Tips for TOEIC test

2. Listening and Reading Test
Listening
100 questions, 45 minutes
Part I: Photographs (10 questions)
Part II: Question-Response (30 questions)
Part III: Short Conversations (30 questions)
Part IV: Short Talks (30 questions)
Reading
100 questions, 75 minutes
Part V: Incomplete Sentences (40 questions)
Part VI: Text completion (12 questions)
Part VII: Reading Comprehension-Single Passages (28
questions) Double Passages (20 questions)

3. Words learned from the context. The more words
you are exposed to, the more extensive vocabulary
you have.
- How to read: forget the words you don’t know, try
to figure out the meaning from context.
- What to read:
+ English newspapers (especially business and
travel section.)
+ Business textbooks.
+ Business-related magazines

4. - While reading: try to guess the meaning of the
words.
- After reading the text: look it up in the dictionary:
definition, derivation, part of speech.
- Note the new words in the VOCAB CARD
- Learn 5-7 words per day on a regular basis.
- Review the words frequently.

5.  Pay attention to how words are used. (look
them up in the collocation dictionary)

6.  Learn a word at least 10 to 20 times.
 Note the definition, make sentence in a
notebook and write spelling, pronunciation on
one side and meaning in the other side of the
VOCAB CARD.

7.  Say it aloud to activate your auditory
memory.
 Relate the words to the words you know.
 Put it in topics or in any kind of orders (small
to big, young to old)

8.  Make humorous example or story or picture
in your mind.
Example: egregious: extremely bad
Imagine: We have made such a bad mistake
that people are throwing eggs at us and a
rotten EGG REACHes US.

9.  Get in the habits looking up words you don’t
know.
 Play with words: play scramble, crosswords
puzzles.
 Study Latin words, prefixes and suffixes.
 Get excited about words.

10.  Listen to the news on the radio, on television
or even on the internet.
 The following web sites are highly
recommended
www.voanews.com/ (USA)
www.cbc.ca/listen/ (Canada)
www.cbsnews.com/ (USA)
http: www.abc.net.au/ (Australia)

11.  It’s helpful to first listen to the news stores in
your own language before you listen in English
 Don’t worry about how much you understand.
 Stop and review as many times as necessary.
 Write a brief summary for what you have
listened.
 Ask yourself some questions to answer
 Listen to the news with a friend.