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 - all you need in one bookI am very satisfied with this book. It helped me pass the Toefl exam and my opinion is that this book has everything you need to be prepared for the exam. Rating:  - Great book!This is really great book which gives you the most realistic idea of how the real TOEFL test will look like! Just buy it, study thoroughly and you will succeed on the test! Success to everybody! :) Best, Kanat from Kyrgyzstan Rating:  - not the best.... although it might be good if your English is above.. an upper intermediate level. Say you took the TOEFL CBT and got 240-260, then this book is good for you: it'll help you get familiar with all 4 sections, and the different question items in the test. Make sure you get it with the CDROM, you'll have 4 full tests that you can use to practice either in "test mode" (no pauses, no feedback until the very end) or in "tutor mode" (you get the benefit of stopping, resuming the test, etc) I liked the model answers, they are good if you are self preparing as well. You'll get a hint of what TOEFL expects for their different scoring criteria. BUT! Warning!!! The book is just that: getting familiar with the test. It's poorly designed, example: the answer key follows immediately after the exercises, have a piece of paper or you hand! to cover them while taking the mock-up exercises. There's no hint as to our to BUILD skills necessary for the test. Lots of blah blah blah ("tips") but NO scaffolded exercising!!!!! So, yes, it is by ETS, the owners of the test! but well, it's clear that their business is test and not text design. So, if your level of English is not the greatest get the DELTA book, WAY MUCH BETTER, WAY MORE EXCERCISES, and you'll get it for just 4 or 5 dollars extra. Well, hope this helps. -- Rating: - not on me expectedrealy , not very good , and maybe give you a glance , but not good to preper for the test Rating: - The Real iBT GuideI use this book as pre-test material, my iBT score is very much similiar with my pre-test using this book. However, this book has no computer based soft so i get a lower score than i expected cauz the real test is much different (paper vs computer). you'd better to buy one book with a test soft together. In association with Amazon.com | |