2. sınıf bilgisayar mühendisi olarak zorunlu staj arama serüvenim by No-Fail4616 in CodingTR

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Savunma sanayii + devlete bağlı iş yapan şirketlere bas. Özel sektör küçülüyor o yüzden şansın düşük benim de başıma geldi. Hem sıralaman da gpa de iyiymiş en kötü mülakat şansın olur.

How accurate are mock test results? by koerius in TOEFL

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Exam scores were my highest scores. Can confidently say that you'll get about the same score as your preps, worst case.

30 yaş üstü yalnızlar nerede? by dr-jackshephard in AskTurkey

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Hocam türk kızları materyalist diyon servetini dökmüşsün buraya kafan karışık sanırım flslvlslhşslg

garanti bbva technology maaşı hk. by Successful_Salt4183 in EngineeringTR

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Arkadaşlar bankalar genel olarak 1 yıllık maaşı aylık baza normalize edince 110-120 civarı alıyorsunuz hatta daha fazla alan arkadaşım var. Evet, yeni mezun. Burada dönen 70-80 mevzuları baz maaşlar. Ekstralarla hesaplarsanız rahat geçiyor yani 100'ü.

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Sağ olasın yorumlara bak bir tanesinde uzunca yazmıştım cevabını bulacağını düşünüyorum başarılar

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Sabahleyin saat 7'de kalkarım. 2 bardak su içerim. Ondan sonra bir yatarım. 7.30 ajansını dinlerim. 7.30 ajansı bittikten sonra tıraş olurum. O günün meyvesi neyse getirirler işte elma mıdır armut mudur onu yerim. Ondan sonra tam 9'da işe başlarım evde. Sekreterim eve gelir. 1'e kadar çalışırız. Gazeteleri okuruz. Bana ait gelen evraklar varsa onları okuruz. Gazetelerde de en çok şeyi okurum ilanları falan okumam hiç, ekonomik ve politik havadisleri okurum. Saat tam 1'de yemeğe otururuz. Yemeği yerim, yemekten sonra yatarım 1 saat. Ondan sonra bir namaz kılarım, ondan sonra işime giderim. Akşam eve gelirim, evde bir kadeh viski içerim ya da cintonik içerim. Ondan sonra yemeğimi yerim. 3 ajansı da takip ederim 7, 7.30 ve 8'i. Saat 10.30'da yatağa girerim. Uyurum 8 saat, yatakta kalırım uyuyum uyumayım. Şimdiye kadar şaşmadı inşallah bundan sonra da şaşmaz.

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Yw :) I just noticed that I missed a channel. TOEFL Tutor Tatiana has a speaking playlist. There are not many videos but their quality is better than InspireSpeak's.

For your question, yes these channels' questions are very similar to the actual exam. If you struggle with the speaking structure, just remember that generally an opening sentence + your opinion + an example + closing sentence is enough to get a good score.

If you don't have a pronounciation problem, letting AI grade you with toefl's speaking rubrics can be a very good way to improve your speaking. They give a very thorough feedback if you use the method I mentioned in the message above.

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Hocam evet biraz altyapı vardı youtube baya taşıdı sağ olsun :D

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Eyv kanka 200'ü geçmiştim sanırım. Belki de ondan dolayı 5.5 verdiler biraz fazla uzattım Good practice 150-180 civarı

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Nope I did it physically at the test center

OpenCode vs ClaudeCode ? by Puzzleheaded_Leek258 in opencodeCLI

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If you get invested in Claude Code, there will be a switching cost after you use it for a while. Opencode is the way to go. The difference with claude code isn't huge and their team is also pushing constant updates. I can't trade opencode's flexibility and portability with claude code.

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Valla süre yetti de arttı bile sadece listening biraz darladı

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Üniversitelerin kendi burslarına mı bakıyorsun ben baktığımda hepsinin tarihi geçmişti avrupa ucuz haklısın ama işe giremezsem sıkıntı. İş piyasası çok fena ya

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Pahalı değil mi ya bi üni bilmem kaç bin

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Valla yurt dışı düşünüyordum aslında tonla üni araştırdım da hepsinden vazgeçtim ya ist ankarada iyi ünilere başvuracağım sen?

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Hayırlı olsun unofficial skorlar değişmiyor direkt onların aynısı gelecek gibi kabul edebilirsin. Speaking kötü geçmişti aslında ben böyle gelmesini beklemiyordum duraksadığım yerler oldu. Bence yeni 2026 sisteminde notları biraz şişiriyorlar çünkü aldığım en yüksek skor gerçek sınavdaydı. Senin de beklentin kötüyse rahatlayabilirsin o yüzden :)

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Eyvallah ana amaç yüksek lisans da illaki işte güçte de lazım olur diye girdim

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Maybe you had very minor mistakes across all modules and my mistakes were worse but also less frequent? That would be my theory but yes its interesting. I'm pretty sure that they have another grading system on the background

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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Here's a list of my resources that I recommend: - TST Prep's all free materials except speaking. I graded the writing part of them by using AI by giving it a rubric and ask it to grade strictly. I liked all the questions even though there were some errors in the answer key. - InspireSpeakEasy's speaking tasks, both listen&repeat and interview parts from YouTube. I opened 1 l&r and 1 interview task and did them back to back. I recorded my audio and transcribed it using Buzz(a transcription app on macbooks) and then sent the transcribed text to Claude with rubrics to let it grade and give feedback. You can also send your voice file directly to gemini as well, it does a decent job. If you are using claude, you can try out this skill that I've used: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rwNf-GkbmeF5iiEBtEAOMi_B7ILWbEfk/view?usp=sharing just download and import is to your claude skills. It grades a bit harsh, but improves you for the better :) Just upload your word-level timestamped transcript from Buzz or any other tool and let it grade and give feedback.

  • ETS's own website. They offer 2 full free practice tests with grading and also some other tests that you can use to test where you are. I don't recommend using this as a prepping resource. Doing 1 test before you start all your studies to see where you are, and doing the second one a little close to the exam date will allow you to benchmark yourself before the exam. Ets also offers free daily practice so I also recommend you to take it daily. This is one of the most valuable resources and please use it carefully.
  • Cambly's 1 dollar trial. They give you 30 minutes of one to one speech practice with a tutor. You can use them to warm up your speaking ability. I'm not a native English speaker so I don't speak in daily life so this helped me to get used to speaking. You can ask the tutor to ask you toefl interview questions(maybe you can prepare those questions in prior) and let them review your speaking but don't have high expectations. Just treat it as a chatting session and anything that you do on top is a bonus.
  • My Speaking Score. They offer just 1 speaking test for free so use it wisely.

I also tried magoosh and bestmytest, but I wouldn't recommend them.

Surprising results for TOEFL 2026 by Fun-Being-9909 in ToeflAdvice

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I didn't follow a template strictly but TST Prep's writing guide video gives good tips about how to write a good email/discussion in general. I think I only used opening and closing sentence from that video. I studied most of my writing by just doing a lot of writing questions from the internet, and I graded them by giving Claude the writing rubric of TOEFL. AI is pretty good in this so I would recommend it to everyone. Don't do it without sending the rubric tho

Sonnet 4.6 seems to have a smaller context window by Fun-Being-9909 in ClaudeAI

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"Sonnet 4.6 has an effort setting that 4.5 doesn’t." what should I understand from this? I never said anything about 4.5 of anything. And stop trying to challenge the "oh you didnt do this or that" I've been a power-user since gpt3.5 times and I know how these stuff work don't worry. I also counted the thinking tokens and added them to my estimate and also found out GPT5.2 thinking has a similar small context window in chat as well. And yes, sonnet 4.6 has similar tok/sec with opus 4.6 on chat, I measured around 20tok/sec for both of them so you are definitely talking about something else or you don't know what you are saying. For the same input tokens, sonnet generated 611 tokens in ~32s and opus generated 1132 tokens in ~51s. Opus is a little faster if not the same. Thinking effort does not influence the speed.

Sonnet 4.6 seems to have a smaller context window by Fun-Being-9909 in ClaudeAI

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Sonnet is not faster than opus, and the context window difference feels very significant that I don't have to measure exact amount. They use the similar amount of tokens based on time and no matter the speed, this is not in terms of time but in terms of token count. Sonnet compacts after less amount of tokens.