SUCCESS STORIES

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Congratulations to Jong Hyun Park. He first took the TWE in May and received an essay score of 3.5. He started work with Kent, June 20th and in July scored a 5.0 on the TWE essay, with an overall score of 263. This shows how the hard work and dedication he put in paid off. The only thing that kept him from having a much higher overall score is at that time Kent did not know how well the listening comprehension website would help on this portion of the TWE. -- Jong Hyun Park [[email protected]]

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I took the TOEFL on the 22nd of June and today I received the score. With your help, I received a 5.5 on the TWE, with an verall TOEFL score of 253. Thank you for your guidance and have a nice day! -- Byun, Kwang-gun [[email protected]]

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Today, I got my second score through the ETS scoring service.

My score is
LC : 25
SW : 28 (Writing score is 5.5)
RC : 27
Total : 267.

Even though it is not perfect scores, it's great to me. I am very satisfied with my score including the writing score. I think this TOEFL score is suitable to apply to my target graduate schools, so I would like to stop studying for the TOEFL. [Yes, your score is great. Anything over 260 is considered to be good enough to enter most universities. I am very proud of you for all the hard work you have put in. The Air Force ought to reward you and make you by promoting you and paying for your college, so you might become a career officer, although you probably are not interested in that.]

From now on, I would like to enhance my overall English writing ability. Besides it, I should take the GRE in October and the TSE in September. I think that speaking ability is closely related to writing ability, so I would like to prepare for the TSE with you. [Yes, you are correct, speaking and writing go hand-in-hand. They both require you to think only in English, just like listening does. I would suggest that you increase your daily listening time, as that was the lowest score. I will also send you a couple of websites that will help with reading comprehension, which will help with the GRE. I would suggest that you read these outloud, which is going to help you become comfortable speaking in English.]

I will write many things about me like a daily diary, etc. and I would like to receive your assignments which you think are helpful to enhance my writing ability.

Teacher: Kent E. Wagner
Student: Hong, Soon-hyeok[[email protected]]


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I have just called the ETS score report service. When I heard my score, I doubted my ears. The essay rating is 5.5! Sectional scores are 24, 28, and 30 in LC, SW, and RC, respectively. The overall score is 273, which would be from 640 to 643 in the old scoring system. Actually, I did not think I would receive such a high essay score. Although I think that the examples were treated in some detail, I do not think that I argued nicely, or made a great conclusion paragraph. Instead, one of my strategies at that time was not to repeat the same words or structures, that is, to demonstrate as many various structures as possible. I thought that was the only choice for me to appeal to the scorers. That was because I did not think I could do a very good job of organizing the essay at the paragraph level with the given topic which required me to discuss the qualities of a good parent. So, looking back on the essay, I suppose that the scorers rated high the structure and word level organization. I think your constant assistance and encouragement was crucial to this unexpectedly high score. This tutoring service was really helpful. -- Seo Mun-Kyo [[email protected]]

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This is from Juhyoung Lee [[email protected]].

My fixed score is 277
- LC 26
- SC+TWE 27 ( TWE : 5.0 )
- RC 30

I believe this score is high enough to apply for Top MBA schools. ( The average TOEFL score of international students admitted to Wharton Schools or MIT is about 270 ) Your teaching was very helpful in getting a high score. Thank you very much!!!



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We would like to congratulate Youngone Suh for her perfect 6.0 on the essay portion of a recent TWE. This is also a first for Kent, who has had many students score a 5.5. Youngone is a fifteen year old, and now sets a goal for everyone to aim for with her perfect 6.0

Congratulations Youngone [[email protected]]



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Munkyo Seo who has been Jack's student since the end of July has just had his first article written in English accepted for publication in Microwave Journal. The article goes to print in February, 2002. Munkyo Seo has put in a lot of time and hard work to get to this point and he is currently working on another article for publication. --- Munkyo Seo [[email protected]]



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Congratulations are in order for Moon Heum who recieved a 5.5 on his essay during the last TOEFL. He has work hard with Jack for several months to achieve this score.---Cho, Moon Heum [[email protected]]

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Congratulations go out to Mark Choi for his perfect 6.0 on the TWE. He put in a lot of time and effort to get his writing to this level and should be congratulated.--- Mark Choi [[email protected]]

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Congratualtions to Patrick, who is French. He scored a 273 on the TOEFL on February 8, 2002, after working very hard with Jack.---Patrick Riviere [[email protected]]

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Congratulations to Eun Gyu Lee-"Alice Lee" [[email protected]] for scoring a perfect 6.0 on the TWE. In addition she obtained a great 270 overall score.

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Congratulations are in order for Kyoorim[[email protected]] who recently scored a 277 on the TOEFL, with a 5.5 score on the essay. These scores show that hard work pays off.

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