TOEFL Speaking Q3 & Q4 Strategy
📌 Questions 3 and 4 are both integrated questions involving a professor's lecture, requiring more than simple repetition.
👩‍🏫 Avoid phrases like "The professor explains" or "The professor illustrates" unless the lecture content is specifically about the professor's life or family/friends mentioned in the context.
📈 To achieve an advanced score (e.g., 26 on TOEFL iBT speaking), you must develop the topic and progress the idea, not just copy the information provided.

Authority of Knowledge & Idea Progression
🗣️ For an advanced score, you must act as the authority of knowledge; the information should come from you, not be hidden behind attribution (e.g., "The professor said...").
✅ A crucial step is deleting attribution phrases like "The professor explains," which saves time and demonstrates confidence.
💡 Simply deleting three words is good, but the ultimate goal is wanting the responsibility—taking full credit for good points and full blame for errors—instead of hiding behind the source.

Developing Content for Advanced Scores
🧠 Earning an advanced score requires critical thinking to progress ideas, rather than just mimicking what was heard.
🛠️ Start with the information given by the professor, but then develop it and progress it further by building upon that logic.
🚫 If you only copy the information without making an extension or development, you only demonstrate the ability to copy, which is not advanced.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ For TOEFL Integrated Speaking (Q3/Q4), progress the idea; scoring rubrics emphasize "progression of ideas," not copying.
➡️ Assume authority: State the information directly (e.g., "The placebo effect has medical benefits") instead of attributing it to the lecturer to show confidence and earn higher points.
➡️ If the lecture topic is about animals or concepts (not the professor), do not mention the professor; the question asks you to explain, not quote.

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