5 lb. Book of TOEFL Practice Problems: Book + Online Resources (Manhattan Prep 5 lb. Book Series) Csm Pap/Ps Edition

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This book is so good really. Thank Amazon for sharing with us.

This book is overall good and you can access only the material on listening and speaking question in tracks online for only one year after that it expires. Moreover, the reading and writing material is not online so you have to refer to this big book and read through. I would recommend search other book store websites before making a purchase on this book for $80. It is worth saving some money if you can purchase from Barnes and noble or other book stores where you will get to for half the price. If you purchase a used book then you might not have access to online material because someone else must have already registered and used that access code.

You can access to listening files only for one year. After that, there is no other way to practice listening and other sections that require audio files.

Toefl is basically a listening test so I would have liked to have the CD

the book doesn`t contain the online resources, and nobody answer the email to register the book, and access the electronic material, what terrible book and a terrible service.

I am Domenico AKA Carcass, a GRE Expert and run GREPrepClub Forum CommunityStudents who are aiming to get into a prestigious Business School should be always on the lookout when a book is released by a highly rated and well established, as well, prep company such as Manhattan.We are not here to delve into what Manhattan does in terms of preparation for several kinds of exams: GMAT and GRE on top of that. Today, we are going to review the latest book from this well-respected brand for, probably, what is the other key-exam when a (foreign) student needs to craft his/her application for a BS: the TOEFL iBT exam.I am not going to explain what this exam is or represents.Referring to this link for a more than exhaustive overview [u]gmatclub.com/forum/best-toefl-ibt-books-test-and-strategy-review-237398.html[/u] both in terms of TOEFL itself and the best books to tackle at the best the exam.I am going to review the Manhattan Prep TOEFL 5lb Book of Practice Problems. I was a bit surprised when I came across it. Usually, it is a great thing about Manhattan: they do very well their job when we are talking about the strategy to tackle a particular exam, and even more better when they produce practice material. They really know their business. They have a massive core expertise.Reading Section************************The section is a massive, almost an overflow, of passages: 38 to be precise. This is a huge resource for practicing. Not only that: they cover actually all area of contents that you could face off during the real exam: natural and social science, humanities, mixed and so forth. This is the major strength/goal of the book in my opinion: prepare the student for not being surprised, giving to them a very large panoramic of what a passage is and its unfolding. The passages themselves are very good written and contrary to my expectation, they are not the famous MGMAT passages recycled for the TOEFL purpose at hand. They are tough and intricated enough. They are great for practice. Unfortunately, Manhattan didn't hit the nail on the head. The passages are slightly off-set because at a closer look they do not have the consistency of an official passage. If you really know the TOEFL business, you know that official passages are silky when you read them,they are tough (even a lot) but have a certain beauty and the result is almost a pleasure to read if you were not under the exam pressure. These passages, instead, seem more a good puzzle in which every piece certainly fit in but not perfectly, not giving you a perfect picture. Not only that: the questions following the passages are a bit off. They rely too much on vocabulary word-meaning when the official material and during the real exam maybe pop up in front of you at most one of this question type if not none. It depends.Nonetheless, the section is a good deal of quality and quantity, well balanced.Listening Section************************Comparing to the first section you face off this section is better. The tracks are incredible to hear, in any sense, 76 divided between lectures and conversations. The contents are fair: gist-contents, details, inference, organization overall of the speech and function of what is said by the professor or whoever she/he is. So far so good ?? not really. The official material, if you really analyze it very super carefully, has, when the question is in front of you and even you didn't catch every single nuance of the speech, two questions almost clearly wrong and two tricky to choose from. In this latter case you can have an educated guess. Here not: often one is the winner and the other 3 are off pretty straight if you use a bit of logic, following the overall sense of the conversation.Overall, it is well crafted by the authors.Speaking Section************************Here we do have kinda like 48 samples speaking questions distributed among the six tasks you have to face. Nothing to point out really here. Manhattan did a great job to create especially the integrated tasks from 3 to six. However, what I do not like quite a lot are the sample responses for instance to task one: the independent. An excerpt:"Talk about a specific skill that you developed at some point in your life. What is the skill? How did you develop it? Why is it important to you? "The answer"Um, I think learning how to drive a car. Uh, it wasn't easy for me and I didn't learn... start learning how to drive until I was a little older. Um, I didn't need to know how to drive, uh... because I was very close to my school so I walked or had a ride from someone else. "As you can see it is on average. I would expect a better job from the authors on this. It is behind the curtain that you really learn the strategy and the possible tips and tricks of the case to score really well.Writing Section************************This section is cracked between 8 questions for the integrated task and 8 for the independent task AKA the essay you have to write for the TOEFL iBT. What I do not like, even though I must admit they did a good job, is once again the sample essays. For instance in the first one:"loyalty is the most important quality in choosing a friend"They do not follow strictly the template to score 6 in this section. The restatement of the stimulus is not the top notch in terms of paraphrasing. The hooks for the subsequent 1# and 2# paragraphs are not five stars as I would be expected. The stuff is pretty flat.Appendices Section************************This section, I like quite a lot. They have tried to summarize, teaching the students, guidance notes such as how English works and making a sentence. For instance the latter is useful for novices when they are going to write the independent task: sentence structure and subject-verb agreement.The Bottom Line************************I must admit this book is spring water for those have already exhausted the official material and want practice more for the exam. My suggestion is to use the book before, as always suggest, the last stage during which should be mandatory to use the Official Material. The best feature of the book is its value for money. So, if you are looking for tons of questions, a good compromise of quality/quantity, with this book you are welcome.Domenico AKA Carcass.

Do not buy this book.No CD for audio listening only access in the onlineaudio service with coupon code .If you try to use online audio access only valid for 1year ,after that they denied and blocked my account. Never trust this book if you're not sure to get your score within in one year. Try to stick with other resources.

It's a good book for preparing TOEFL. Online add-on questions are also available after registering this book. But the difficulty level is not even. Some articles are quite more difficult than the others. Also, I wish there were mp3s support for this book. Although you can find sound files and play them only on their website, it would be more comfortable for me to be able to download them.

The book is argubly the best when it comes to TOEFL preparations. Loads of practice questions to boost one's confidence before giving the actual exam.

Bom livro para se preparar para o TOEFL em razão da grande quantidade de exercício. Porém, não apresenta dicas ou macetes para se obter um melhor desempenho. Não se trata de um manual, mas sim uma coletânea de exercícios.

Got digital access code which worked

O livro on-line não é nada prático.Os itens para respostas não são classificados com as letras a), b), c) ou d) e nem por númerosOs audios travam a todo momento, portanto é impossível ouví-los apenas 1 vez.Tem muito conteúdo bom, porém, muito desorganizado. Preciso de algo prático.