TOEFL Reading - Question Types


TOEFL Reading - Question Types

 There are about 10 types of questions that you could get after each reading passage on the TOEFL. The way to get a high TOEFL Reading score is to become familiar with and master each type of question and to learn how to answer those types of questions correctly. The question types include identifying and recognizing:

- facts and details
- negative facts
- referrents
- vocabulary in context
- inferences
- purpose
- paraphrases
- coherence
- main ideas
- logic of the information

Learning and practicing certain reading and academic strategies can help you succeed on the TOEFL and after the TOEFL. These include: pre-viewing, reading faster, using context, making inferences, skimming, scanning, making connections, summarizing, taking notes and synthesizing,

Improving each of these sub-skills will enable you to get a higher overall score in the reading section.