what is considered to be a good TOEFL score to gain easy admission in the universities?
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Most of the universities require at least 212 on a computer based test.\nBetter ones ask for atleast 250.\nSome also consider a score of 200.\nThe importance of TOEFL is decided by the program of your choice. If you are applying to a English language program then certainly TOEFL score plays an important part.\nPlease keep in mind that TOEFL is not the only deciding factor for an admission decision.However it allows your application to pass the initial screening.\n\nYou will appreciate this better if you know as to how your application is processed.\n\nADMISSION PROCESS\n \nAdmission process is not a mathematical formula where you input certain things and the output is a forgone conclusion.\nWhen we advice that certain norms should be observed while applying it only implies that from experience we have observed that the probability of admission increases if one adheres to them.\n \nAdmission process involves:\n \n1. Certain Objective Factors\n2. And some Subjective Ones\n3. Lastly university's admission environment  at the time of your applying.\n \nThe objective ones are your GPA,GRE/SAT and TOEFL scores.To this I will also add your selection of the university or program compatible to  your credentials.\nThe subjective factors are SOP, recommendations.\nBoth of the above are explained in detail in my earlier mails i this forum.\n \nThe 3rd factor of Univs admission environment is explained here.This can be understood by citing some examples.\nThere are times when a student with top class credentials is rejected by a university like Kent State University but he is accepted by NCSU or CMU.Why?This can be understood if you view this from each university's perspective.\nWhat does a university take in consideration while deciding about an application?\nNow again there are factors which are\n \nA.Apparent\nB.Hidden Agenda\n \nA. The Apparent Factors are 1 and 2 stated above and these are the ones which the university states when asked.The web sites of the universities will tell you what minimum GPA or GRE or TOEFL scores they need. They will also tell you about the SOP and Recos but will never tell about their hidden agenda.\n \nB. What is the Hidden Agenda? \nUniversities will like to have a diversified community they will never like to have all or majority of students from the same geographical region or economical standing.\nA university may be cash strap and may have decided to cut down on recruitment of students.\nThere may not be a professor available or willing to take you under him.This means either your type of research is not being carried out or the professor who is conducting it is not accepting  additional students. \nLastly what is the competition saying? If there are students having a better match with the universities requirements then your candidature shall be overlooked.This competitive position is not static so it will change each year.You may be rejected one year but may be offered admission next year.\n \nThus you will see that admission process like any thing in life is neither a science so that it be governed by a mathematical formula nor it is an art.I feel that it is an art of using science to help you.\n \nGood Luck\nNBS
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Your scores show you are a competent student.\nFind what you want at  http://www.entrytest.com or http://www.admissionglobal.com   or http://www.catzone.org
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Colleges look at more than the SAT or ACT score. They will also want to look at your gpa and if you've taken college prep classes in high school. The ACT composite is what many colleges with use. And an 18 isn't great, but if you have an acceptable gpa you can still get into college. Your math score indicates that you can thrive in the English language environment, and college admissions officers will note that.\n\nI think you should talk to your counselor about taking the TOEFL that's the SAT when English is not your native language. Many colleges will prefer that for students who were not born English language speakers.\n\nGood luck!
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TOEFL, is recognized a lot more than the other exam.\nI am an independent college counselor and work with students in the Southern California area. \nE-mail me at admissioncounseling@yahoo.com \nIf you have specific questions.
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I have answered many similar questions but to be brief, IELTS tests on the English worldwide with less linguistic bias than TOEFL, provincially focused on North American English. IELTS comes in academic and professional flavours.\n\nIt is difficult to tell which exam is easier (for individual prospective candidates :I ), but use the differences as explained above and answers to other similar questions to your advantage.
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depends on your level of english. did u pass ur toefl yet?\nif ur toefl scores are higher than 300 on old CBT (without pronounciation check.) then u should be alright.
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The TOEFL website has practice tests and tips to help you prepare for it.  I also hear that the Kaplan TOEFL iBT book is really great to help prepare.
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The good news:  Your grades and an 800 in math on the SATs are impressive and some very good schools in the US will want you.\n\nThe bad news -- if you have a 1920 on the SATs, then you took the three part SAT exam and averaged 560 on the other two parts.  That won't cut it at the very top schools.  The average student accepted at Ivy League schools, Duke, Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, MIT and Cal Tech has you beat by 200 to 300 points.  Many might think that these schools may discount your verbal scores since you are a foreign student.  But the fact is that the top schools get lots of applications from Asian students with nearly perfect SAT scores and can't take all of them.\n\nI think that you will get into a very good school.  I think that it is a stretch to get into the schools at the very top -- but it is not impossible.  Your chances will be improved if you indicate that you want to study mathematics or a science.  They will also improve if you are able to take the SAT again and bring up your verbal scores.
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You be the judge, I'm Mexican I have never taken English lessons (only in high school but only the usual stuff, my pencil is red, my house is green...) and I scored 610 points in TOEFL.\nI'm certain that TOEFL is an excellent tool to measure a person's capacity to speak English.
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The IELTS strikes me as a very accurate exam (much more so than the TOEFL)--which is to say that to get a good band you need to actually have good English skills.\n\nRead and write in English as much as you can. Watch TV in English if possible, find a native speaker to converse with (perhaps in exchange for your language or some service or money).\n\nAnd don't use a singular common non-count noun without an article (or possessive). You want "a good band" not "good band."
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A good score on GMAT is the score that will get the admission into the desired university. For example,\nIf someone has 650 on GMAT (one can say it is a good score)  but it is less kiley to get into one of the top 5 business schools in US so then it is not good enogh for those schools.\n\nMedian GMAT score based on recent ~600K GMAT takers is 529.
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Typically, you should have 3 overall scores. Each of these scores is out of 800, and the average is (or probably should be) in the 500 range.\n\nSo you add the three together to get your overall SAT score.\n\nI took the SAT in April of 2001, so I had the old one.\n\nMath: 560\nVerbal: 560\n\nOverall: 1120 (I did better on the GRE)\n\nYour should say:\n\nMath: x\nVerbal: y\nWriting: z\n\nSo it's x+y+z\n\nThe significance of the scores depends on the selectivity and the geographic location of the undergraduate schools you're applying to.
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Excellent job.  Try for all universities which you have an interest in.  Your SAT scores, are not the only criteria.  Hopefully, you can show extra curricular actions, and perhaps outside job experience, volunteer work etc.. and a desire for achievement!  Good luck
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There is no university on US or in the world that will evaluate you only by your GRE score, this is rather impossible. I have seen people with 1520 GRE and 293 TOEFL not being accepted on MIT and others with 1200 and 230 being accepted. The letters of recomendation and your academic honors and publications are MUTCH MORE important. The GRE and TOEFL scores works for a competitive basis, if you get a too low score they are not even going to review your application. But if you get high scores they´ll probably review, but with no STRONG letter of reccomendations, honors or publications at undergraduate work they will probably disconsider you as a candidate. If you have a low GPA this is not the end of the world, since you complete the other requirements above average. Good luck.
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Well if the entry exam has a prerequisite for SAT results you need the score.Obviously GPA and personal traits are important.
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you need the TOEFL and the SAT and possibly the ACT (for southern schools) to study in the US. SAT is no use for any other country, it's an american thing.\n\nAfter you got a good score on the SAT, you need to send that with your high-school grades + other stuff like essays and whatnot to the Univs of your choice. If they accept you, they will give you a form that will allow you to go apply for a student visa.\n\nBut remember - University is ridiculously expensive in the States. In your country you barely pay anything, in the cheapest univs of USA you have to pay about 10,000 US$ per year. Think about that.
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I find the Longman books good, but you have to buy a lot of them--a book and then an answer book and then the CDs and then this and that--I inderstand it's even worse for the IBT than it was for previous TOEFL types. But they're very thorough and cover "life" as well as the TOEFL.\n\nFor the TOEFL alone, I recommend the Princeton Review book. You could combine that with a more general ESL book--I recommend The Advanced Grammar Book (sorry, don't have the authors' names), but judging by the errors in your question, it may be above your level. (THE best course/"for both life" could be better expressed/you TAKE a test rather than "get" one) Of course, it's just one question and doesn't really tell me much about your English proficiency.