78-2. Do you agree or disagree that students will learn more when they havediscussions, why?

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78-2. Do you agree or disagree that students will learn more when they have
discussions, why?

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Hello. I would like to know how much attention ETS pays to minor mistakes in speach and what is minor mistakes for ETS. My hesitation is caused by fear of making mistakes such us switching times or misused of a word.
Thank you.
Eugene.

There is a formula for high marks:

High marks = fluency + good and more content.

if you have one 'ehn' in the speaking or one grammar mistake, ETS may ignore them. But once the mistakes are continuing, the marks will be down significantly. So we ask users first of all talk fluently.

Once you can talk fluently, the content is not a big issue which is much easier to train.

Also good marks are compared to other users. For example, if you want 26 in speaking, it means you will need to talk better than 90% of other users. If you have minor errors while others don't have, other users will get better marks.

To remove hesitations, these are our suggestions:

Need more practicing on listening and speaking. Yes, need to practice listening too:

1. Do more intensive listening:
http://www.testbig.com/toefl-basic-listening-practice
http://www.testbig.com/toefl-intermediate-listening-practice
http://www.testbig.com/toefl-advanced-listening-practice

2. Do more extensive listening, like:
Listen to radios like VOA, BBC, Watch TVs like CNN

3. Find a speaking partner and talk more