Thank you Michael! Your advice is very useful and practical! I'd do like you said.

@Barry 

 谢谢！你有什么问题呢？

Thank you for your comments and advice, Mai and Ted.

 @Mai 

That online reading website is really interesting and helpful! Thank you for sharing it with me! I had a lot fun doing those exercices!

@Ted

Would you please tell me more about the SRS system? I couldn't find the meaning of that term, thank you.

I've never thought about that. I think I pronounce italki like the way we pronounce iPhone.

eye-talkie :)

Hi, Stormpetrel and Camilo. Good luck with your tests.

My experience might be more practical for Stormpetrel since both of us are living in China.

First of all I enrolled in a TOFEL preperation course in a language school called 新东方. Stormpetrel, you will find a branch in your city too, but I think the Beijing HQ offers the best courses. Teachers there are much more experienced and skillful. Camilo, I don't know what the language teaching market in your country is like, but I suppose there must be some agencies or schools teaching TOFEL, am I right?

There is a podcast called 60-second science (aka SSS) offered by Scientific American. I found it very helpful for improving listening skills to do dictation with these audios. There is a language learning website called 沪江 in Chinese, which has a section called 英语听写 for this. You can see your score of every dictation you made, and it will be delightful to see your progress after you've done this for a while. Camilo, you can find this podcast on iTunes, but you might need to look for a dictation tool yourself, sorry about that.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to send me messages, I'll be glad to help. :)

I have a 98, and I'm going to take the test again in January. I hope this time I can get a score more than 100.

安杰你好，我认为“听起来跟母语者一样”完全没有问题。其实中国有很多这样的外国人，而他们无一例外都在中国待过很多年。所以要学好一门语言，还是要到那个国家去生活才行。