I know this is just skill-building stuff. It also includes some of the speaking question styles that were removed from the test last year. The speaking concepts chapter is a bit weird in that it blends TOEFL speaking questions with questions that are totally not TOEFL speaking questions. I can’t help shake the feeling that Princeton Review made this section short just because creating listening content is much more expensive than creating reading content. The core concepts stuff about listening is much sparser (9 pages vs 72 pages) but those nine pages are fine. A lot of students need to really improve their reading skills and start looking at real TOEFL questions. None of these questions are actually TOEFL questions (which could be confusing) but they are about the content contained in TOEFL-style articles. I really like that the book begins with a whole lot of academic reading practice and questions that students can work through to hone their reading skills. The book begins with about 170 pages of skill-building exercises connected to the “core concepts” of the TOEFL (reading, listening, speaking, writing). I’ll go into detail about what is bad about the book in a moment, but I guess we should start with the good, right? It is inaccurate, and it badly needs a good editor. The Princeton Review TOEFL iBT Prep 2021 is an updated version of what used to be called “Cracking the TOEFL” The new name is better, but sadly this isn’t a very good book. Princeton Review TOEFL iBT Prep 2021 Book Review