The current TOEFL Reading section is adaptive and uses Complete the Words, Read in Daily Life, and Read an Academic Passage. ETS lists about 50 items in roughly 30 minutes, although operational timing can vary. Practise context clues, everyday-text navigation, academic evidence, inference, and pacing by task type.
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Learn how to approach TOEFL Reading by question type so you stop rereading whole passages and start finding evidence faster.
TOEFL Reading rewards evidence search, not slow line-by-line reading. Factual questions need a precise sentence. Inference questions need a supported conclusion. Vocabulary questions need context. Sentence insertion needs pronoun and transition logic. Summary questions need the passage structure, not every detail.
A strong review session should label every wrong answer by question type. If most errors are inference and summary, you need structure practice. If most errors are vocabulary and reference, you need sentence-level context practice.
ETS lists about 50 Reading items in roughly 30 minutes for the post–21 January 2026 test. The section is adaptive and operational timing can vary.
Complete the Words, Read in Daily Life, and Read an Academic Passage.
Use grammar, meaning, and surrounding letters together. Read the whole sentence before choosing the missing letters.
Practise each current task type, review the exact evidence for missed answers, build vocabulary in context, and repeat timed sets.