When scores came back: .
Marco hugged her. “Now you’re a genius.” genius toefl
He read it slowly, then said, “Lena, this is brilliant. But you’d get a 2 out of 5.” When scores came back:
“Because the TOEFL integrated writing task doesn’t want your opinion. It doesn’t want synthesis or quotes from Aristotle. It wants one thing: How the lecture challenges the reading . That’s it. No agreement, no personal view, no ‘both sides.’ Just: point by point, how does the professor disagree with the text? You gave them a philosophy paper. They wanted a police report.” But you’d get a 2 out of 5
“It’s just English,” she told her friend Marco. “I’ve read Hamlet . I know grammar rules. How hard can it be?”
The reading said: “Universities should eliminate liberal arts requirements to focus on job-specific skills.”