TOEFL Reading Section - Not/Except Questions

Not/Except Questions

These questions are similar to fact/details question in that you will be ask questions about factual information, however in these questions you will be asked what is NOT the case. These questions are easy to identify since they will say NOT or EXCEPT directly in the question. Ex: All of the following are mentioned in the above passage except… Which of the following is not listed as an influence on jazz music….

Since the questions are very similar to fact/detail questions, the same strategies apply.

How to deal:

1. Find the key idea in the question, if the key ideas are not located in the question, find the key idea(s) of the answers.
2. Scan the passages for the key idea(s)
3. Read relevant sentences very closely
4. Choose the answer with the missing, altered, or contradictory key idea.

Watch out for:

* Correct answers that have been paraphrased with vocabulary that is not in the passage.
* Correct answers that have combined multiple ideas from the passage.

Types of questions you can except.

1) Fact/Detail Questions
2) Not/Except Questions
3) Referent Questions
4) Vocabulary Questions
5) Inference Questions
6) Rhetorical Structure Questions
7) Coherence Questions
8) Paraphrasing Questions
9) Table Completion Questions
10) Prose Summary Questions


Related Articles :


  • TOEFL Reading Section - Prose Summary Questions
  • TOEFL Reading Section - Paraphrasing Questions
  • TOEFL Reading Section - Table Completion Questions
  • TOEFL Reading Section - Rhetorical Structure Questions
  • TOEFL Reading Section
  • TOEFL Reading Section - Inference Questions
  • TOEFL Reading Section - Vocabulary Questions
  • TOEFL Reading Section - Fact/Detail Questions
  • TOEFL Reading Section - Referent Questions
  • TOEFL Reading Section - Coherence Questions

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