Free TOEIC Advice
On this page you will find a variety of free downloadable articles that will help you improve your TOEIC score as well as your general English ability. We will add new articles regularly, so please visit this page often.
One Effective Way to Learn Vocabulary
This article will teach you a simple but effective way to learn vocabulary better. This will help you improve your TOEIC score, and might also help people studying TOEFL or IELTS. You can either read part of the article below, or download a free PDF file with the whole article.
The Power of Collocations
This article will teach you about collocations, which are natural word pairs used by native speakers in both spoken and written English. Learning collocations will improve your vocabulary knowledge and also help people write or speak more effectively. You can either read part of the article below, or download a free PDF file with the whole article.
I got the result for the last TOEIC. It was 935!! I'm pretty happy with it and really appreciate your help. Thank you very much.
 Yoko, Japan
One Effective Way to Learn Vocabulary
This article is copyright Higher Score, 2008. It may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without permission.
Introduction
For most English tests, like TOEIC, TOEFL or IELTS, it is helpful to have a good vocabulary. This can make every part of the test easier, which will probably increase your score. However, most students do not know how to study vocabulary well. This short article will suggest one way to do that: make connections between words. By doing this you will not only learn those words more easily, but also remember them for longer.
The human brain is very good at making connections between things, and very good at remembering those connections. The human brain is not so good at remembering isolated pieces of information. So, if you try to learn new vocabulary by connecting a new word with other words that you already know, you will probably remember it easily and well. If, on the other hand, you try to learn new words individually, you may find it hard to remember them. In a test situation, this will probably reduce your score.
I received the result of TOEIC. Listening 480, Reading 405, Total 885. I am happy that I can go back to Japan with this score. I like your TOEIC class. I learned a lot, especially from "morning challenge". Even though it is for TOEIC score, I believe what I learned in the class will help my English improvement. Thank you very much.
 Kaori, Japan
The Power of Collocations
This article is copyright Higher Score, 2008. It may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without permission.
Introduction
Having a large vocabulary is a highly effective way to improve your TOEIC, TOEFL and IELTS score, as well as your overall English ability. However, memorizing many new words is not only boring and difficult, but often also time-consuming. An alternative approach is to combine learning some new words with learning to use the vocabulary you already know more easily, effectively and naturally. Learning collocations is a great way to do this.
What are collocations? Basically, collocations —also known as ‘word combinations’ — are a pair or group of words that are often used together by native speakers in the same sentence or phrase. Collocations are often combinations like verb + noun or adjective + noun. Some common examples of collocations are ‘catch a cold’, ‘catch a bus’ and ‘catch something that somebody said’. You can see that all of these examples use the same verb, ‘catch’ but a different object (noun).