Test Taking Strategies

TOEFL iBT Reading Comprehension

Test-taking Strategies

I. Overview:

|Length of Each Passage |Number of Passages and Questions |Timing |

|~700 words |3-5 passages, |60-100 minutes |

| |12-14 questions per passage | |

II. Question Types:

|Basic Information and Inferencing Questions |

|Factual Information |3-6 per set |

|Negative Factual Information |0-2 |

|Inference |0-2 |

|Rhetorical Purpose |0-2 |

|Vocabulary |3-5 |

|Reference |0-2 |

|Sentence Simplification |0-1 |

|Insert Text |0-1 |

|Reading to Learn Questions |1 per set |

|Prose Summary |

|Fill in a Table |

III. Strategies:

A. Negative Factual Information:

[A.1]: Over the past 600 years, English has grown from a language of a few speakers to become the dominant language of international communication. English as we know it today emerged around 1350, after having incorporated many elements of French that were introduced following the Norman invasion of 1066. Until the 1600s, English was, for the most part, spoken only in England and had not extended even as far as Wales, Scotland, or...