TOEFL Fees for Nonresident English spokesperson

outshine the TOEFL is a vital walk for specially nonresident English spokesperson on their mode to learning in the USA and Canada.  A fine score can indicate entrance to a scholar program, or even pleasing an assistantship to help face the operating cost of graduate school. The company that offersTOEFL, the Educational Testing Service, suggest little support to those students who cannot pay for the fee of the exam. There is, yet, some approach to try and find funding. Read on to find out more.

1. Be relevant for the fee cutback service accessible by the Educational Testing Service. This is a one time voucher that incises the Price of the TOEFL about in half. It is on hand to non-native spokesman of English who are attending high school in the United States. Applications can be download from ETS's website, and have part that should be done by equally the student and her guidance counselor.

2. Check with independent cultural organizations to see if they offer vouchers. These groups offer aid to both those who live in the United States and those who are just looking to study there. Many such organizations representing different countries exist, and offer aid based on their own set of criteria. Usually, they offer a limitednumber to students who have the greatest need and/or have demonstrated high achievement.

3. Inquire at your own school about fee assistance. Many institutions offer some kind of aid to those who need help applying to universities.


4. Apply for a Fulbright scholarship. Should you be nominated, the Fulbright Commission will bear the costs of the exam. 

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CF India Portal:IELTS Speaking Test in Australia-jan 2013

Speaking test

Interview

- What is your full name?
- Where are you from?
- Do you study or work?
- What is your major?
- Do you like big or small bags?
- What are you looking for when buying a bag?
- Do you use different bags on different occasions?

Cue Card

Talk about a house or an apartment that you have visited and liked the most. Please say

- Where is it?
- How did you get there and with whom?
- What did you like about it?

Discussion

- What do the houses in your country look like?
- Do people prefer big or small houses?
- What do the old people like?
- Would you like to take part in designing your house?
- Do people like to design their own houses in your country?
- Why do people like to design their own houses?

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TOEFL Preparation

TOEFL  Preparation & Information

I just completed my TOEFL registration—but how do I prep for my test? Don’t panic; We can point you toward a variety of helpful resources for TOEFL preparation.

First things first: Before you start your TOEFL preparation, be sure to understand what the basic goals of the TOEFL are. The TOEFL test stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language. It’s administered worldwide by the U.S.-based company ETS (Educational Testing Service). The TOEFL is designed to help schools, colleges, and universities accurately gauge your ESL (English as a second language) skills in terms of four categories:

·         Reading

·         Listening

·         Speaking (iBT only)

·         Writing

Referenced above, the iBT (Internet-based test) is the newest and most prevalent version of the TOEFL test. The innovative iBT test is different from the other versions (computer-based “CBT” and paper-based “PBT”) because it incorporates a speaking section into the exam. The speaking section centers on a phone call that lasts approximately 20 minutes. The test begins with reading and listening, and then breaks for ten minutes before the speaking and writing portions. To help with your TOEFL preparation, let’s go into all of the sections of the test in detail right now:

·         Reading
In this section, you read a passage and are then asked to answer multiple-choice questions about the passage.

·         Listening
In this section, you listen to a conversation between two people, and also to a lecture, and then answer multiple-choice questions about each segment.

·         Speaking (iBT only)
In this verbal skills portion, you will listen to brief lectures/passages and also answer three questions. Some questions are based on your own personal experiences, while others refer to the lecture you listened to.

·         Writing
This section requires you to write about the relationship between a lecture that you listen to and then a passage that you read. Answers tend to be 150–225 words long.

CF India Portal: CLAT 2013 to be held on 12 May 2013

CLAT 2013. It is estimated that around thirty thousand kids will compete to book their seat in any of the top Law Schools of this country. And it will take just 2 hours on the D-Day to decide the entire rank list. If you think you can make it through if you're coached well for more than a year, you're wrong! There is no dispute over the fact that CLAT tests your general awareness and reasoning abilities. But, albeit all the grooming, it boils down to just two epoch-making keywords. Speed and Accuracy. The most feasible way of ameliorating these

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) – 2013 for admission to under-graduate and post-graduate programmes offered by member National Law Universities is scheduled to take place on Sunday, i.e. 12th May 2013, from 03:00 p.m. to 05:00 p.m. The question paper pattern of CLAT 2013 is as below.

CLAT 2013 for undergraduate course

Total Marks	200
Total number of multiple-choice questions of one mark each	200
Duration of examination	Two Hours
Subject areas with weightage:
English including Comprehension	40 Marks
General Knowledge/ Current Affairs	50 Marks
Elementary Mathematics (Numerical Ability)	20 Marks
Legal Aptitude	50 Marks
Logical Reasoning	40 Marks

CLAT 2013 for postgraduate course

Total Marks	150
Duration of examination	Two Hours
Long Essay Type Descriptive Questions (Covering Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence)	100 Marks (4 questions of 25 marks each)
Multiple-Choice Questions (Covering all compulsory law subjects prescribed by the BCI for the Under-Graduate Course except Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence)	50 Marks (50 questions of 1 mark each)

* 1/4th mark will be deducted for each wrong answer

Important dates for CLAT 2013

1.	Publication of Advertisement	a. 1st January 2013 (Tuesday) b. Subsequently at regular intervals
2.	Date of Commencement of Sale of Application Forms (Specified Branches of SBI & CLAT-2013 Member NLUs)	15th January 2013 (Tuesday)
3.	Last Date for submission of filled-in Application Forms	30th March 2013 (Saturday) by 5:00 p.m.
4.	Dispatch of Admit Cards/Hall Tickets	Up to 13th April 2013 (Saturday)
5.	Date of Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) – 2013	12th May 2013 (Sunday)
6.	Date of Declaration of Results	31st May 2013 (Friday)
7.	Issue of First Provisional Allotment List along with Waiting List	2nd June 2013 (Sunday)
8.	Last Date for Fee-deposit with CLAT Office by the candidates of the First Provisional Allotment List and Waiting List to reserve their seats in respective Universities	7th June 2013 (Friday) by 4:00 p.m.
9.	Last Date for exercising the option to remain with and take admission in  the allotted University	7th June 2013 (Friday) by 4:00 p.m.
10.	Publication of Actual Allotment List of the candidates allotted to various Universities against First Provisional Allotment List	10th June 2013 (Monday)
11.	Issue of Second Provisional Allotment List	11th June 2013 (Tuesday)
12.	Last Date for exercising the option to remain with and take admission in  the allotted University	13th June 2013 (Thursday) by 4:00 p.m.
13.	Publication of Actual Allotment List of candidates allotted  to various Universities against the Second Provisional Allotment List	15th June 2013 (Saturday)
14.	Issue of Third Provisional Allotment List	16th June 2013 (Sunday)
15.	Last Date for exercising the option to remain with and take admission in  the allotted University	18th  June 2013 (Tuesday) by 4:00 p.m.
16.	Publication of Actual Allotment List of candidates allotted to various Universities against the Third Provisional Allotment List	19th June 2013 (Wednesday)
17.	Issue of Fourth Provisional Allotment List along with Waiting List, if any	20th June 2013 (Thursday)
18.	Completion of admission formalities at University level by submitting required certificates/documents and the balance amount of fees by candidates who would have deposited fees against 1st, 2nd and 3rd Provisional Allotment List	24 – 27th June 2013 (Monday – Thursday)
19.	Last Date for Withdrawal of Candidature for Admission from CLAT Office	27th June 2013 (Thursday) by 4:00 p.m.
20.	Last Date for Fee-deposit with CLAT Office by the candidates of Fourth Allotment List and Waiting List, if any, to reserve their seats in respective Universities	27th June 2013 (Thursday) by 4:00 p.m.
21.	Last Date for exercising the option to remain with and take admission in  the allotted University	27th June 2013 (Thursday) by 4:00 p.m.
22.	Submission of Detail Report by Member NLUs to the CLAT Convener regarding the vacancies, if any, caused due to the non-reporting of candidates for completing the admission formalities	28th June 2012 (Friday)
23.	Publication of Actual List of candidates allotted to various Universities against the Fourth Provisional Allotment List	29th June 2013 (Saturday)
24.	Closure of Admission Process by CLAT Office	29th June 2013 (Saturday)
25.	Completion of Admission Formalities at the  University level by submitting required certificates/documents and the balance amount of fees by candidates who would have	5 – 6th July 2013

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CF India Portal: All about CMAT 2013

After CAT 2012 and XAT 2013, the next MBA entrance test candidates are looking at is the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) February 2013. Conducted by the AICTE, this computer-based test will take place in a window of five days – from February 21 to 25. The results of CMAT February 2013 will be declared on March 13, 2013.

 This article shares with candidates basic features, such as patterns of the test and scoring & ranking process, of CMAT February 2013Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is held by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for admission to Post graduate programmes in various AICTE approved Management Colleges and Institutes. CMATis generally held two times in a year in objective mode with Multiple Choice Questions.

The test paper of CMAT will comprise four sections including Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension and General Awareness. There will be 25 questions in each section and time allotted to solve the test paper is 180 minutes. There is a provision of negative marking too and one-fourth mark will be deducted for each incorrect answers. One of the major wishes of the MBA aspirants is to crack CMAT and for that they leave no stone unturned.

Be Selective: Since just few days are left for the examination, you must be very selective in preparing the topics. Don’t try to even touch those topics which you are not sure of completing within the short time span. Prefer those chapters that seems important from the examination point of view and can easily be covered within short duration.

·  Time Management: Time management is the important aspect in the preparation of examination. Allot feasible time to each and every topic that you choose to cover for the examination and try to finish off the assigned topic within the stipulated time span.

·     Prepare Notes: While studying make brief notes of formulae, facts and other significant points covering the topic or chapters. It will be useful during the revision as you will have lack of time to revise the whole

·         syllabus and these notes will help you remind all the relevant points.

·    Read Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals etc: Keep yourself abreast with current affairs by reading newspapers, current affairs journals and news magazines. It will enable you to precisely answer the questions pertaining to General Awareness section. More over, it will also help you to improve language and comprehension which is the second section of the CMAT February 2013.

·      Take Mock Tests: Practising sample papers, previous years’ papers are necessary to crack the examination. This will acquaint you with the type of questions that will be set in the test papers by the examiner. Moreover, these papers enable you to make out your faults and give opportunity to correct them so that these can’t be repeated in the examination. Take and evaluate mock tests keeping in mind the fact of negative marking in the examination.

·       Proper Rest and Healthy Diet: Study, study and study theory will not help you to crack the examination. Healthy diet and right amount of sleep (at least 8 hours) along with study will give good results.

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CF India Portal: Concise View on Competitive Examination

Competitive Exams are the central exams where lakhs of students and also individual people participate every year. Competitive Exams in India is proposed for recruiting the best fitted candidates for a right job and generally held for public sector organization. The major hope of this competitive examination is to get the best and merit candidates from each society in India.

Merit is not the pattern in the selection process. The reservation policy looks for bringing people from different section of the society. Every year lakhs of youthful Indians apply for the Civil Services Examinations to acquire their dream jobs in different public sectors and each of the examinations has different patterns.

Below are some of the common competitive exams in India

o    CAT(Common Admission Test)

o    GATE(Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)

o    GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)

o    GRE(Graduate Record Examination)

o    NET(National Eligibility Test)

o    SAT(Scholastic Aptitude Test)

o    TOEFL(Test of English as a Foreign Language)

For Union Public Service Commissions

o    Civil Services IAS Exam

o    Combine Defense Services Exams

o    Combined Medical Services Exams

o    Engineering Services Exam

o    Indian Forest Service Exam

o    National Defense Academy Exam

For Staff Selection Commission

o    Assistants Grade Exam

o    Clerk’s Grade Exam

o    Divisional Accountant Exam

o    SSC Combined Matric Preliminary Exams

o    Stenographers Exam

For Defense

o    IAF Airman Exams

o    Indian Navy Artificer Apprentices Exam

o    Indian Army Soldiers Clerks Exam

o    Indian Army Soldiers General Duty Exam

o    Indian Navy Sailors Matric Entry Recruitment Exam.

o    Indian Army Soldiers MER Exam

Eligibility and Reservation Seats for Competitive Examinations

Eligibility criteria and examination time vary from one job sectors to another. Reservation criteria for competitive examination in India are as follow:

o    8% seats are reserved for ST (Schedule Tribes) candidates

o    15% seats are reserved for SC (Schedule Caste) candidates

o    27% seats are reserved for OBC (Other Backward Classes) candidates.

Supreme Court has passed a rule that number of reserved seats should not exceed more than 50% of the total number of seats in the competitive exams. Competitive exams in India has played a significant role in national union by bringing candidates from different societies under one roof to applied for the same post/job.

Competitive exams in India are the starting point to improve the social justice. For the allotted seat candidates from all over the country participate and apply the chance provided.

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