New, Killer TOEFL Reading Tricks, Tips, & Strategy from NoteFull

hello everyone this is Joseph from knoefel and I'm really excited to present this video because today we're going to talk about the reading section of the TOEFL and the reason why it's important is because it's a tough section for a lot of students and the way that I want to talk about it is to guide our students who are in our reading programs specifically with complete TOEFL success to help you understand how you want to study the program to really shoot up your score on this section which can be a challenge and in addition help all the students out there who are looking to improve so I want to talk about getting you into the right mindset because a lot of students sometimes don't spend the right energy with strategy and that's where I find a lot of them struggle because they're not mastering it and I think you would if you knew this information so since the TOEFL came out the tests that I'm teaching you 27 million students have walked through and taken the exam in 2010 the average undergraduate student scored an 18 to a 99 230 on the reading the average graduate student applying to of course graduate school got a 21 out of 30 and you know that the TOEFL reading section has a maximum score of 30 points now professionals so individuals applying for pharmacy license and physical therapy licenses average the score of 20 out of 30 so overall all the students taking the exam for different subjects averaged about a 20 out of 30 on the reading so if you want to stand out and for those professionals who usually are required to score 21 at least on the reading section we need strategy because our results show that students who study our strategy when they take the exam score 22 to 24 out of 30 once they've mastered memorized and consistently apply strategy to their actual exams and of course our students go up far more than this but that depends also on improving your vocabulary and also on improving your reading comprehension which comes from practice what strategy alone is going to really push you up and strategy is what helps you to get 30 out of 30 so let's go ahead and begin to learn what that strategy is the first thing is that is all of you listening right now usually talk about timing as one of the major concerns that they have in the reading but timing is really just a choice you have to recognize that you can always be comfortable choosing an answer but you must follow strategy and you must follow timing so the reason why I'm telling you this is because within the program and what you can see in general here is an outline of how much time you should spend on each part of the reading so this is important because if you spend too much time on any one question you're going to hurt yourself for other questions which may be easier so you want to spend the first minute reading the first sentences of each paragraph along with the title to get a general picture of the reading they have a visual image here to help you you know so if you have a title and a breathing with four paragraphs you know the red lines illustrate which sentences you should be reading and you don't want to focus on the entire sentence because sometimes that can be hard to do so you just want to focus on the subject verb and object to get a general picture so that as you read in detail your brain already has knowledge of once you've read the first sentences you want to attack the questions with an appropriate amount of time for each so the first five questions you want to spend on any reading you want to spend 6 minutes and 20 seconds on the next 5 questions you want to spend another 6 minutes and 20 seconds on the last 4 questions you want to spend again 6 minutes and 20 seconds on because these questions tend to be the hardest you know the summary the plug in they're usually in that series so make sure that you follow timing and remember whether you're comfortable or not you have to choose and move on now strategy is incredibly important not to read because it's not a book it's not a novel but to memorize because that's actually your recipe for baking that cake of success and even though it's a little bit of a unique analogy it's absolutely true what happens if you forget an ingredient the cake doesn't turn out the same right the first thing that we're going to talk about is detail strategy we have five steps now what are these five steps of attacking a detail question well first how do you know when you have a detail question usually when you have a question that begins with according to and it asks a wh question like where when why what which that's a detail question just asking you for a fact in the reading the first step is that when you do read the question and identify it as a detail question you want to understand what you're being asked are you being asked why which is a reason or what which is a noun or thing you have to have that understanding so that when you read you're going to have a firm idea of when you actually read the answer the next thing is that you want to identify the key words in the question key words in the question are those specific nouns that you're being asked about for example in this example why are limestone and sandstone aquifers not being refilled limestone is a key word it's a noun and when you see that in the reading it's going to trigger you to understand hey I'm probably going to read the answer so I better pay attention next what you do is you start reading quickly from the beginning of the paragraph whatever paragraph it's telling you about or from where you left off and answering the previous question and you keep reading scanning for the key word so scanning means that you are reading but not with great depth because you want to read for the answer not read for general understanding that's a huge waste of time in the fourth step what you want to do is have a basic understanding of this concept when you find the key word in the reading the sentence that you find the key word in that sentence 60% of the time gives you the answer so it's pretty clear pretty easy sometimes though you have to read a little bit more sometimes the sentence with your key word doesn't have their answer so you have to read one more sentence either after or before and that happens about 30 percent of the time with our analysis on the readings and those are tougher questions because they're asking you to understand more information but this idea of percentages I teach you because I want you to get a firm grip that you're not reading the whole paragraph to answer a detail question that's a mistake and that's going to lead you to the wrong answer every now and then you have some tough questions that require you to read maybe one or two sometimes even the whole paragraph to answer a detail question those are rare and those are hard so you only really get those on more challenging readings so please understand and memorize that so you answer the question in your own head first then what you do in the fifth step is you actually look at the answer choices to identify which answer matches what you said now if you go to the reading section you go to step two this is the part that most of you should a majority of your time on and that's strategy for each question type so we're going to go to the detail section before I do that I want to make sure that we get in the right mindset so what does that mean well essentially if you look here I'm going to give you a couple more details so every reading on the reading section has about 14 questions right on average four to five of those questions are going to be detailed questions so what does that mean that's 32% of those questions or in other words the thirty two percent of your score comes from understanding and mastering the strategy and knowing how to apply it what does that mean that means nine to ten points on your TOEFL which is the highest score you know is 120 so that's a good percent a huge percentage is just knowing this and that's why I decided to make it the focus of the video so that means that for those of you who are looking for 21 in your reading for your professional license or anywhere from a hundred plus for graduate school or anyone else trying to really improve their score overall this is really an effective and powerful lesson for you guys so please review this video and master the strategy in general for those of you who are in the program memorize step two it's tough it's big but you got to memorize it because by doing so you will get those two to four extra points we talked about in the beginning of the video if not more and also don't just memorize it but apply it and remember memorization means I can wake you up in the middle of the night and ask you hey what's the strategy for detail and you just recite those five steps we did earlier so talking about it generally can be a bit confusing but I had to introduce it to you so now what we're going to do is we're going to apply it so this is the first paragraph of the reading from the detail section and this is the actual first question that we're going to look at which is detail the first thing that you want to understand is that you don't read the reading first and then look at the question your strategy is to read the question first and then read the reading to answer the question so the questions appear in the order of the reading so you know question number one you'll see towards the beginning of the reading question number two you'll see a little bit after so it's ordered well so it's easy to follow that strategy is very effective we read this question according to paragraph one what material was used to create the colors of the paint for the paintings you guys don't even know what I'm talking about but you can still tell me that what kind of question is this we have according to so I'm going to put that in bold and we have what a wh question so we're being asked for a fact in the reading that makes this a detail question so what's step one we have to read and understand the question we're being asked what is a material a thing an object now that's what we're looking for the answer to what now we have to read the question and understand what we're being asked and find our key words right so what material was used to create the colors for the paintings there are many key words so it's just the content of the question and the content of the question deals with creating the colors for the painting so I'm going to put that in bold and I'm gonna go ahead and put that in red those are our key words so I begin to read the reading kind of scan it quickly as you read you'll see Reds yellow and brown right paintings are mostly done in reds yellow and brown so you don't even need to know the context of the reading right now to answer this detail question I'm going to put that in bold so that we can easily identify that and again in red because those come from the key word so I'm paying attention and I remember that this 60% of the time has my answer now as I read this sentence I don't read what created the colors I just read that there were colors for these animals so I keep reading right I know that's my next step scientists analyzed the substance of the paint and discovered that the colors came from right colors came from created the colors for the paintings right so this is a continuation of what we read earlier more key words here I put them in red and it is so incredibly clear colors came from ochre and other iron oxides that had been ground into a fine powder so now armed with that I look at my answer choices now here's where the magic is let me explain what I mean by that a variety of iron oxides does that sound good ochre and other iron oxides well if I read intelligently and other that implies that ochre is an iron oxide or else I wouldn't say and other right timmi and other friends so Timmy is a friend right you've got to use our language knowledge there so that basically means a sounds pretty good so I'm going to leave that one alone be tubes made from hollow bone now here's the magic if you read that based on our analysis you're like course not it's a terrible answer but if you didn't use our strategy and you're just stressed and you're reading tubes made from hollow bone is actually right here later on in the reading and reason why that's chosen for the wrong answer is because many students don't follow this kind of strategy they read the whole paragraph and then try to answer the question so they have this information in their brain they're stressed and maybe they choose because they they read it and they just make it make sense to them but B as we can tell is completely incorrect because it has nothing to do with what we said so we're going to go ahead and put that in italics because that's no good now C mammoth bones crushed into a fine powder well I remember reading mammoths because if you guys read the sentence before it says paintings are mostly done in reds yellow and brown and feature such beasts as wild horses Bulls reindeer bison and mammoths so mammoth is mentioned so I'm going to go ahead and put that in bold now the interesting thing about this though is that bones crushed into fine powder well icy ground into fine powder in this sentence right everybody so what this is is another common wrong answer so B is an away wrong answer and I'm going to write this down later and show you guys so what that means is they choose a sentence or an in piece of information far away from your key word to confuse you and that's why I told you guys that percentage in step four remember now C is also tricky because this is another common technique that the TOEFL uses they will take words from the reading from different parts of the reading that have absolutely no connection and create a connection so you get confused because it's tricky and to make it a little bit easier to choose this as a wrong answer they threw in the word bones which doesn't even appear in the reading so this is a mixed answer with added information now let's look at deep ochre and other iron oxide that could not be ground that's going to trick a student who's just reading through the answers stressed for time basically does not analyze the entire question because you guys have to remember that you have to read every word of the answer choice so that you can understand when you're getting extra information that's not correct now this is a common wrong answer because it is negative you have the word not and this actually says had been ground into a fine powder so ochre and other iron oxides that could not be ground if you take away the not D is correct so is a so you'd have two right answers which is of course impossible but they add the word nut and this is a common wrong answer called opposite so now let's go ahead and summarize all of the important things that we learn from our reading review from complete TOEFL success for everybody out there first strategy equals success second timing is a choice so you just have to make the right choice of choosing an answer and moving on under time conditions even when you're uncomfortable for the detail we have five steps memorize and master them next you improve no you're wrong answers and to review for the detail question we learned that we have a way wrong answers that was B we have mixed wrong answers that was C we have added information that makes an answer wrong that was C and we have opposite wrong answers and that was deep now do this for every question type on the TOEFL and finally good luck so if you guys are interested in complete TOEFL success or if you want more free help or videos you know click on the link below if you're on YouTube and make sure that you stay faithful and stay focused because you will jump to the next level so you will be that little fish alright everybody so good luck and I'll see you next time

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Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Tue May 22 2012