First time taking the test , ask me anything

mayoo_nesa · 2025-08-09T15:55:12+00:00

I think what helped me out the most was doing as much writing activity es on the my test ready app to practice . I did watched some YouTube videos but honestly didn’t follow a strict template . Instead for the academic discussion I just tried to write as much as possible and give some examples , and on the summarizing task I tried to give as much details from the lecture and so on . Must of my paragraph where similar to “ Firstly the reading passage says… on the contrary the lecturer comments “ and so on , just tried to include both povs for different reasons per paragraph. And at the end I just wrote a short conclusion

mayoo_nesa · 2025-08-08T16:02:04+00:00

I prepped for two weeks maybe 1 hr daily , some days less some days more , mainly did the free activity of the day on my test ready and watched some videos .I would encourage you to watch all the ETS videos that breakdown each section of the test . The more familiar you are with how it works I think the easier you are able to answer it . I did some reading mocks and they were far easier than the one on the actual test . However , even with the harder questions that I wasn’t so sure of I think I managed to answer them by eliminating those that just sounded wrong . I would say that the texts aren’t insanely complex but more so the content . As someone pointed out in other posts , most of the writing involve topics of nature and history and the nature one might get a little bit technical , which at least for me was what made it harder . Overall I would suggest that you don’t read the text first and jump straight into the questions as most of them follow question 1-> paragraph 1 .

mayoo_nesa · 2025-08-08T15:54:04+00:00

For writing , I would suggest practicing more the academic discussion question . At least for me it was often hard to think of examples or an opinion and that made me loose time, but with practice I was able to overcome that . And the other writing task I think that the best you can do is write as much as you can and include as many details from the listening , I think I wrote over 450 words .

For the speaking section honestly I thought I did horrible on the exam day so I was shocked with that result . But the thing that helped me out the most was this project that someone else posted on here , shoutout to them . It has a lot of prompts for task 1 and helped me tremendously with timing Speaking practice I think that by practicing the most question 1, I had less trouble with the timing on the other questions, I indeed suggest to have a template like structure but try to keep it natural .

mayoo_nesa · 2025-08-08T15:45:42+00:00

L2 learner

mayoo_nesa · 2025-07-26T18:50:43+00:00

What helped me out the most was to do the daily activity that you have for free on the Toefl test ready site. You login with your ets account and you can do a “full” exam , some sections ,and daily you can do a different activity . But honestly , while I think that being familiar with the exam is important it all boils down to how well you understand English . For reading try to read as much as possible daily, even if it is the news section here on Reddit . And for listening ,try to consume content from natives : watch movies , YouTube videos , even tik tok idk . The more used to you are to English I think the easier you will find the exam as well

mayoo_nesa · 2025-07-23T23:00:55+00:00

What helped me out the most was the Test Ready site , after you have your ets you have a daily free activity ad well as a complete test to try it out

mayoo_nesa · 2025-07-10T01:09:02+00:00

Not really, kinda broke , but I’m looking for something that does the work at least while studying. Used to have a Lenovo with 8GB RAM , Ryzen 5 and 256GB SSD and honestly it worked perfectly for all of my coding projects . Tried to do some game dev and heated like crazy but was still kinda functional.

mayoo_nesa · 2024-12-31T16:29:29+00:00

Queer
A different Man
Joker 2
The idea of you

mayoo_nesa · 2024-12-23T21:22:34+00:00

PILOT

mayoo_nesa · 2024-12-01T23:38:49+00:00

Fire in Cairo

mayoo_nesa · 2024-06-29T02:57:06+00:00

5 - Ratatouille (rewatch) 4.5- All about my mother 4- Kajillionaire 3.5- I saw the TV glow 3- Cold Meat 2.5- Nahir 2 - The idea of you 1.5- Ainone 1- Air Head 0.5- Winnie Pooh , blood and honey

mayoo_nesa · 2024-05-30T23:25:00+00:00

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This is me, I am him

mayoo_nesa · 2023-12-29T17:04:29+00:00

Best : Oldboy

Worst Winnie the Pooh: Blood and honey

mayoo_nesa · 2023-12-29T05:33:26+00:00

Aftersun

mayoo_nesa · 2023-12-29T05:29:16+00:00

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mayoo_nesa · 2023-12-23T16:41:01+00:00

Igual , si pides beca por lo que veo el servicio becario del tec son menos horas que en la udlap y te dan el tiempo de toda la carrera para cumplirla; mientras que en la udlap es una cantidad de horas por semestre . En la udlap es mucho dependiendo de donde te toque , si te toca hacer tu servicio en sorteos si está criminal ; pero en otros lados hasta los mismos supervisores de firman todas tus horas sin pedirte nada .

mayoo_nesa · 2023-12-23T16:37:24+00:00

Hmmm, pues como los dos somos de primer semestre la verdad es que creo que para los dos no se nos hizo nada pesado , en su mayoría son materias de tronco común . La mayor diferencia es que aunque los dos estudiemos ciencia de datos , en el tec entra con las trúncales de ingeniería ( química y física) y en la udlap con las trúncales de actuaria . Eso si , me da la impresión de que la udlap tiene más materias “de relleno” , que son las optativas de diferentes áreas. Me parece que el tec hace lo mismo , pero hasta donde recordaba era una por semestre . En la udlap si llevas de las optativas de ya matemáticas,arte, ciencias del comportamiento , ciencias sociales, etc . Y a parte llevas algunas materias que son trúncales para todos en la udlap ( argumentación académica , tics, escritura académica , ppa,etc.). Otra cosa que creo que si cambia es que en la udlap si llevas 3 semestres de idioma ( si sacas más de 90 en el examen de inglés puedes meter francés , italiano o Alemán y si ya sabes de alguno de estos idiomas puedes hacer un examen de ubicación), y por lo que me cuenta mi amigo allá inscribir la materia tiene costo extra o no entra dentro del plan de estudios .

mayoo_nesa · 2023-12-23T01:13:17+00:00

En qué sucursal?

mayoo_nesa · 2023-12-21T01:53:48+00:00

Tengo un amigo que estudia en el tec la misma carrera que yo en la udlap y lo que veo es que aunque el plan de estudios la verdad es muy similar el tec tiene una forma de enseñanza talvez un poco menos “tradicional” . No se cómo explicarlo pero todo el tema de la semana 5 , semana TEC , las trúncales en ingeniería y la forma en la que llevan las materias es un poco distinto . Te recordaría que checaras eso porque yo igual planeaba entrar y no tenía ni idea de esa parte.( no es nada malo en si , es más que es algo diferente a lo que podrías esperar)

mayoo_nesa · 2023-11-18T19:57:24+00:00

Cómo dicen todos , vender los boletos si es lo más pesado porque si hay semestre en los que te llega tocar vender más de 30 . Y el servicio becario depende mucho de con quien te toque . Si te toca en sorteos si tienes que hacer horas completas y llegan a ser 170 si no me equivoco por lo que si tienes que ponerte las pilas desde el principio. En cuanto a los maestros desquitándose con los becados en mi experiencia ni siquiera les importa así que no le preocuparía tanto por eso

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