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TOEFL iBT Reading Overview
Section Content Time Score
Reading 3─5 700-word
passages
11─13
questions with
a total score of
14
20 minutes per
passage
60─100 total
minutes
/30
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2. Reading Passages
• Reading passages are from first-year college and
university textbooks.
academic content
information dense
• 12th grade reading level
• Readings contain low-frequency vocabulary.
• 36 –73 very difficult words per reading
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3. Reading Screen
3. Reading Screen
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4. Answers in Reading Passages
• The order of the questions follows the order of the
information in the passage.
• The answer for question one is before the answer for
question two.
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5. Reading Toolbar Buttons
• NEXT
see the next question
• BACK
see the previous question
• REVIEW
see a list of answered and unanswered questions
• VIEW TEXT
view the entire passage
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6. Review Screen
• Click on REVIEW button in the Reading section to see
the review screen.
• Review screen has a list of answered and unanswered
questions
GO TO QUESTION: see the question
highlighted in the list
RETURN: go back to before you
clicked REVIEW button
GO TOQUESTION
RETURN
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8. Multiple Choice Questions
• Paraphrase Questions
recognize simplified and rephrased sentences with same
meaning as sentences from the passage
• Factual Information Questions
identify true information
• Inference Questions
draw a conclusion from stated facts
• Negative Factual Information Questions
identify a fact that is not true or not mentioned in passage
• Purpose Questions
identify why author included a highlighted word or phrase
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9. Insert Text Questions
• Click on one of four squares to indicate best placement
for new sentence.
worth one point
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• Drag and drop answers to one of three summary
positions.
You don’t have to put answers in order.
worth two points• ____________________
• ____________________
• ____________________
10. Prose Summary Questions
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11. Schematic Framework Questions
• Drag and drop answer choices into the correct
category.
more answers than slots—some answers do not fit under
either category
worth three or four points
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12. Common Distractors
• Distractors are incorrect answers.
• Several types of distractors:
repeat words from the reading but incorrectly answer the
question
are not mentioned in the reading
contradict information in the reading passage
do not answer the question
are incomplete
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13. Helpful Tips
• Correct answers
are usually restatements from the reading passage.
• If you don’t know the answer,
use process of elimination.
select the most logical answer.
• If time is running out,
answer the easy questions first.
guess for remaining questions.
• You don’t lose points for guessing.
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14. More Helpful Tips
• If you finish early,
continue checking your answers.
• Your first choice is usually correct.
•
Answer all the questions in one passage before youmove on to the next.
focus will change when you read the second passage.