tough ?
furthermore is there some material that one should refer to for the exam.
August 26, 2009 at 9:24 am |
Srikant,
Thanks. I found the speaking section tough as :
a. you need to quickly organize your content(there are templates designed for this by experts)
b. you need to speak coherently, distinctly and clearly.
c. above points to be done within a reasonable, but short time limit.
I suggest you read my post on the TOEFL experience: http://milestonemba.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/46/