Bismillah

Bismillahku
Tiap langkah penuh ragu
KarenaNya ragu ini sirna
Pasti dalam dekapanmu
Membuat badai menjadi pelangi

Bismillahku
Kusematkan hal baik dalam sujud
5waktu atau lebih tak lupa selalu
Dengan rendah hati
Aduan yang kau inginkan datang
Bukan saat ini menunggu yang tepat tercipta

Bismillahku
Hilangkan arang melintang penuh teguh
Meninggalkan dia karenaNya
Berat memang, kucilan dari sekitar
tapi janjimu lebih!

Bismillahku
Pendirian kokoh dengan keminoritasan ini
Hapus semua rintihan
Pantaskan diri untuk penantian didepan
Tenangkan jiwa yang rapuh ini

Bismillahku
Penantian tak akan bohong
Kesetiaan pasti manis
Semu mu selalu tampak
Tapi ku tetap memilihNya
Meski ku mencintai dia
Kau selalu tunggal
Percaya akan berakhir indah

why toefl so important?

I think there are some things that make toefl very important among the community as TOEFL scores are typically used as the main requirement increase in a person's career or the terms of a recruitment and another reason why toefl very important that:

1. As one of the requirements of graduation from a university, an example of which I experienced at my college when will pass S1. 
2. Want to continue the study of S1 to S2 or S3 at most universities both domestically and abroad, especially the use of the language of instruction lectures in English, TOEFL is one of the main requirement. 
3. Want to follow the short course program by agencies or foundations abroad in a particular field. examples of training programs to the German intermediary technology which was held by the Ministry of Research and Technology requires a TOEFL score for applicants.
4. Want to particular structural positions in government agencies or important positions in certain private companies, where the TOEFL is used as one of the requirements in recruitment or career hierarchy. 
5. Lately there are some specific high school in Indonesia has given the TOEFL-like test for students who will complete their study.

Ainul Mardhiah

well, ini lagi di perpus lagi pusing-pusingnya benerin revisi buat deadline tanggal 11 juli dengan wifi gratis dikampus perut keadaan marawisan, belum mandi, ac sepay-sepoy bikin masuk angin, puasa, alah complicated. Tapi pagi-pagi harus udah sampe kampus demi revisi(killingmeplease). lagi ngarep laptop pusing kan yaudah buka-buka tiba-tiba nemuin artikel Ainul Mardhiah.!!! pas udah baca artikelnya update pm "Ainul Mardhiah" dan ada yang coment "cie jadian-__-" entah itu orang fea atau apa! #abaikan yang gak tau dia well ini ceritanya (boleh copas).

Ketika pagi hari di bulan Ramadhan, Nabi sedang memberikan targhib (semangat untuk berjihad) kepada pasukan Islam. Nabi pun bersabda, "Sesungguhnya orang yang mati syahid karena Allah, maka Allah akan menganugerahkannya Ainul Mardhiah, bidadari paling cantik di surga". Salah satu sahabat yang masih muda yang mendengar cerita itu menjadi penasaran. Namun, karena malu kepada Nabi dan sahabat-sahabat lain, sahabat ini tidak jadi mencari tahu lebih dalam mengenai Ainul Mardhiah.

Waktu Zuhur sebentar lagi, sesuai sunah Rasul, para sahabat dipersilakan untuk tidur sejenak sebelum pergi berperang. Bersama kafilah perangnya pun sahabat yang satu ini tidur terlelap dan sampai bermimpi. Di dalam mimpinya dia berada di tempat yang sangat indah yang belum pernah ia kunjungi sebelumnya. 

Dia pun bertemu dengan seorang wanita yang sangat cantik yang belum pernah ia lihat sebelumnya. Ia pun bertanya kepada wanita tersebut,
"Di manakah ini?".

"Inilah surga.", jawab wanita itu.
Kemudian sahabat ini bertanya lagi, "Apakah Anda Ainul Mardhiah?".
"Bukan, saya bukan Ainul Mardhiah. Kalau Anda ingin bertemu dengan Ainul Mardhiah, dia sedang beristirahat di bawah pohon yang rindang itu." Didapatinya oleh sahabat itu seorang wanita yang kecantikannya berkali-kali lipat dari wanita pertama yang ia lihat.
"Apakah Anda Ainul Mardhiah?"
"Bukan saya ini penjaganya. Kalau Anda ingin bertemunya di sanalah singgasananya."

Lalu sahabat ini pun pergi ke singgasana tersebut dan sampailah ke suatu mahligai. Didapatinya seorang wanita yang kecantikannya berlipat-lipat dari wanita sebelumnya yang sedang mengelap-ngelap perhiasan. Sahabat ini pun memberanikan diri untuk bertanya.

"Apakah Anda Ainul Mardhiah?"
"Bukan, saya bukan Ainul Mardhiah. Saya penjaganya di mahligai ini. Jika Anda ingin menemuinya, temuilah ia di mahligai itu." Pemuda itu pun beranjak dan sampailah ke mahligai yang ditunjukkan. Didapatinya seorang wanita yang kecantikannya berlipat-lipat dari wanita sebelumnya dan sangat pemalu. Pemuda itu pun bertanya.

"Apakah Anda Ainul Mardhiah?"
"Ya, benar saya Ainul Mardhiah"

Pemuda itu pun mendekat, tetapi Ainul Mardhiah menghindar dan berkata, "Anda bukan seorang yang mati syahid." Seketika itu juga pemuda itu terbangun dari mimpinya. Dia pun menceritakan ceritanya ini kepada seorang sahabat kepercayaannya yang dimohonkan untuk merahasiakannya sampai ia mati syahid. Komando jihad pun menggelora. Sahabat ini pun dengan semangatnya berjihad untuk dapat bertemu dengan Ainul Mardhiah. Ia pun akhirnya mati syahid.

Di petang hari ketika buka puasa, sahabat kepercayaan ini menceritakan mimpi sahabat yang mati syahid ini kepada Nabi. Nabi pun membenarkan mimpi sahabat muda ini dan Nabi bersabda, "Sekarang ia bahagia bersama Ainul Mardhiah".

Between Toefl and Toeic

TOEFL stands for Test Of English as a Foreign Language (Test of English as a foreign language), made by ETS (Educational Testing Service), an agency in the United States. The TOEFL test is required for college entrance requirements in almost all universities in the United States and Canada who then also for the students who apply to universities of Europe and Australia. This test undergraduate program (S-1) and graduate (S-2 or S-3).
In general, this test to assess:

1. Students have the ability to write and grammar in English to be able to make a scientific article.
2. Students have the ability to read English properly so that later can understand the books required textbooks.
3. Students have the ability to listen well and truly on the description given lectures in English.

This test generally takes about three hours and is organized in four parts, namely the:

•  grammatical structure and written expression
•  listening comprehension 
•  Reading Comprehension
• Writing.

Until now, the TOEFL has undergone a change of format 3 evolution since it was first created 47 years ago. In addition to the change in format, TOEFLjuga changing very different in terms of results / value, as seen in the following chart

1. Years 1964-1998 TOEFL Paper Based Test (PBT)
2. In 1998-2005 TOEFL Computer Based Test (CBT)
3. 2005 - Now TOEFL Internet Based Test

TOEFL iBT test this new format is a tool that can measure the English language all four language skills (Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing) in an objective, valid and focused for those who follow this TOEFL test. Thus, the TOEFL iBT is a measure of the standard of English in the  academic world that is appropriate to beused as:

1.  English language requirements for study abroad.
2.  Screening scholarship or student exchange progra
3. Standards readiness to follow academic courses in English

The TOEFL test is more oriented to American English, in contrast to the type of IELTS test oriented to British English

TOEIC stands for Test of English for International Communication. The TOEIC test is not yet well known by the public. Colleagues may only know the tests are intended for vocational students. That is because the government requires this test for them as a graduation requirement. However, it is not only vocational students who use this test. TOEIC test has also been used in banking circles. They even use it long ago before the advent of the TOEFL test. For colleagues who work or who will be working in a place that uses the English language, it is necessary to follow the TOEIC test.The TOEIC test is a measure of how high English proficiency in communicating. Therefore, the TOEIC test is required by some of the parties, as follows:

1. Employees or staff who uses the English language in a variety of work environments, such as businesses, hotels, hospitals, restaurants, international meetings, conferences, and sports programs with international standards.
2. Staff management, sales, and employees of the techniques in international business, trade and industry who need English in their work.
3. Training candidates who use English as the language of instruction attend the training.
4. The vocational students as a graduation requirement for the National Examination.

TOEIC TEST FORMAT

Until now, the type of TOEIC is a multiple choice test that consists of 200 questions and performed within 2 hours. Inside are two sessions, namely listening and reading sections, each session consists of 100 questions.

For listening skills must be completed within 45 minutes. Listening skills are divided into four skills, namely:

1. photographs, 10 questions
2. The question-response, question 30
3. conversations, 30 questions
4. short talks, 30 questions

For reading skills must be completed within 75 minutes. Reading skills are divided into four skills, namely:

1. incomplete sentence, 40 questions
2. error recognition, 20 questions
3. single reading comprehension passage, 20 questions
4. double passage reading comprehension, 20 questions

Material matter for each session has been adapted on the things that are familiar in the use of the English language daily. So, for colleagues who will do the TOEIC test need not worry.SCORE INTERPRETATIONTOEIC certificate has 5 colors. Each color signifies more will score. The colors are:

• Orange ---> 10-215
• Brown ---> 220-465
• Green ---> 470-725
• Blue ---> 730-855
• Gold ---> 860-990

Summary

TOEIC and TOEFL are designed for different purposes. TOEFL is intended for students or students who wish to continue their studies in the United States and Canada. While TOEIC is intended for those whose native language is not English dialog wear and want to show the ability to communicate in English in the world of work and take part in globalization.
 

TOEIC and TOEFL have a different assessment standards. If the TOEFL score can not be used as the main criterion because each place has a different assessment, however the TOEIC, this test uses the international standard alignment. If abroad, TOIEC already very popular. The proof, of the existing data, it turns out this test has been used about 10,000 companies in the world. Perhaps, it could be because in addition to international standards, as well as TOEIC which has existed since 1979. Thus, the level was higher than the TOEFL test.
TOEIC score starting from the number 400 to 990. There are six levels, namely level 0/0 + Novice (score 10-250), level 1 Elementary (score 255-400), Intermediate level 1+ (score 405-600), level 2 Basic Working Proficiency (score 605-780), Advance Working profiency 2+ level (a score of 785-900) and level 3/3 + General Professional Proficiency (score 905-990).
TOEIC has two kinds of tests that test reading and listening with a score range of 10-990. While the TOEFL test has three kinds of options among which are PBT (Paper Based Test), CBT (Computer Based Test), and IBT (Internet Based Test). Score TOEFL test is based on PBT (310-677), CBT (30-300), and IBT (8-120).

http://www.kursusmudahbahasainggris.com/2013/10/apa-itu-tes-toeic.html#ixzz3bZmsTYl7
http://www.ef.co.id/englishfirst/englishstudy/perbedaan-toeic-dan-toefl.aspx 
http://mugocaturpamungkas.blogspot.com/2011/04/perbedaan-toefl-dan-toeic.html

How to Get High TOEFL scores on Reading Comprehension

As you know, the TOEFL test all aspects of English language skills, ie speaking, writing, listening and reading. Each section would have difficulty each. In reading comprehension, a major problem often encountered is the lack of time available to do all the questions, because usually the time consumed for reading comprehension. Therefore, the necessary tips and tricks to be able to overcome these problems and how to get a high TOEFL scores on the reading comprehension.

The first one, you do not need to spend your time just to read about. Typically, you will be hooked to understand the overall readings given, let alone what it was interesting when reading or even elusive. If you try to understand all the contents of the reading, of course it will spend your time. When in fact you do not have to understand the whole readings to be able to work on the given problem. Actually you quite understand the main idea of ​​each paragraph. Generally, the basic idea can be found at the beginning or end of a paragraph. The basic idea is to represent the contents of a paragraph, so enough with the basic idea of ​​course you've got information about the paragraph.After that, try to observe the keywords of each question, because generally each question has a certain keyword related to reading. Keywords that will be very important because it will allow you to find the answer in reading. With these keywords, you can more quickly get information from reading, and then match it with a question and answer options are available. You can imagine how long you have to understand the reading if you can not find the keyword on the matter and readings. With the keywords of the question, search for information on reading it will be more focused.

Third, you should not panic if you have any long readings or already understood. If you encounter such problems, you need to use your ability to guess the intent of the passage. This can be done by finding key ideas, or important words from the text. Then, you also need to understand the context of the reading well, especially for the type of questions to ask the meaning of a word. A word may change the meaning in context, and you need to be careful and observant in understanding the context of this passage. In addition, use the same scanning method to obtain specific information on the given problem. Scanning can be done by using the words the principal of the question. This will certainly save you time over having to read one by one. In addition, if you find it difficult to get the right answer, you can use the elimination method, namely by eliminating answer choices that are likely not related to the matter. In this test, you will be given 20 minutes to complete six questions. The first two are still a matter of a simple test. You will be asked to give an answer that is accompanied by a certain reason. The questions tend to be simple however, you are only given a short amount of time to think.

In addition, if you find a problem that if difficult, try to skip that question and move on to another matter and do about that later. This is very important in relation to the use of the allocation of the available time. If you are too focused on the difficult problem, you will be a lot of wasted time and it is not enough to work on another topic. In addition, you need to try to stay focused. Concentration will be needed. In addition, physical health is well prepared, so that when the test condition your body healthy. In addition, you can also bring a watch so you can control your time with good workmanship.

 Example for reading compprehension

Choose the best answer to each question based on the information which is stated or implied in the text.
No student of a foreign language needs to be told that grammar is complex.  By changing word sequences and by adding a range of auxiliary verbs and suffixes, we are able to communicate tiny variations in meaning.  We can turn a statement into a question, state whether an action has taken place or is soon to take place, and perform many other word tricks to convey subtle differences in meaning.  Nor is this complexity inherent to the English language.  All languages, even those of so-called ‘primitive’ tribes have clever grammatical components.  The Cherokee pronoun system, for example, can distinguish between ‘you and I’, ‘several other people and I’ and ‘you, another person and I’.  In English, all these meanings are summed up in the one, crude pronoun ‘we’.  Grammar is universal and plays a part in every language, no matter how widespread it is.  So the question which has baffled many linguists is – who created grammar?

At first, it would appear that this question is impossible to answer.  To find out how grammar is created, someone needs to be present at the time of a language’s creation, documenting its emergence.  Many historical linguists are able to trace modern complex languages back to earlier languages, but in order to answer the question of how complex languages are actually formed, the researcher needs to observe how languages are started from scratch.  Amazingly, however, this is possible.

Some of the most recent languages evolved due to the Atlantic slave trade.  At that time, slaves from a number of different ethnicities were forced to work together under colonizer’s rule.  Since they had no opportunity to learn each other’s languages, they developed a make-shift language called a pidgin.  Pidgins are strings of words copied from the language of the landowner.  They have little in the way of grammar, and in many cases it is difficult for a listener to deduce when an event happened, and who did what to whom.  [A] Speakers need to use circumlocution in order to make their meaning understood.  [B] Interestingly, however, all it takes for a pidgin to become a complex language is for a group of children to be exposed to it at the time when they learn their mother tongue.  [C] Slave children did not simply copy the strings of words uttered by their elders, they adapted their words to create a new, expressive language.  [D] Complex grammar systems which emerge from pidgins are termed creoles, and they are invented by children.

Further evidence of this can be seen in studying sign languages for the deaf.  Sign languages are not simply a series of gestures; they utilise the same grammatical machinery that is found in spoken languages.  Moreover, there are many different languages used worldwide. The creation of one such language was documented quite recently in Nicaragua. Previously, all deaf people were isolated from each other, but in 1979 a new government introduced schools for the deaf.  Although children were taught speech and lip reading in the classroom, in the playgrounds they began to invent their own sign system, using the gestures that they used at home.  It was basically a pidgin.  Each child used the signs differently, and there was no consistent grammar.  However, children who joined the school later, when this inventive sign system was already around, developed a quite different sign language.  Although it was based on the signs of the older children, the younger children’s language was more fluid and compact, and it utilised a large range of grammatical devices to clarify meaning.  What is more, all the children used the signs in the same way.  A new creole was born.
Some linguists believe that many of the world’s most established languages were creoles at first.  The English past tense –ed ending may have evolved from the verb ‘do’.  ‘It ended’mayonce have been’It end-did’.  Therefore it would appear that even the most widespread languages were partly created by children.  Children appear to have innate grammatical machinery in their brains, which springs to life when they are first trying to make sense of the world around them.  Their minds can serve to create logical, complex structures, even when there is no grammar present for them to copy.

1  In paragraph 1, why does the writer include information about the Cherokee language?
(A) To show how simple, traditional cultures can have complicated grammar structures.
(B) To show how English grammar differs from Cherokee grammar.
(C) To prove that complex grammar structures were invented by the Cherokees.
(D) To demonstrate how difficult it is to learn the Cherokee language.

2  What can be inferred about the slaves’ pidgin language?
(A) It contained complex grammar.
(B) It was based on many different languages.
(C) It was difficult to understand, even among slaves.
(D) It was created by the land-owners.

3  All the following sentences about Nicaraguan sign language are true EXCEPT:
(A) The language has been created since 1979.
(B) The language is based on speech and lip reading.
(C) The language incorporates signs which children used at home.
(D) The language was perfected by younger children.

4. In paragraph 3, where can the following sentence be placed?
It included standardised word orders and grammatical markers that existed in neither the pidgin language, nor the language of the colonizers.
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D

5  ’From scratch’ in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to:
(A) from the very beginning
(B) in simple cultures
(C) by copying something else
(D) by using written information

6  ’Make-shift’ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to:
(A) complicated and expressive
(B) simple and temporary
(C) extensive and diverse
(D) private and personal

7  Which sentence is closest in meaning to the highlighted sentence?
Grammar is universal and plays a part in every language, no matter how widespread it is.
(A) All languages, whether they are spoken by a few people or a lot of people, contain grammar.
(B) Some languages include a lot of grammar, whereas other languages contain a little.
(C) Languages which contain a lot of grammar are more common that languages that contain a little.
(D) The grammar of all languages is the same, no matter where the languages evolved.

8  All of the following are features of the new Nicaraguan sign language EXCEPT:
(A) All children used the same gestures to show meaning.
(B) The meaning was clearer than the previous sign language.
(C) The hand movements were smoother and smaller.
(D) New gestures were created for everyday objects and activities.

9  Which idea is presented in the final paragraph?
(A) English was probably once a creole.
(B) The English past tense system is inaccurate.
(C) Linguists have proven that English was created by children.
(D) Children say English past tenses differently from adults.

10  Look at the word ‘consistent’ in paragraph 4. This word could best be replaced by which of the following?
(A) natural
(B) predictable
(C) imaginable
(D) uniform