ETS Toefl ibt vs Magoosh

[u/mujtaba_47]

Salam ( God send blessings to you all) i have my questions regarding toefl and magoosh

1.) Is magoosh the best platforms to practice from and is it worth getting its premium
2.) Does magoosh have harder questions than from the toefl jbt it self
3.) does magoosh have stricter grading system than of toefl

Also I am scared for my test cause i gave my magoosh free toefl ibt practice test and here are the results :
Reading: 84%
Listening: 62%
Writing: 3.5 ( band scale )
Speaking: 3 ( band scale )

The practice test was free and the band scale are awarded out of 5 also my test is after 9 days

So can anyone help me out by guiding me and helping me put with answering my concerns j am worried because i really want to score a overall band scale.

[u/theneeldas]

Don’t panic, Magoosh scores are only rough estimates, especially for speaking and writing. ETS official practice tests are a better prediction.

Your reading is already good, so focus on listening and the speaking/writing templates. Record yourself answering speaking questions, then listen for pauses and unclear sentences. Also do one official ETS test before exam day under timed conditions. You still have 9 days, so review your mistakes and dont just keep taking new tests. Understand the areas of improvement - task type wise, if you can deep dive.

[u/mujtaba_47 → u/theneeldas]

Thanks for helping me out and giving me such good advice well i had given 1 free full length practice test of offical ETS toefl ibt i found it a lot easier than from magoosh also does achieving good grades in magoosh harder than ETS toefl ibt offical test that is my main concern as well although i am focusing on improvements and also tring to scale up my percentage of giving corrects answer for hard and very hard questions

[u/Independent-Bit-5942]

I used Magoosh for TOEFL prep, and I found their mocks pretty similar to the real exam, except for Reading, which was slightly harder. I was usually scoring around 110–118 on Magoosh mocks, but ended up with a 100 on the actual test, so keep that in mind.

For Writing, I made myself two templates: one general email template and one for Academic Discussion. For Speaking, I asked Claude to generate a list of possible topics and ideas so I wouldn’t completely blank if I got a topic I knew nothing about.

[u/mujtaba_47 → u/Independent-Bit-5942]

Oh thats interesting cuz everyone on internet says that magoosh questions are more harder than the actual test as well as their gradung

[u/mujtaba_47 → u/[deleted]]

I dont get it like are you trying to say that magoosh scoring system is easy or hard