I have exactly 30 days to take the IBT TOEFL. What is the best way to prepare to get the score of a 100? I am stressed about this test. Can I get over a 100 if I prepare well in a month?

I'd say do paper and practice tests on your computer/laptop. Whilst it is easier to practice the Reading and Listening sections by yourself as you can see your scores instantly, it is more difficult to train for the Speaking and Writing sections. It would therefore be great to find a TOEFL-buddy, i.e. a person who has written the test or is training people for TOEFL. The buddy can offer regular support by reading your essays and reviewing your answers for the Speaking section. If you don't have someone to work with you, for Speaking - you can record your answers and play them to you; for essay-writing - learn all the conventions and keep practicing timed writing. And of course, learn from your observations. However you decide to train for your exam, just bare in mind that you have to shape all your answers by the current TOEFL requirements that are presented on YouTube - as Gaurav suggested, on or on other useful websites.

25 days is more than enough to get a good score. Just to give you assurance, I started preparing 5 days before the exam and got a 114. There was a youtube channel that gave toefl tips for every section. That helped me a lot. Apart from that, do papers.

A month is a reasonable time to prepare for TOEFL. This is true, provided you've been reading and writing a lot of English all through your academic and personal life. I'll come to this point later in my answer. First, on how you should spend your 30 days. #1 Buy a book The book isn't that important. But the CD that comes with it, is. You can of course, torrent the CD content, but having an updated CD helps. #2 Familiarize with the pattern of TOEFL While preparing, I realized that TOEFL is hard because it's a complicated exam. I found its structure very complicated. The listening and speaking sections, especially are very demanding. The Speaking Section is hard, because it's a standardized extempore! To do well in TOEFL, eliminate the element of surprise by knowing which type of question after which one. Invest as much time as you have to, in this step. #3  Start by preparing for Speaking Section Speaking Section comes and goes at a surprising speed. The sequence of sections in the exam is - Reading, Listening, [break], Speaking and Writing. The Speaking Section takes about 20 minutes, and needs enormous concentration. In the actual exam, test-takers start speaking at the same time and it's hard to keep their answers out of your mind (even with noise-cancellation headphones) while attempting this section. First of all, realize that Speaking Section is not a conversation. In IELTS, you've a conversation with a certified examiner. In TOEFL, you speak into a microphone and your answer is recorded. This is awkward because, while you're being recorded every word you say is permanent. And the time for each answer, to each question varies. Some are 60 seconds, some are 2 minutes. Right at the start of the answer, you'd have to pace yourself so as to make all the points. Doing all of these require instincts. It's like learning to catch a ball. On paper, it's a hard exercise. You've to measure the trajectory of the ball, taking into account gravity and have to pace yourself based on how far you're from the estimated point of balls arrival. In real life, these things are easy, because we play a lot of cricket! And that's what you'd have to do with Speaking Section of TOEFL. Install a recording app on your mobile. Take the TOEFL book, read the tips they give for attempting the Speaking Section. Then answer the questions. If the question says you've 30 seconds to prepare, practice the notemaking for 30 seconds. Notefull videos on YouTube are excellent places to learn the note-taking skills. Answer the question in a uniform tone. You shouldn't be excited while answering the question or shouldn't answer it in a monotone. Use the inflections of a BBC News anchor and not of Arnab Goswami. The CD will have recorded examples. Listen to them, and speak like them. In the speaking section, fluency and consistency have higher weights than content of the answers. If you're asked a question, where you think you can make a lot of good points, don't attempt to say everything that you come up with. You'll run out time! (happened with me, and cost me 3 points!) #4 Prepare taking notes for listening section I'm a voracious note taker. I wrote down everything that was being said in the lecture. There are tips as to which points you should concentrate, but I noted down everything that listened to! Your notes would be shorter if you read "how to take notes in listening section" blog somewhere, but I skipped their advice. It's an impractical way, but you'll get 30/30 in the exam, if you write down everything that was spoken in the question! #5 Prepare the Writing Section like GRE analytical writing TOEFL's writing task is easier than GRE, because all then want from you is a cohesive structure in your writing. Avoid spelling mistakes like plague and grammatical mistakes like the Ebola. You're not expected to be a grammar Nazi, but you should avoid common grammatical mistakes. The foremost point - Type as much as you can! Higher word count = higher marks. However, don't boost the word count by unnecessary words like, "So" or using a large number of adverbs. While practicing writing section, use the http://hemingwayapp.com. It has improved my writing considerably. There is an integrated writing task in this section, which comprises of listening to a lecture and writing about it. There's no need to make notes on the details mentioned the lecture, because the transcript will be available while you attempt the task. Use the lecture to note points, and design a structure to your writing while the lecture goes on. Before the lecture ends, you should've figured out where the lecturer wanted the students to focus. #6 Do 2 Reading Sections before the exam Reading section is long. It's Breaking Bad-style long. You're not expected to have patience to practice many passages. But, practice at least two. Reading section has only one complicated part - Writing the Summary of the passage. Practice this part for as many passages as your patience permits, because this is the only place where you can lose marks. A month is a reasonable time to prepare for TOEFL. However, if you get a 100 or 90 or 110 depends on how much time you've spent with English. I prepared for ten days, with intensive focus on the pattern of the exam. My final score was 117, with 27 in speaking section (from my answer, you probably have deduced that I'm paranoid about that section!). I owe all of those marks to my GRE preparation, 4 years of watching every Emmy wining English TV Series, and novel reading (I wasn't an avid reader though. With an average of three books a year, during my college). So, do not be stressed. TOEFL can be hacked, but you have to approach the exam preparation scientifically.

In addition to the below suggestions, do this one thing - Increase your vocabulary.Building a powerful lexicon is an essential part of demonstrating to test examiners your confident command and control of English.Strong word power undergirds success in all four areas of the exam. Clear and persuasive speaking and writing are bolstered by http://www.city-journal.org/2013/23_1_vocabulary.html. The listening and reading sections are made easier when you have a rich vocabulary to call on.If you don't have sophisticated words to use on the TOEFL iBT or IELTS, examiners are not going to consider a higher score. Remember, "lexical resources" is a key component of your scores.In a short time like a month, I suggest IELTS Ryan videos on YouTube on vocabulary.  Here is an https://youtu.be/DweMwLnqNMA.Plus check out my http://selz.co/1ph1XRB, Grow Your Word Power: 301 Useful Vocabulary Terms.Good Luck!

1)Take a full practice test to know how much you can score without preparation. There are many free tests available online. However, these may not include tips and tricks for reading section. 2)You can buy a good book that covers sample questions,tests and scoring tricks. I used Princeton Review's Cracking the TOEFL Ibt with audio CD and really liked it. The CD contained a lot of questions on speaking and listening sections. 3)If you've prepared for GRE, your vocabulary should be reasonably good. If not, go through at least Barron's 330 wordlist or  http://www.majortests.com/. https://www.notefull.com/ can be used for practice. All the best!

Just one tip: Search for "Notefull TOEFL mastery" in youtube and the videos ease your preparation. One month is more than enough and you can easily score above 100.

I started my prep for TOEFL one day before the test and scored 110.So don't panic, 30 days is more than enough to score well in TOEFL.You can check my answer at: I followed this website https://www.notefull.com/ strictly. Follow any one book/website don't do too many things. The website provides very useful techniques and gives information about the catch in each question (which I mentioned earlier). Notefull videos are god! They have done a detail analysis of each question that comes in TOEFL and have broken it down to simple answers. Go through their videos and follow them to the T and I guarantee you will get above 100.I strongly recommend you use it! All the best!

A few years ago I had this idea of going back to school. Being a French guy in Asia, even though I have a few degrees, I needed to take the TOEFL. So I registered and went to the exam center on a grey morning. I hadn't prepared (no time), and had no idea what to expect. It was an interesting experience. The first part was easy. Reading and listening were easy enough. I think I had the advantage of age, as I have had lots of practice listening and reading. Getting a perfect score there is not hard.The second part however is another matter. On the speaking part you are judged on all aspects: not only the contents (and for young people it is sometimes a chore to sound articulate and knowledgeable, even in their mother tongue), but also on your diction. I lost a few points here. I probably should have slowed down and worked on my accent. I guess I needed more coffee!Finally, the writing part is probably the hardest. They expect you to produce a clear, well-organized, thoughtful, and error-free text. I am lucky to have been trained in French colleges in the old days, when students were expected to write properly in French, without mistakes (no typos as an excuse back then as we were using pen and paper), and where the emphasis was put on structuring your argumentation. We had classes that taught us to digest and summarize documents. This was quite tedious back then, but I am grateful we went through this. As a result, it taught us how to write in a moderately intelligent and articulate manner. This is a hard skill to acquire, and even more so without formal training. I am quite happy, while slightly annoyed, to have missed the perfect score on this one by just one point.Working hard for this last part is probably key to get a good TOEFL score -- I am pretty sure that's the section where the average is the lowest. But it is also a good skill to acquire for your studies and professional life. Nobody likes to teach or work with people who write like penguins.Good luck!

I feel that the reading and listening sections are pretty easy as compared to other sections. You can get 28 and above easily if you are average in reading and listening skills. Just give 2 - 3 practice tests you will get the feel of it. Speaking and writing sections are a little difficult. Just practice these sections with a focus on how to make notes especially for the speaking section. You can google  the tips and tricks required for speaking section (lot of YouTube videos out there!!). With some practice you will easily get 24 and above. Remember to speak clearly and cover the required topic as much as possible. I am an average student with average English skills and i got 111(r-29,l-29,s-25,w-28) just by some practice on note taking and 1-2 practice tests.