They buy a vocabulary book. They memorize "despite vs. although." They take 20 practice tests hoping the answers will eventually stick.
Most people prepare for the TOEIC backward. Toeic Test Training
Deep training means doing full 200-question simulations—with the same timing, same answer sheet, no breaks. You aren’t just training English. You’re training your attention span. They buy a vocabulary book
The TOEIC is not a test of your best English. It’s a test of your average English under suboptimal conditions. same answer sheet
The worst thing you can do is try to write everything down. By the time you finish a word, the speaker is two sentences ahead.
Most people train in 20-minute sprints. That’s a mistake.