llow me to explain.  Sure!  You CAN Study Vocabulary For The TOEFL Exam.  It certainly won’t hurt your score.  That is, of course, unless you spend all or MOST of your time studying vocabulary, and not spending any time actually learning.

nd — if your range of vocabulary is not already high enough to be taking The TOEFL Exam, then you need to raise your level of English Skills BEFORE you think about registering for the exam.  In other words — Studying Vocabulary For The TOEFL Exam is a LONG-Term preparation tactic.

tudying Vocabulary is something that will benefit you if you are thinking about taking The TOEFL Exam sometime in the next year or two.  In that case, your learning of new vocabulary will improve your overall English skills — which will help you on The TOEFL Exam.  It will also give you the time necessary for the addition of any new vocabulary to become part of your natural “Lexicon” (the collection of words that you commonly use.)

he reason that this is important is because — if you try to use words which you are not familiar with in your Speaking or Writing responses in The TOEFL Exam — it will most-likely show in the way that you use them, which could result in receiving a lower score than if you simply used words that you know.  I promise you that the judges who score your responses are not going to be impressed by “big words”.

hat’s a very good question!  And the answer that you REALLY NEED TO KNOW IS:  NONE OF THE VOCABULARY THAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE TEACHING IN BOOKS AND VIDEOS ON “TOEFL Vocabulary”.  It is all a complete waste or your time and energy!

ther teachers will tell you that you should learn words about:  Geology, Biology, History, Art, etc..  NONE of the words that you would study by following those teachers will — IN ANY WAY — help you on The TOEFL Exam!  They may exapand your general vocabulary — but they won’t increase your TOEFL Score.

he ONLY words that you absolutely NEED to know is what I call “Functional Vocabulary”.  This is vocabulary that will actually be in the instructions and the *Question-Stems on the exam.

hat’s another very good question!  And the answer is:  Because most teachers are lazy and are not good at what they do.  But even the one who ARE actually trying to help you, are not thinking about this from the view-point of a “Test-Taker”.  They are thinking about the situation from the view-point of a Teacher.

teacher is supposed to teach.  So most teachers are focused on providing “QUANTITY” of content.  The idea is:  “The more information they give you, the better they are doing their job.  But YOUR view-point as “The Test-Taker” is that you need to achieve at least a certain score or better.  That is your goal.

o obtaining a massive amount of information that is NOT going to get you that score is a waste of your time, your energy, and very-often…  your money.

nother brilliant question!  And this is another area where — even though I’m SURE that the other teachers who may tell you that you need to do this are trying to help you — they are not using logic in their reasoning for telling you this.

o Prepare For The TOEFL Exam — you need to maximize your time and efforts.  Those other books and videos have a HUGE amount of vocabulary from lots of different topics — and there is an INCREDIBLY slim chance that ANY of it will be on your exam.  AND…  there is an amazingly GOOD chance that absolutely NONE of it will be helpful — in any way.

nd here is the part where all those other teachers get the logic completely wrong…  You Are NOT Being Tested On Your Knowledge Of Those Topics!!!  You Are Being Tested On Your Ability To Comprehend What You Read And What You Hear People Discuss!  Nobody studies those topics BEFORE they go to university!  The go to university SO THAT they can study those topics!!!

know…  Mind-Blowing how simple and logical that is.  It’s almost like I know what I’m talking about!  😉  And yet — other teachers in Traditional TOEFL Courses keep telling you that you should waste your time by doing what will NOT get you the score you need — and ignore all of the stuff that you actually NEED to know to “Achieve Excellence On The TOEFL Exam”.

ow!  You are just filled with excellent questions!  So I’ll give you an excellent answer.  😉  Your time is BEST spent, learning How To Answer Every Question & Fulfill Every Task On The Exam.  Not on the accumulation of abstract skills and random information that may or may not help you.

his means learning every TYPE of Question & Task on exam.  How to identify them;  What they are asking for;  What Tricks & Traps you may come across with each of these Question- & Task-Types; and the Master Skills Necessary to Dominate Every Single One Of Them!

nd the only way to do that is with a PROPER course, by an EXPERT teacher who is approaching the task of preparing you for The TOEFL Exam — from YOUR view-point;  From the view-point of the Test-Taker.  With the ONLY goal of making sure that you absolutely Achieve The HIGHEST POSSIBLE SCORE On The TOEFL Exam!