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Reading skills

The objective is to assess your understanding of academic level texts and passages in different settings.

The purposes of academic reading are :

Reading to find information : ability to skim effectively and read quickly

Basic comprehension : understanding of the main idea and major points, vocabulary in context and pronoun references. The ability to make inferences.

Reading to learn :

ability to recognize the organization and objective of a passage,

understand relationships between ideas,

summarising while recalling major points and important details,

inferring how ideas throughout the text connect

Description

There are two reading passages (approx. 700 words long)

10 questions per passage

35 minutes to read and answer all the questions for both passages (your are allowed up to 36 minutes)

Reading passages are excerpt from college essays and other books that are of academic level

The passages can be divided into three categories : exposition, argumentation, and historical and biographical narrative

Often passages will present informations on more than one point of view which you should note as you read

At least one question will be about the organization of the passage

Common organization are : classification, compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution

You must read through/scroll on the full text in order to see the questions. Once they appear the text will be on the left and the questions on the right

All the informations required to answer the questions are available in the text

Reading questions format

There are four question format

Questions with four choice and a single right answer

Multiple choice questions with more than one right answer

Four choice question with a single right answer asking the test taker to “insert a sentence” where it fits best in the passage

Reading-to-learn questions which have more than four choices and require more than one correct answer

Features

Reading-to-learn questions test your ability to recognize the text’s organization and the relationship between facts and ideas in the passage.

You are asked to organize information with summaries which are worth up to 2 points each.

A glossary is available for special-purpose words and phrases by selecting them.

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The TOEFL iBT Reading section tests your ability to understand university-level texts of about 700 words. You don’t need prior knowledge—the answers are all in the text. Passages can explain ideas, argue a point, or describe historical events.

There are 9 question types divided into 3 categories:

1. Basic Information – answers are directly in the text. These include:

Factual information (finding specific details),

NOT/EXCEPT questions (identifying what is not mentioned),

Vocabulary (understanding word meanings from context),

Reference (identifying what words like “it” refer to),

Sentence simplification (choosing a shorter sentence with the same meaning).

2. Inference – require logical thinking. These include:

Inference (figuring out what is implied),

Author’s purpose (understanding why an example is used),

Text insertion (deciding where a new sentence fits best).

3. Summary – choosing key ideas to summarize the passage.

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Find information

To comprehend

To learn

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To find information

For basic comprehension

Reading to learn