Michael Goodine reviewed McGraw-Hills TOEFL by Tim Collins
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2 stars
Not very good. I actually had high hopes for this one, since McGraw-Hill has the licence to publish official TOEFL materials (they publish the Official Guide and the two iBT Tests books). However, it doesn’t look like they have access to insider information or notes about test design from ETS. Most of the sample questions in the book are inaccurate. This includes major problems like integrated writing questions where the reading has just two paragraphs, and minor problems like “campus announcement” speaking questions where the opinionated student gives three reasons for their position. Or reading questions where you have to search through the whole article to find the article. For these reasons I don’t recommend the book to anyone. Note, meanwhile, that this book was published before the TOEFL was changed (August, 2019) so it is also dated in a general sense.