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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



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



3. Reading Screen

3. Reading Screen



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.



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



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



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



9. Insert Text Questions

• Click on one of four squares to indicate best placement

for new sentence.

worth one point



• 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



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



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



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.



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.

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