TOEFL Review Class 1

What are the sections in TOEFL iBT?

• Reading

• Listening

• Speaning

• Writing

The reading section has...

• 2 reading, around 700 words each

• 3 readings, around 700 each

• 2 readings, around 600 words each

• 3 readings around 600 words each

How long should you take per question in the reading section?

• Around 1 minute

• Around 1.5 minutes

• Around 2 minutes

• Around 2.5 minutes

It's important to study _______ vocabulary for the TOEFL iBT.

This is NOT a type of question in the reading section.

• Rhetorical Purpose

• Insert Text Question

• Inference

• Gist-Content and Gist-Purpose

Factual information questions have all these characteristics EXCEPT:

• Ask for information inferred from the text

• They focus on the who, what, when, where and why

• Normally asks about the major ideas, supporting details or definitions

A student selected option A in this exercise, why is it wrong?

Answer explanation

Remember Tip 2: Don’t choose it only because it contains words or phrases from the paragraph!

Which of the following is true about human anatomy?

• The word “anatomy” is derived from a French root that means “cut”

• The observation of soldiers’ wounds were originally used to study human anatomy

• Human and animal bodies were dissected in labs to understand human anatomy

• The smaller structures of the human body need to be observed with a telescope

Answer explanation

B is correct because the other 3 options are all untrue – they each contain at least a word that changes its original meaning. The passage states “Human anatomy was first studied by observing the exterior of the body and observing the wounds of soldiers…”. While the words “human anatomy” are mentioned a few times, the answer can be found by searching for other keywords like “soldiers’” and “wounds”.