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Master the TOEFL Reading section with practice questions

  • Description

    Reading

    The TOEFL iBT Reading section evaluates your capability to comprehend and interpret academic texts. Familiarize yourself with the question types to boost your score.

    20 Questions in total

    Takes 35 minutes

  • Factual Information

    2~5 questions per passage0 users tried

    Identify information that is explicitly stated in the passage.
    Study Tip

    • ❖ The correct answer is usually paraphrased from the text. ❖ Watch out for specific numbers mentioned in the text, for they are often used as distractors. ❖ Extreme words such as "always" or "never" can also be distractors.

    • Inference

      1~2 questions per passage0 users tried

      Identify an idea that is implied but not stated in the passage.
      Study Tip

      • ❖ First, focus on the general idea of the relevant paragraph and figure out the author's perspective on it; this means you should NOT choose your answer based on your guess. Even if it is an "inference" question, the answer is in the text.

      • Insert Text

        1 question per passage0 users tried

        Identify the best place to insert a sentence in the passage.
        Study Tip

        • ❖ Make sure to re-read the completed paragraph after you insert the given sentence in one of the candidates. This way, you can be confident of your answer.

        • Negative Factual Information

          0~2 questions per passage0 users tried

          Identify information that is incorrect or not mentioned in the passage.
          Study Tip

          • ❖ Don't waste time reading the whole text to find the answer to this question. Read the question first and remove wrong answer choices based on the details in the text.

          • Reference

            0~2 questions per passage0 users tried

            Identify the relationship between words in the passage.
            Study Tip

            • ❖ This question is one of the easiest questions in the section, so never miss it. ❖ Replace the pronoun with each answer choice to see if it makes sense.

            • Rhetorical Purpose

              1~2 questions per passage0 users tried

              Identify the reason 'why' the author presents a particular piece of information in the passage.
              Study Tip

              • ❖ After choosing your answer, recheck it by imagining what should be presented based on your choice. If it is presented in the text, you got it right.

              • Sentence Simplification

                0~1 question per passage0 users tried

                Identify the sentence that best summarizes the essential information from the sentence given in the passage.
                Study Tip

                • ❖ An accurate, full understanding of the given sentence is required, including its meaning and the relationship between pieces of information in it. ❖ Read each answer choice very carefully, for wrong answer choices distort the meaning of the given sentence slightly while still looking very attractive.

                • Summary

                  1 question per passage0 users tried

                  Choose 3 options that best summarize the main points of the passage.
                  Study Tip

                  • ❖ If it is tricky to pick the correct answers, start with clearly wrong answer choices. By removing wrong answer choices, you can leave the correct ones.

                  • Vocabulary

                    1~2 questions per passage0 users tried

                    Identify the contextual meaning of a particular word or phrase given in the passage.
                    Study Tip

                    • ❖ Insert each choice in the sentence to see if it makes sense. ❖ Build a strong vocabulary. Include synonyms when you study TOEFL vocabulary.

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