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Q: I’m a student from Nigeria, speaking English as my mother language. Do I need to present the TOEFL scores to attend a US university?
A: A US university common policy on TOEFL states that almost, if not, all of
international students must present their acceptable TOEFL scores (which certainly vary form an institution to an institution) no matter what languages are their mediums of instruction or what languages are their mother
tongues. However, a waive of TOEFL may be given to (1) an international student from the following countries: Canada, UK, South Africa, Australian and New Zealand. (2) a student who has received a degree from the
mentioned countries (including US) within the past two years before entering classes.
Q: Can you please present a lesser level of difficulty questions?
A: It’s hard to say that easier questions from the
current questions can help you. My suggestion is that a consistent practice for quite some time certainly improves your scores. Further, the paper and pencil TOEFL format will be phrased out shortly (if I’m not wrong, such
currently exists in China only.), you can never shoot your score with persistent “easy level” questions. I guess you all are well aware of the terminology of the test. Still, I strongly advise that you bring us an attention of
anything we can help.
Q: I’m going to sit for GMAT in a couple of weeks. Just a very quick and concise answer. What’s the difference between fewer and less?
A: First of all, if you face such a kind of question, you’re either reaching a very very high score question (that is, you have done extremely well in the verbal section so be
relaxed) OR experiencing a research question. That’s the best you will know in either case. Like the usage of a few and a litter, that of fewer and less has quite a similar rule.
Fewer is used with a countable noun, i.e., books, people etc.
Less is used with an uncountable noun, i.e., water, air etc.
Ex
The planet Earth has a lot fewer satellites than Jupiter does.
The planet Earth contains much less mass than the Sun does.
Less gets involved with a countable noun only when fractions, percents, or other numbers are involved.
Ex Less than one percent of those who have taken GMAT score more than 770.
Finally, notice the distinction of the following two sentences:
Fewer than 5 countries
had official diplomatic relationships with the Taliban government.
The number of countries that had official diplomatic relationships with the Taliban government was less than 5.
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