Cramming on my English Test

Twelve days from now I will be into a very tough hurdle of passing the TOEFL iBT. Its hard to believe that I didn't even prepared for this and now I'm thinking that I just threw away the money I paid to register for the test. For the benefit of those who doesn't what this test is all about let me give you a brief introduction about it.

TOEFL-iBT stands for TEST ON ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE-internet Based Test. It has four sections: Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing. I've read terrible stories of previous test-takers posted in a forum. Some of them even took it six consecutive times to get a satisfactory grade. This test is very important for us Pharmacist, pursuing a Licensure in  the United States.  The NABP set a standard score we should get in order to be issued a FPGEC Certificate.

My advice to anyone who wish to take this test for their Profession is to devote some time to study and practice on it. I'm sure some of you might say that it would be an easy exam because we've learn our english since we entered kindergarten. However, the test is about how well we use the language in an every day campus and off-campus life. I believe most of us Filipinos can understand English and the dilemma will only be when its time for us to speak our thoughts, since we rarely use it in our day to day conversion.