TOEFL iBT Reading - Model questions

TOEFL IBT Reading - Sample Questions: Factual Information

In this type of questions of the In the TOEFL IBT Reading , you are asked to look for a detail in the text. The correct answer is often a restatement of what is explicitly stated in the text. The question title usually tells you which paragraph to look for the information in.

This type of question is formulated in the form :

• According to the paragraph X, … occurs because … ?
• It is stated in paragraph

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TOEFL IBT Reading - Methodology: Factual Information

It's very likely that you won't remember the detail mentioned in the question after just one reading, so you'll have to go back to the text to find the answer.

There is 2 ways to find the right answer :

• Look for the right solution and find it among the choices offered
• Eliminate incorrect answer choices one by one. The elimination method is particularly effective.

Each incorrect "detail" answer choice falls into one of these categories :

• Extrapolation
• Wrong way
• Inaccurate
• Does not answer the question

Method to adopt

1- Identify the fact to be analyzed by reading the question

2- Identify the location where it is approached

3- Try to guess the correct answer

4- Find the correct answer among the answer choices

TOEFL IBT Reading - Standard questions: Except Questions

In this type of question of the TOEFL IBT Reading You are asked to identify the single piece of factual information that is false. This type of question is similar to questions of type "factual information" , but instead of asking what the only true information is, you are asked what the only false information is. Again, the question title invites you to look at a particular place in the text.

TOEFL IBT Reading - Methodology: Except question

It's very likely that you won't remember the detail mentioned in the question after just one reading, so you'll have to go back to the text to find the answer.
Even if the method is very close to that of the factual information , it differs somewhat from it

There is 2 ways to find the right answer :

• Look for the right solution and find it among the choices offered
• Eliminate incorrect answer choices one by one. The elimination method is particularly effective.

It is very important to understand how designers construct the correct answer. In this type of question, the false information falls into one of these two categories:

• Wrong way
• Extrapolation

Method to adopt

1- Identify the fact to be analyzed by reading the question AND by reading the answer choices.

2- If you have found the correct answer, then the text must contradict the answer choice.

3- If the correct answer is of the "extrapolation" type, then the most reasonable method is to eliminate the answer choices one by one.

Mistakes to avoid

• Be wary of divisive words such as “always” or “ever”
• Be wary of answer choices that are too similar to what is said in the text.

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