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During the Fall and Spring semester, October to January and February to
May, the English Language Institute offers twice-a-week non-intensive TOEFL and SAT preparation courses.  Both courses consist of 80 academic hours and are offered either in the morning (for senior students attending school in the afternoon) or in the afternoon (for senior students attending school in the morning). 

During the Summer semester the same courses are offered intensively for four weeks in July.

Tuition:  EUR 394
Discounted tuition for Bulgarian applicants: EUR 198.

To register please call +35973-888/555/557/552 or write an email at: eli@aubg.edu

Detailed descriptions of the TOEFL and SAT preparation courses follow below.

TOEFL

TARGET POPULATION
The course is designed for students with an excellent command of English, primarily from English language and math schools or students who have successfully completed ELI University Preparatory Program Step 2, planning to use TOEFL as admission tests to American universities.

COURSE GOAL
The chief goal of the course is to build-up practical skills for success in the TOEFL test by reviewing basic and subtle grammatical items, enriching students’ vocabulary, acquainting them with useful test taking strategies. Most of all, students have the unique opportunity to complete a large number of sample tests in a real TOEFL Test Center.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

  1. It acquaints students with the format of the test.
  2. It significantly improves students’ listening comprehension skills by having them complete a number of internet-based TOEFL listening and speaking components.
  3. It allows students to gain accuracy in structure and written expression and speed in choosing the standard structure or recognizing the error.
  4. It teaches students effective strategies for reading and understanding academic and literary texts.
  5. It gives students the opportunity to write 7-10 short expository or argumentative essays on a number of exam topics.
  6. It helps students become familiar with the internet-based TOEFL and confident in doing it.

Upon completion of the course students approach TOEFL with more confidence. They will have accumulated considerable knowledge that helps them improve their score. Students will be also pointed out effective ways to continue self-preparing in order to boost their results.

AUBG TEST CENTER
The English Language Institute at the American University in Bulgaria is established as a certified ETS iBT Test Center. Testing dates are available 2 to 4 times a month and can be seen on www.ets.org.  Registration is on-line and the deadline is one week before the testing date. 

IBT TOEFL: Test Center code number is STN13646A.

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SAT I

TARGET POPULATION
The course is designed for students with an excellent command of English, primarily from English language and math schools or students who have successfully completed ELI University Preparatory Program Step 2, planning to use SAT as admission test to American universities.

COURSE GOAL
The chief goal of the course is to build-up practical skills for success in the SAT test by reviewing basic and subtle grammatical items, enriching students’ vocabulary, acquainting them with useful test taking strategies. Most of all, students have the unique opportunity to complete a large number of sample tests in a close to real exam settings.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Critical Reading Part

  1. It acquaints students with the format of the test.
  2. It equips students with various testing tactics, differing for all major types of verbal questions: sentence completion and reading comprehension.
  3. It provides students with graded ample practice on all types of critical reading  questions before doing model SAT tests.
  4. It gives students the unique opportunity to complete 10 to 12 sample tests in an improvised close-to-real exam setting.
  5. It enlarges students’ vocabulary by explaining some typical SAT words.
  6. It teaches students ways to enrich their vocabulary stock by drawing their attention to roots, prefixes and suffixes.
  7. It offers students long-range strategies for self-preparation after the course.

Writing Part

  1. It acquaints students with the types of questions in the section.
  2. It enables students to recognize and correct faults in usage and sentence structure.
  3. It assists students in recognizing effective sentences that follow the conventions of standard written English.
  4. It equips students with techniques and skills to edit and revise sentences in the context of a paragraph or an entire essay.

Mathematical Part

  1. It helps students build up the required math terminology.
  2. It provides comprehensive mathematical review in arithmetic, algebra and geometry.
  3. It reinforces students’ math skills.
  4. It enables students to simulate actual testing conditions, providing them with the mathematical part of model tests.

Upon completion of the course, students approach SAT with more confidence. They will have accumulated considerable knowledge that helps them improve their score. Students will be also pointed out effective ways to continue self-preparing in order to boost their results.

AUBG TEST CENTER
The Admissions Office at the American University in Bulgaria is established as a regular test center for SAT Reasoning Test & SAT Subject Tests. The test center code number is 56 502. Contact information:  admissions@aubg.edu.

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