One day I got a bad news from my friend telling me that he failed in TOEFL test. I was surprised and I asked him the reason but obviously there was no clear answer for that. I started to look at the standard test like TOEFL, ILETS and so as “a profitable trade” and the victim is the examinee. But when I look at the real life, a question will be raised in “how can we measure the students ability to be accepted at the university or for other further reason. When I read JJ article, I like the idea of taking the official test like TOEFL and others by the major. I would call it (TSP) and that stands for test for specific purposes. In this case, students would make a huge success in taking the test and it would be fair.
Friday, May 28, 2010
TOEFL or ILETS
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Bandar,
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a good idea to me and reminds me of when I took the GRE. I still don't see the point in an English major taking the Math part of the test. I will never need to know algebra, geometry, and calculus in my profession. And focusing on a specific area for the TOEFL and other tests of this sort makes sense to me. Thanks for bringing up this topic!