The TOEFL Reading explained in five
minutes.
We're going to do a lot together in a
very short amount of time.
This is what you're going to learn by
the end. You're going to see how the
TOEFL test will look on the computer,
you're going to be able to identify the
10 question types in the reading,
you're going to learn how the test is
graded, and you're going to find out
about the possible topics you might see
on test day. A lot to learn in a little
bit of time.
Really quick, my name is Josh MacPherson, I
am the head instructor of TST Prep,
an online TOEFL school where our mission
is simple, to help you get the TOEFL
score you need
as quickly and easily as possible. So,
let's do it right now. Let's talk about
the TOEFL Reading section
in just five minutes. So, about the TOEFL.
This is from our Quick Guide.
The TOEFL test was originally designed
to determine whether
or not you're prepared to enter an
American college classroom.
The passages and questions in each
section are a reflection of the type of
material you would encounter in the
first year of university.
So basically, the TOEFL reading passages
are kind of like
the type of reading that you would see
in your first year of college.
So, expect it to be like an academic
passage.
Now, this is a screenshot from ETS
actually, the company that makes the
TOEFL, and this is what a reading passage
will look like.
There will be a timer in the top right,
and there'll be a couple buttons. You can
hit
Next to go to the next question, Back to
go to the previous question, and you can
also
see the number of question you're at at
the top of the screen as well.
In this example here, this is the first
out of 30 questions.
So, August 1st 2019 the TOEFL test
changed a little bit. There are three
passages
in the reading section, 10 questions per
passage, and you have 54 minutes in total
to complete it.
Sometimes you will get what's called an
extended version of the test.
That's when you will have four passages
instead of three.
One of the passages will not count to
your final score.
It's a kind of test passage, you don't
know which one it is, so you have to just
answer all of the questions in all of
the passages
at the best of your ability. And it's
about 700 words per passage.
So, you have to read a lot, 2100 words
3 passages
30 questions, 54 minutes. Time management
will be an issue, it's going to be hard
to manage your time.
Pro Tip here. Be sure to answer all the
Questions.
If you do not answer a question, you will
automatically lose points.
So, you want to make sure that you answer
every single question in the TOEFL
reading.
You can go back to a question from
before,
that's Okay, but make sure you answer all
the questions.
If you leave one blank, if you don't
answer a question,
it will be marked wrong, and you will get
a point deduction.
All right, so the possible topics that
you will see.
Anthropology, art, history, astronomy,
biology, education, environmental science,
geology, history, literature, meteorology,
psychology,
sociology, and zoology. So, a lot of
different academic
topics. Really impossible for you to
prepare for the topic that you'll see on
test day.
You don't know what kind of topic you're
going to get. If you don't know about the
topic,
that's Okay. Again, this
reading passage is here to measure your
English ability,
not your academic knowledge about a
topic, Okay.
so everything is in the passage. Here's a
quote from ETS,
the company that makes the TOEFL. The
passages cover a variety of subjects.
Do not worry if you're unfamiliar with a
topic or passage,
all the information needed to answer the
questions is
in the passages. This is from ETS
themselves.
So, everything you need to know is in the
passage.
Of course, as a person, there will be some
topics that you're stronger at. Maybe,
you're stronger at history
and weaker at biology, but all the
information is in the passages.
Okay, question types. I'm going to just go
briefly through them. There's 10 in total,
the most popular are the first two,
vocabulary and factual information, which
is like a detail question.
There's negative factual information,
inference question, rhetorical purpose.
Inference and rhetorical purpose are
kind of like “why” questions.
There's sentence simplification, where
you have to paraphrase a sentence,
insert text, a reference question is very
rare,
but sometimes it comes, a prose summary,
and fill-in-a-table question.
You can pause this to find out more
about these question types
or you can download our Complete TOEFL
Test, that's free at tstprep.com.
I will leave a link in the description
below. Hopefully by now you guys feel
like you've achieved your objectives to
see how the test
will look on test day, to identify the
10 question types,
you learned how the test is graded, and you
found out about the possible topics.
Thank you guys for watching. Visit
tstprep.com for all of your TOEFL needs.
I appreciate your time and I'll see you
In the next video.