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Content Writer at Study Abroad Exams | Updated On - May 10, 2021

Independent writing tasks of TOEFL generally appear easy to the candidates as here they simply need to write an essay based on a given prompt. In TOEFL writing independent tasks, candidates need to include examples in relevance to the topic. A lack of TOEFL writing preparation can make this task difficult. To avoid this, candidates can practice daily with the TOEFL writing practice paper and check TOEFL writing samples for independent writing tasks.

This particular topic stresses how sports or libraries are better for humans. Sports help students to relax from studies. In this competitive world, people are always running behind books to get more knowledge to earn good grades and to achieve their goals. This particular question type often gets repeated in the TOEFL exam and the previous year’s questions also have it.

A sample answer for TOEFL independent tasks is given. Check this out:

Essay topics:

Do you agree or disagree? "Libraries and sports have similar importance to colleges and universities."

Model answer 1

Libraries are essential for all universities so that students can get more books to read, as well as sports are also needed for every student development. So I agree with the statement that sports and libraries should have equal importance in colleges and universities.

Sports help students to relax from studies. In this competitive world, people are always running behind books to get more knowledge to earn good grades and to achieve their goals. In their busy schedule, they must have time to relax. The best way to relax is to play games. If they don't relax they cannot concentrate more on their studies. By playing sports which they are interested in, they can get mental relief from stress and pressure. This will be more helpful for the students during their exams time. For example, when i was studying graduation, i used to play table tennis with my friend. Even though I played for ten or fifteen minutes, it gave me more relaxation and I was able to concentrate more.

Sports also helps to maintain our health. Health is more important to anyone. An old saying is " Health is wealth". Playing sports is not only mental relaxation but also physical relaxation to our body, moreover it is good exercise to the body. We can get good physical fitness by playing sports. We can burn many calories in our body by playing so it will help us to get rid of fat and cholesterol.

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Sports are also helpful to the students in their further studies and career. In some universities there are specific seats for national players, that is known as sports quota and in jobs also they will allot some seats for players. Even though they have less marks or grades than others, they will get the seats and jobs. For example, my friend got 3000 rank and I got 2000 rank in EAMCET. He got a seat in government college, whereas I got in private college. Because he is a national player in table tennis.

To conclude, sports are as equal as studies. So it is better to give equal importance in providing facilities for both studies and games. We need to encourage students in both.

Model Answer 2

Humans are creatures with multiple aspects, including physiological and psychological. We need a healthy body to enjoy our life otherwise we would have a lot of adversity, also no one wants to be stupid and parochial in order to have a promising future we must have plentiful knowledge and skills. I believe doing exercise and reading books both are vital for an individual. on the other hand, there are some people who disagree and they don’t believe in doing a workout or studying a book. I will describe two reasons for my opinion.

The main reason is that doing exercise is caring for the body and going to the library is caring for the mind. With doing exercise we can improve our body strength, we can do things that we could not before. A Library is a place that you can contemplate on moral, logical and scientific matters. For instance, I was planning to increase my body strength so every that I went running, during the first week I just could run for 1 Km and it was frustrating but after 3 weeks easily I could run 3 Km, also last year I was preparing myself for a big exam, when I start studying barely I could be sat for 2 hours and it was tedious for me, but after a month I could read 10 hours a day, this experiences show that we can improve our mental and physical ability with doing exercise and going to the library.

Another reason is that we have to remain healthy and also stay smart, nobody wants to be incompetent in doing daily jobs, meanwhile, it’s so unpleasant, being behind the news and technology, it makes you weak and stupid, you cannot bond with the smart young generation. For example my grandmother is so feeble, she cannot even take a bath alone, you will feel terrible if you were dependent on others even for your rudimentary needs she is illiterate too, there is not much joy for me and her other nephews to sit and talk about our life, I rather care for my health and knowledge in order to when I got old, I could handle my life.

In conclusion, I believe both sport and library can help us to improve ourselves, it’s better to put some of our time into training our body and our mind. I have a daily program for myself, in the morning I do some exercise before breakfast, and at night before sleep I put in some time to read a book.

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