Will TS#18

    I met with Marina on 11/25. I had hoped to make this post sooner, but had some family issues come up, so my memory is a little hazy as I write it now. Usually we do some small talk at the beginning, but I don’t quite remember what we talked about. I should’ve written it down. I do know from my notes, that we talked more about her TOEFL exam because she had received all her final grades for it. She was already expecting that the reading section would be her worst score and it officially was. She earned a score of 12 out of 30 points, which she was not happy about at all. I looked around online and found a video with a bunch of tips for the TOEFL reading exam. We watched through the whole thing together and anytime she was confused about something, I paused the video and asked her to take note of her question. At the end, we went over all her questions and I tried to clear up any confusion. The video had a lot of helpful info, it was from TST Prep on youtube. A lot of their videos require some kind of payment to get the full benefit, but this one was pretty much full of helpful tips without needing to pay for anything. 

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