Toefl exam Essentials

Do not memorize. The reading test does not ask you to have
perfect recall. Instead, it measures your ability to read
carefully and know where to look for specific information.
Look for language clues as you read the passage. Writers
often use one of the following phrases to signal that they
are introducing a fact or example:
one reason is
in one case
specifically
for example
for instance
in particular
Use key words from the question. Questions have two or
three important words that tell you exactly what informa-
tion to look for in the passage. For example, in the ques-
tion How many species of penguins are there worldwide? the
key words are how many, and species. They signal to you to
look for a sentence in the passage that has a number and
the word species.