Question types and a brief overview of TOEFL Reading Section

1. TOEFL Reading
Question Types
By Rachel Ahreum Hahn
ahreumhahn@chungdahm.com

2. Reading
Question
Types
1 Passage: 5-7 paragraphs
20 minutes per passage
12-14 questions per passage
1. Factual (Detail)
2. Negative Factual (Negative
detail)
3. Reference
4. Vocabulary
5. Inference
6. Sentence
Simplification(Paraphrase)
7. Sentence Insertion
8. Rhetorical Purposes
9. Summarization
Question Types

3. IBT TOEFL OVERVIEW
Section Time Limit Questions Tasks
Reading
60–80
minutes
36–56 questions
Read 3 or 4 passages from academic texts and answer
questions.
Listening
60–90
minutes
34–51 questions
Listen to lectures, classroom discussions and conversations,
then answer questions.
Break 10 minutes — —
Speaking 20 minutes 6 tasks
Express an opinion on a familiar topic; speak based on
reading and listening tasks.
Writing 50 minutes 2 tasks
Write essay responses based on reading and listening tasks;
support an opinion in writing.

4. Not only
reading skills ,
but background
knowledge
Every single subject matters
Science★★★★★
-Biology, space science, botany,
zoology, earth science, chemistry,
physics
Social studies
-All types of history : autobiography,
science, origin of industry….
Literature & philosophy
Archaeology, anthropology
Psychology, behavioral science
etc…

5. How to skill up
reading?
1. Each question types have some
skills to drill out (exceptions
though)
2. Read as many passages,
articles, magazine articles, and
whatever as possible.
3. Skimming & scanning
4. Outlining
5. Answer justification
Get used to Question Types
Read as many as possible
Wise & smart reading

6. So where do we
go from here?
Get smarter, get better score
1. Drill question types each week
2. Review test (we are so forgetful)
3. Getting used to topics
4. Answer Justification
5. Outlining
6. Reading Comprehension
7. ENJOY!