2025 TOEFL Reading Course Syllabus

2025 TOEFL Reading Course Syllabus

Vocabulary Questions

• Types of TOEFL tested words
  • Words with multiple meanings
  • Meanings inferred from the context
  • Meaning inferable from roots and prefixes
  • General academic words
  • Transitional words
• Tested words by parts of speech
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Nouns
  • Verbs
  • Phrases
•  Essential TOEFL Vocabulary: A words
  • B-C words
  • C-D words
  • E-F words
  • G-I words
  • J-N words
  • O-P words
  • R-S words
  • S-W words

Information Questions

• Introduction to TOEFL Information Questions
•  Types of information asked
  • Synonym
  • Restatement
  • General terms
  • Implicit information
  • Logical entailment
  • Causal relationship
  • Synthesis

Negative Information Questions

• Introduction to TOEFL Negative Information Questions
  • Contradicting choice
  • Unmentioned choice

Inference Questions

• Introduction to TOEFL Inference Questions
• Types of inference asked
  • Qualifying words
  • Rephrasing
  • Comparison
  • Deductive inference
  • Causal inference
  • Scientific methodology

Antecedent Questions

• Introduction to TOEFL Antecedent Questions and Personal Pronouns
• Types of pronouns asked
  • Personal pronouns
  • Demonstrative pronouns
  • Relative pronouns
  • Indefinite pronouns

Rhetorical-purpose questions

• Introduction to rhetorical purpose
• Types of TOEFL rhetorical purposes
  • To describe
  • To illustrate
  • To explain
  • To provide evidence
  • To provide an alternative explanation
  • To provide a counterexample
  • To respond to a seeming counterexample
• Organization questions
  • Evidence for a theory
  • Explanation of a phenomenon
  • Refutation of a theory
  • Solution to a problem

Sentence-insertion Questions

• Introduction to TOEFL Sentence Insertion Questions
• Moving ideas from general to specific
  • Definition
  • List
  • Spatial order
•  Moving ideas from old to new
  • Repeated words
  • Demonstrative words
  • Personal pronouns
  • Indefinite pronouns
•  Transitioning logically
  • Addition
  • Contrast
  • Emphasis
  • Inference

Paraphrase Questions

• Introduction to TOEFL Paraphrase Questions
• TOEFL’s way of making long sentences
• Paraphrase methods
•  Relationships among ideas
  • Definition of a term
  • Cause and effect
  • Comparison, contrast or concession
  • Reasons for phenomena

Summary questions

• Introduction to TOEFL Summary Questions
• Eliminate definitely wrong options first
  • Unrelated to the introductory summary sentence
  • Minor details
  • Incorrect qualifying words
  • Incorrect use of general academic terms
  • False statements using critical thinking
  • Two options with inconsistent ideas
• Correct options based on topic sentences
• Fill in a Table Questions

Reading Comprehension skills

• How to read TOEFL passages
• Clue words to pay attention to
  • Transitional words
  • Hedging words
  • Pronouns
  • Punctuation marks
  • TOEFL Passages by academic fields
• Critical thinking skills
• Necessary conditions and sufficient conditions
• Syllogism
• Implicit assumptions
• Types of inductive inference
• Disjunction Elimination for rival hypotheses
• Counterexample and alternative hypothesis
• Design of experiment 
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