1. • Overall test
strategies
• Listening strategies
• Reading strategies
• Study strategies
Instructor: Nguyen Thi Hao

2. Overall test strategies
1. Timing
• Plan your time carefully
• Don’t spend too much time on
the instructions
2. Answering
• Don’t leave any questions
unanswered
• Use the order of the questions
as a guide
• Be aware of distracters

3. Listening strategies
1. Answer the questions as quickly
as you can
2. Prepare for the next questions.
+ Part I: Look at the pictures and answer
some questions (who, what, where,
how) before listening
+ Part II &IV: Read the questions before
listening

4. Reading strategies
1. Check the time regularly
2. Read the questions first
3. Answer the easy questions first,
more difficult one later

5. Study strategies
1. Build your vocabulary & grammar
• keep a vocabulary notebook of all the
words & structures with examples
• use the learnt words & structures
whenever appropriate
• Read intensively & extensively
2. Practice the TOEIC test regularly
within time restriction.
3. Revise what you have learnt