So, our goals today are pretty simple. You're going to be able to identify each question
type in the TOEFL Reading with ease. There are 10 question types, I'm going to go through
them really quickly here and then show you some examples because I learn best through examples,
so I'll just do the same for you guys as well. There are vocabulary questions,
factual information, negative factual information, inference questions, rhetorical purpose questions,
sentence simplification questions, insert text questions, reference questions, prose summary
questions, and fill-in-a-table questions. So, a lot of question types that you really don't want to
learn about, but you have to learn about for this test and so yeah it's a real headache, it's a real
headache to remember these question types. Let's make your life a lot easier, to make it easier
to spot each question type. So, there are going to be eight simple rules. The first rule, now, maybe
these don't sound so simple, but I'll try to make them as simple as possible, the first rule is that
vocabulary and reference choice questions contain few words. A reference question, you probably know
what a vocabulary question is, but a reference question is where they ask you what is his, or her,
or their, or these things refer to. They're not very common questions, but they're very easy to spot. Now,
why are they easy to spot? Because like vocabulary questions, they have very few words, there's
just one word for each choice in vocabulary or just for a phrase as well. Same thing with this
reference question. It says, "The other refers to," and then just a couple of choices. So, these questions
don't look very long, not a lot of words, pretty simple to spot these questions. Second simple
rule is that summary and table questions come last. Table questions are pretty rare, at most you
will see one in a TOEFL test. You'll probably have three summary questions, they are always question
10. These questions are always question 10 in each passage. They'll look something like this; this is
TST Prep's version, it's a little bit different than the actual test, the actual test, it'll
look something like this, but you'll have to choose multiple answers and it's always the last question.
So, that's pretty simple, and this is an example of a table question, and again, it's always the last
question of the passage. The third rule is insert text questions will have these little black
squares. So, in our test, they look like this, on the TOEFL they'll look like this. You have a sentence
and you have to put it in one of those black squares, it's pretty simple for the most part.
That's an insert text question. I'm not going to talk about specific strategies for each of
these question types, we talk about that in our complete courses or in other videos on YouTube.
All right, let's keep going. The next simple rule is that sentence simplification uses the same words
all the time. In other words, the question is always worded the same way. You see how this is written in
question 8. It's always written the same way in every single sentence simplification question.
I'm not going to read this whole thing, but basically, "Which the following best expresses ... "
it's always worded exactly the same. So, if you see this wording, that means it's a sentence
simplification question. Next simple rule. Inference questions include the words infer,
imply or suggest. So, if you see a question with the word infer, for example here. What can be
inferred about Margaret Fuller from the information in paragraph six?
That's an inference question. Negative factual questions include the words not or accept.
So, these questions are kind of tricky because here you're trying to find the wrong answer, which one
is not correct. So, they will have in all capitals the word not or accept. In this example, "Which of
the following is NOT true about Ralph Waldo Emerson". So, just look for those big words, NOT
or ACCEPT in the question. The seventh simple rule is that rhetorical purpose includes the
words why or in order to. These are also called authors purpose questions, this is why the author
wrote or said something. Here's an example. Why does the author say "his romanticism, his
romanticism-influenced ideas". So, why does the author say that? This is different than the last
simple rule, factual information questions. Factual information questions are all the other questions
pretty much. These have a lot of different ways of being written. They say like, "According to the
passage". A lot of times they are what- questions, what, or how, or where, so these wh- questions, not why.
Wy is usually for author's purpose or rhetorical purpose questions. So, these questions, for example
here, "According to paragraph one, what did transcendentalists do?" Or, for example, "What does
the author say about hydroponics in paragraph two?" So, those are factual information questions. There's
a lot of different ways that those are worded. I hope that was clear. You know, this is not about
strategy for answering each question type, that's a little bit more detailed and difficult to explain.
Basically, students, there's a lot of question types, you don't know how to figure them all out,
I just wanted to make it really simple here. And I hope you feel like these eight simple rules will
make it clearer for you or how to answer each question and how to see which type of question
you're dealing with when you're taking the test so yeah. So, I hope you feel like you
are able to, so I hope you feel like you're able to identify each question type. All right, thank you
guys for watching. Please visit us at tstprep.com, and again, you know, be proud of yourself.
So many other things you could be doing besides studying for the TOEFL, but you sat through
to the end of this video. I really appreciate you, I appreciate your time,
and yeah, tstprep.com, we're always here to help. All right, take care guys, see you in the next video.