Even if you understand the question and know where to look, it may still be challenging to identify which information is essential to help you answer the question. It takes skill to read a question, understand the meaning, identify the key words, and find that information in the passage in less than two minutes. Few people can read the entire passage and answer all of the questions in a given passage in less than 18 minutes. If you have done some TOEFL Reading practice tests already, then you know that time management is an issue for the reading section. “Complete the table below to summarize information about _ in the passage." "Match the appropriate statements to _” Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage." “An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. “In paragraph 2 there is a missing sentence. “Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in paragraph 4?” “In paragraph 6, the author discusses _ in order to…” “What can be inferred from paragraph 5 about…” “Which of the following is NOT mentioned.” “All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 3 EXCEPT…” “The word _ in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to…" Once you dive in and start to answer the questions you will find these short passages to be the exact answer you have been looking for to help you improve your TOEFL Reading skills. Study in short intervals of less than five minutes.This, in turn, will help you quickly identify the question types and TOEFL reading topics you struggle with.īesides providing you with more specific and immediate feedback, here are a few more benefits of using short passages to practice:
When you use these short reading passages, you get more immediate feedback on your responses. When you do a single reading passage and answer 14 questions about it, you are reflecting on the entire experience, a 20-minute reading exercise, instead of a single question. Practice alone is not enough to help you improve, you must also reflect. Improvement comes when you reflect on your answers and identify why you did something wrong. Practicing for the test and replicating the conditions will help you prepare for the format of the TOEFL, but it will not help you increase your reading comprehension or English fluency. You want to read a 700-word passage and answer 14 TOEFL reading questions in less than 20 minutes. If you’re like most students, then you want to practice in a way that looks exactly like the test.
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