<p>Hello. I am from Afghanistan and I want some tips from you guys that how can I get good grades to get enrolled in schools like Phillips Exeter, Loomis Chaffe, Ghould Academy, Choate Rosemary Hall, etc. I must have at least 100 scores in TOEFL to be selected in these schools please guide me</p>
<p>There’s no shortcut to learning the language.</p>
<p>Can your family hire you a qualified English tutor (preferably a native speaker of English)? </p>
<p>I’d also recommend that you start reading books or news articles in English if you aren’t already, and watch American movies in English (with or without English subtitles). This passive exposure will improve your reading and listing comprehension and give you a sense of what “sounds right” in English. However, it’s no substitute for active writing and speaking practice. While you could get that for free on the internet, a qualified tutor will give you more focused and high-quality feedback than other ESL students on the internet. A tutor will also keep you on track by “forcing” you to practice regularly.</p>
<p>Well we cannot hire any native speaker of English because there is no one like that in our country and Yes I do read articles 
Thanks for the tips it would help me a lot.</p>
<p>I go to an English Medium School and my school grades are very good I am in 90%+ but the TOEFL seems to be very tough.</p>
<p>How about an online tutor who you can talk to via video chat? </p>
<p>I do think that you would benefit from the one-on-one attention. I can understand you just fine but there are lots of little grammar mistakes in your writing that a TOEFL grader would deduct points for. For example, you seem to be struggling with prepositions. You want to score 100 points on the TOEFL, enroll at Philips Exeter, be selected as an applicant by these boarding schools.</p>
<p>While you can work through worksheets on prepositions on your own, a tutor could go over your own writing with you and show you the mistakes that you are making. </p>
<p>Yes, an online tutor is a good idea but I don’t know where to find. And the schools I mentioned are offering scholarships for Afghan students. And as we are an Afghan family with limited financial resources that’s why I thought to apply here. </p>
<p>Thank you for clarifying that for me. Since you are applying to some of the most expensive boarding schools in the US, I was just assuming that your family is well-off. I was unaware that these boarding schools have such generous financial aid policies.</p>
<p>If you do want to give the online tutoring a try, just google ‘online ESL tutor’. There are websites where you can read profiles and reviews of dozens of tutors and decide if you want to work with any of them. </p>
<p>If money is tight, there are also online communities of ESL learners who try to help each other for free. The feedback you receive from another student who’s just learning the language would be less complete than the feedback you’d get from a qualified ESL teacher but it may be better than no feedback at all. If you want to try this route, google ‘ESL learning community’ or ‘ESL forum’ for suggestions. </p>
<p>Can you please tell me if you know someone who could teach me TOEFL iwill be thankful as I cannot pay the websites I visited their fee are too much</p>
<p>A rather cheap solution, in addition to the suggestions above (especially reading articles in English - read forums on many different topics, magazine websites…- and watching TV shows/films, preferably every day, to “get a feel for what sounds right”) is to buy a TOEFL preparation book. The Princeton Review’s book is one of the clearest for international students (about $25), plus a book of “Real TOEFL tests” from ETS (about $20). I don’t know if that cost would be too much. You can also look for free questions or samples on the internet. A few websites have free practice tests, for instance.
The TOEFL isn’t that hard but it requires knowing the format well and practicing.</p>