TOEFL READING

 READING

• You will read three or four articles If you get four one of them will not be graded
• 9 to 10 question per article ( usually 10 )
• 54min ( 3 article ) on 72 min ( 4 article)
• You can be go backward and forward between  question and article

Common topics

• Environmental Science.
• Plant Biology
• History and sociology
• Biology and Zoology
• Psychology and Learning
• Climatology
• Geology

About the Question

• Factual information ( 1-3 per articles )
• Negative Factual information ( 1-2 )
• Vocabulary (1- 3 )
• Rhetonical Purpose (0-2 ) (less common )
• Sentence Simplification (0-1) (less common}
• Inference (0-1 )
• Reference (0-1)
• Insert a sentence(1)
• Summary ( 1 ) = 2 points
• Fill in a table ( 0-1 ) = 3 points

Basic timing

Read the article Quickly

• Spend about two minute reading each article
• This give you 136 per question. (don't memorize timing)
• Spend less than a min in vocab question and less than 2 min on everything else

QUESTION INFROMATION

1.FACTUAL INFORMATION QUESTION

The phrasing

• According to paragraph 2 , which of the following is true about X ?
• Paragraph 3 mentions which of the following  about X ?

2.PREVIEWING

Focus on the first sentence of each paragraph and last sentence of passage

3.MAIN IDEA

Main idea usually occurs of beginning of a reading passage . Look of the first two sentence of the passage

4.VOCABULARY

Read the passage close attention to the underlined words. Try to understand their meaning without  using dictionary

Tips to Answer 

Tip 1 Remember the question location

• Paragraph number is mention in the question .
• Question comes in sequential order.
• Find answers faster by focusing on the location of the previous answers

Tip # 2 - Be aware of modifier

Modifier are adjectives of adverbs

Popular modifier

(a) Extreme modifier :- all, always, never only (0 to 100 )

(b)Frequency modifier :-usually . sometimes, almost always

Sentence with Extreme modifier , choices are incorrect. Avoid choices that use extreme modifiers. In academic things are hardly ever contain all the time .

(c)Degree modifier :- some, most , almost all

(d) time modifier :-dozen century, millenium .

Changing the modifier is an easy and popular way to make an incorrect choices.

Tip#3 Narrow your focus and limit your Keywords

Kevwords  provide the valuable information in a given statement. They usually consist of noun verbs and adjective.

    Why study keywords ?

• Read the question faster.
• Find information in the passage faster
• Trigger action reading strategies
• Become a more efficient test token

Tip #4:-

          Eliminate before you answer

Tip #5 :-

•        time management ,

Tip#6 

•  Practise with the same test more than once

Tip #7

• Explain your answer .

Tip #8 

•   Pick the right time and place to study.

Tip # 9

• Get professional support .