Reading section question types and strategies shared by TOEFL and IELTS, including inference and main idea identification.
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- What is skimming?
- Reading a passage quickly to get a general sense of its topic and structure
- What is scanning?
- Reading quickly to locate specific information such as a name, date, or number
- How do you find the main idea of a passage?
- Ask what the passage is mostly about as a whole, often summarized in the introduction or first sentence
- What is an inference question asking you to do?
- Draw a conclusion based on information that is implied but not directly stated in the passage
- What is a vocabulary-in-context question?
- A question that asks for the meaning of a word as it is used in the specific passage
- How should you approach a vocabulary-in-context question?
- Reread the sentences before and after the word to determine meaning from context clues
- What is a reference question testing?
- Your ability to identify what a pronoun or phrase refers to earlier in the passage
- What is a negative fact (EXCEPT/NOT) question?
- A question asking you to find the answer choice that is NOT true or NOT mentioned in the passage
- What is the best strategy for a negative fact question?
- Check each answer choice against the passage and eliminate the ones that are confirmed true
- What is a sentence insertion question?
- A question that asks where a given sentence best fits within the passage
- What clue helps solve sentence insertion questions?
- Transition words and pronouns in the sentence that must logically connect to nearby sentences
- What is a paraphrase in reading comprehension?
- Restating the same idea using different words while keeping the original meaning
- Why are correct answers often paraphrased rather than copied word for word?
- To test whether the reader truly understands the meaning rather than just matching text
- What is a prose summary question (TOEFL)?
- A question that asks you to select the main ideas of a passage from a list of options to build a summary
- How many correct choices are typically needed in a TOEFL prose summary question?
- Three out of six answer choices
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