The bestselling official guide to the TOEFL iBT® test, from ETS, the maker of the test! Now expanded with a fourth authentic TOEFL iBT practice test.
The new Official Guide to the TOEFL® Test is the best, most reliable guide to the test that is used to meet English-language proficiency requirements at more than 10,000 institutions worldwide, including top universities in Australia, Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. This completely updated fifth edition includes real TOEFL test questions for practice, as well as explanations of all four sections of the test. The guide provides learners with information on how to integrate reading, listening, speaking and writing skills in order to construct effective answers that demonstrate university-level English proficiency.
Inside you'll find:
- Hundreds of authentic TOEFL test questions and essay topics from the test maker
- Four authentic TOEFL iBT practice tests (available in the book and on DVD)
- Test-taking strategies to help you do your very best on the test
TOEFL iBT Reading Section
Academic Reading Skills
The Reading section measures your ability to understand university-level academic texts and passages. In many academic settings around the world, students are expected to read and understand information from textbooks and other academic materials written in English. The following are three purposes for academic reading:
Reading to find information
- effectively scanning text for key facts and important information
- increasing reading fluency and rate
Basic comprehension
- the general topic or main idea, major points, important facts and details, vocabulary in context, and pronoun references1
- making inferences2 about what is implied in a passage
Reading to learn
- recognizing the organization and purpose of a passage
- understanding relationships between ideas
- organizing information into a category chart or a summary in order to recall major points and important details
- inferring how ideas throughout the passage connect