TOEFL Reading Course
The first component you will have to do when you sit for the TOEFL iBT exam is the Reading. The Reading Section measures your ability to read and understand academic texts (passages) in English. Reading is a critical skill in academic environment. Students have to read a lot and comprehend the information presented in their textbooks or other reading materials. As we discussed in TOEFL iBT Format Section, three are the main purposes for academic reading in TOEFL iBT:
- Reading to find information
- Basic Reading comprehension
- Reading to learn
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The Reading Section in TOEFL iBT consists of 3-5 texts; each text is about 700 words long. Each Reading text is followed by 12 - 14 questions related to the text. The first passage stands alone for a time of 20 minutes and the 2nd and 3rd passages share a total time of 40 minutes for reading and answering the questions. The system will cut you off right after the time ends. Therefore, you must be not only good at reading but also very fast. To the end of this document we will provide some important guidelines on how to prepare for the TOEFL iBT Reading and how to behave at the reading test in order to improve your final score.
The questions following the reading passages can be classified into ten different types ranging from factual information, pronoun reference and sentence paraphrasing, through vocabulary, rhetorical purpose and inference, on to the construction of “prose summaries” and the filling in of tables.
In addition to the traditional multiple-choice format, questions may require using the computer mouse to mark where additional text could conceivably be inserted within a passage, or to drag answer choices into the correct spots in partially completed classification tables based on information on the passage.
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