I have finished my TOEFL test on Jan.12 with a satisfied score.

During the time that I was preparing for TOEFL, I was benefited a lot from the suggestion listed by the people who attended the test. Considering that many people take TOEFL CBT for the first time like me, here I'd like to share my experiences below, hope it is helpful to you.

以往经验中说机经或备考经验的有许多，所以，我只是侧重应试要注意的问题，看完此文，你基本对TOEFL CBT考试及注意事项会有足够的认识。个中有些观点比较个人，虽然我认为很正确，仅供参考。

First of all, I am really sorry that my Chinese typing is extremely slow, thus I have to type most of my words in English.

ATTENDANCE

* Besides arriving earlier than half an hour and bringing 2 of your ID, you'd better to bring your confirmation No. as well.

In my case, they made a little error in my personal information therefore can't justify my test eligibility. Fortunately, I put a sticker with confirmation No. on my passport, so finally find my information out.

* Before testing, the steps you should follow are:

- Put your personal belongingsintosthe lockers

- Sign up for your attendance

- Make a statement promising not to reveal any of test content and sign your name

- Give the statement to the officer and wait until you are called.

(For anyone who wants to take a rest instead of taking test soon, you'd better to sign up your attendance or hand in your statement later.)

- When you are called, they will check your ID again, ask you to double check your personal information and take your photo. After that, you are IMMEDIATELY allowedsintosthe room to start the test. (That's why if you'd like to take a rest, you have to arrange it before this step.)

BEGINNING OF THE TEST

At the beginning of the test, you will be shown some introduction such as how to use mouse etc. There is a small button "Quit", you can press it to enter the next part. Just feel free to press it to skip the introduction if you don't want to see. (For me, I don't know it before. When I press the "quit", worrying about making mistakes, I really feel pressured.)

LISTENING

After you skip the introduction of the beginning, you will enter the tutorials for Listening, which is important so can not be dismissed. When the time you are reading the tutorials, you'd better to find whether most of testers in the same line as yours has arrived, because their attendance might dilute your listening concentration. If only few people have arrived, you can read your tutorials slowly to extend the time. When the time to adjust the volume of the earphone, remember to make the volume "one click" LOUDER than the one you like. Because in the actual test, the volume is a little bit lighter than what the testing voice is.

Many people don't notice that the volume can also be adjust through旋纽on both the left and the right of the earphone. I would say, they are very useful to adjust the voice balance, rather than increase or reduce the volume. Adjust voice balance is also very important, which can fit your daily habit very well.

When you enter the part试听，began to practice your concentration. Because it takes a little time for you to enter a good status for listening, this part is really a good beginning to be fully utilized. For me, I thought that I have to save some energy for the real test, so just try to be relaxed during this part. Actually I was wrong at that time. Just like before running, you have to warm up first.

When the moment the real test started, the volume of the earphone will suddenly back to be very small. Don't be shocked at that time, just re- adjust the volume by clicking the volume arrow. You can finish it in a few seconds because you needn't to adjust the balance of the volume again. This adjusting time was included in the total listening time.

After finishing adjusting the volume, DISMISS the direction immediately! There is a square button on the middle of the right side. Press this "dismiss" button to save the time for your listening. During the test, two of the most important things are: highly concentrating (千万不要胡思乱想！！) and memorizing the key points.

我的考试一共是49题，估计一月考的人都会是这样，不再象PP中是30题。所以大家要有充分的思想准备，以免到时吓一跳影响考试心情。答题时间有25分钟。我觉得很充裕，我答完还有大概8分多钟。所以大家对答题时间应该不要感到心理有压力，够时间的。需要提醒的是，对你不知道的题，你要果断猜一个，确认，做下题。猜题的时候最容易不知不觉费很多时间，这样可能会让后面不够时间的。不要捡了芝麻丢了西瓜！更何况这颗芝麻也不一定能捡到。反正左右都是猜的，读读四个选项，做一下推理和排除，最多花个1分钟时间，果断选择，然后做下一题！对于你不确信的题，做完就不要再想，不然一样容易影响后面的题目。

我的考试是：Part A: 19题短对话和Part B: 9个段子题

我考(我的听力是24)的短对话中，多数是两个人对话来回三个回合的，后来出现些四个回合的，有没有五个的，我忘了，有也很少，不然应该会有印象。

我的Part B中有6个是学术形的段子，分别为：天文两个(月亮，Jupiter旁边的asteroid)，文化一个(画画的techniques)，农业一个(Fish farming),生态学的一个(Lake的生态平衡)，考古一个(鉴定古画)。题目一般都是4个一篇，有个别是3个，有一篇5个。有3个是long conversation,校园生活相关的。这种比较简单，而题目只有两个一篇。

题目中主题题时必考的。

关于听力的机经。个人认为要不看得滚瓜烂熟，要不就不要看。事实上，我认为，听力PP在23以上的人，完全没必要看听力的机经。因为考试做题的时候，concentration集中精神非常非常重要，但是当你听到这似乎是机经段子时，你很容易在脑海里检索机经的内容是怎样的，试图调机经出来。尽管你会很小心的这样做，但是一样很容易让重要的内容slip过去没听到或没记住。我的经历就是这样，所以考完试虽然我也很高兴，但是心里总是隐隐遗憾，觉得凭自己考应该可以做到25或26分。对于听力还有问题但是不得不在近期考试的朋友，个人认为可以练习提高听力的同时，将机经看得非常熟练，做到一听到就知道机经的内容是怎样，根本不必想。(如果做不到这样的，不如把看机经的时间那去练听力吧。)因为机经的重复率还是挺高的，我的九个段子中有三个是有机经的，可是，与我而言(机经只在临考前一天速看了一遍)，根本就没有帮助，反而因为回忆机经而漏记了一些重要内容。因为只要你能听懂，怎么详尽的机经都不够自己当场听的多且清楚。你听不清楚的，机经可能更不详尽(因为被ETS大堆段子狂轰乱炸之后，还能回来回忆内容并且记录确实不易)，所以记起也没用，反而让自己漏掉更多的内容。

听力的难度跟PP还是挺相当的。测试PP，你可以知道自己实际考试的分数大概会怎样。所以建议留PP2在临考前几天才做。PP1则可以拿来做多几次当练习。

(题外话，跟本文的主题不是那么相关，但是还是想和你们share我的听力三大"黄金原则"：Practice these 3 abilities during preparation: Understanding, Concentration and memorizing. 3种能力,缺一不可。在后期准备中，understanding已经没有大问题，锻炼memorizing重点内容尤其重要。考试的段子sometimes unbelievable long, but the questions will still ask something very detail.)

GRAMMAR

It's not a big problem to most of the Chinese testers. So I just want to say:

- When the real test started, dismissed the direction to save the time.

- Keep a good pace. My total questions are 20 for 15 minutes, same as in PP. My split is 8 minutes for the fist 10 questions, 7 minutes for the last.

10. I have 2 minutes left after finishing this part.在做题到中间(10题上下)的时候，要用眼睛扫一下左上角的时间，这样，你有足够的空间决定后面的题要加速还是减速。

- Be careful in the sentence correction, don't make a choice until you have observed all the four choices.

这句话也是我临考前一两天告诫自己的话。通过控制pace和仔细，我的语法是13-29.平时做PP模考时最高也就28这样，但是剩5分钟以上。其实平时review时发现有很多题是粗心错的，所以模考和考试时一定要让自己多长一个心眼。

(PS:新东方的2002年4月语法笔记非常好用，不妨在网上download下来在考试前最后两三天的时候review一遍或两遍。)

BREAK

- After the grammar part, you should rush out to toilet and eat some chocolate whether you have