My name is Kseniya L., I’m almost 40 years old. In order to practice pharmacy in the USA, I needed speaking score of 26+ on the TOEFL test. At the beginning I haven’t even realised how serious my struggle to earn my target scores would be. I simply borrowed some TOEFL preparation textbook from a public library …
Meet Liang, our student from China who dreamed of being accepted to Harvard. Liang was struggling with the speaking section of the TOEFL trying to get a 24. Read her unedited story to learn how she managed to score 110 with 27 on Speaking and made her dream come true: “I’m a dental school student from China, and currently am a …
Read an amazing story of Mizuha who changed from S17 to S23 after a month of intensive preparation. In her first attempt she scored 96 (R27, L28, S17, W24) and then decided to commit to Jaime Miller’s program. Her second attempt was incredibly successful with the total score of 106 (R29, L29, S23, W25). Her …
Pegah is a Physical Therapist and she needed to have a high TOEFL score to be qualified to work in America. For her, like for many others, it was a long struggle with the TOEFL speaking section. A year ago, she bought Jaime Miller’s Advanced Speaking Guide and… asked for a refund the same day. …
Below is another real-life story from Olek, a pharmacist who passed TOEFL iBT with final scores of 107 (R28 L28 S27 W24) in early September, 2019. This post was prepared from a spoken interview between Olek and Jaime Miller. It has been lightly edited. These are his words. “Before coming to the US, I was …
Meet my student, Maria from the Philippines who wants to become a licensed nurse in America. She has recently taken her first TOEFL and scored with an impressive S26 and W27! How did she do this? Maria practiced with all of my self-study programs and, in addition to that, with 6 other TOEFL preparation books …
A nurse from the Philippines got S26/W27 on the first pass Read More »
Last week, I got an email from one of my students. “H” is from South Korea. He is shy so he didn’t want me to use his full name. 🙂 In June, he got news that he scored 107 on TOEFL (Reading 27 Listening 29 Speaking 23 Writing 28). H needed to score at least …
A TESOL Masters candidate from South Korea got S23 (total 107)! Read More »
Na-Yoon Kim is from a small town near Seoul, South Korea. Na-Yoon was determined to improve her score and she worked relentlessly for many months. She managed to stay on top of her regular homework for high school and studied TOEFL all summer with me and a private TOEFL course. This is her story. [*unedited*] …
A high school student from South Korea scored 101 Read More »
Here’s another “old” success story that shows just how long I’ve been doing this! 😂 Valeriya B. was an ambitious woman who works in the energy sector. She successfully applied (and was accepted!) to Columbia for her MBA. Here is her story. [unedited] “I started to prepare for TOEFL in December 2012. In March 2013 …
A Business Development Director from Moscow got 112. Read More »
“I’m so happy and shocked! TOEFL speaking was the hardest part for me (my first speaking score was 23) and I thought I wouldn’t be able to get the score that I wanted because I had no idea where to start and what to do to improve. My latest speaking score is 27! Jaime’s advice …
A Nurse from the Philippines got a 27 on speaking! Read More »
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