Strategies for the Summary Question in TOEFL Reading

Summary

في هذا النص المقدم، تحدث كاثي من House of TOEFL عن السؤال الملخص في قسم القراءة في TOEFL IBT، الذي ي trịب نقطتين ويعتبر جزءًا كبيرًا من النتيجة النهائية. تشير كاثي إلى أهمية حل السؤال ال-nine السابقة قبل التعامل مع السؤال الملخص للوصول إلى الإجابة الصحيحة. تنصح بتذكر إجابات الأسئلة السابقة لمساعدتك في الإجابة عن السؤال الملخص. تتحدث أيضًا عن استراتيجيات للتخلص من الأخطاء، مثل تجريد الإجابة الخطأة وتجنب الإجابةات الmutlaqah. تشير إلى أهمية التحقق من النص الأصلي للتأكد من صحة الإجابة المختارة، وتنصح بالعناية في الإجابة لتجنب الأخطاء البسيطة.

Takeaways

• 📚 النص يتحدث عن سؤال الملخص في قسم القراءة في TOEFL IBT.
• 💡 السؤال يستحق نقطتين، مما يجعله جزءًا كبيرًا من النتيجة.
• 📈 يجب أن تتم ممارسة ال-nine questions السابقة قبل التركيز على السؤال الختامي.
• 🔍 ال-nine questions تقدم إشارات حول الأفكار الهامة في النص.
• 👀 عند حل السؤال الختامي، ابدأ بقراءة الجملة البارزة.
• ❌ ابحث أولًا عن الإجابات الخطأة لإزالةها.
• ⚠️ يجب تجنب الإجابات المتطرفة والمقارنة، التي غالبًا ما تكون خاطئة.
• 📝 يجب الحذر من الكلمات المتطابقة مع النص، التي قد تتضمن معان غير مطابقة.
• 🔎 يجب التأكد من عدم وجود مقارنات غير مذكورة في النص.
• 📑 إذا كان هناك مقطع أو جملة في النص لم تضطر للقراءة، فتأكد من أنك تفهمه للإجابة.
• 🤔 إذا كان هناك إجابات مشابهة، يجب أن تكون واحدة فقط صحيحة.

Q & A

ما هي القيمة العظمى لسؤال الملخص في القسم القراءة في TOEFL IBT؟

سؤال الملخص يساوي 2 نقاط، وهو جزء كبير من النتيجة الإجمالية.

لماذا ينصح كاثي ب不做独立地 ممارسة حل السؤال الملخص بدون حل الأسئلة السابقة؟

لأن الأسئلة السابقة توفر أدلة مهمة تشير إلى الأفكار الهامة في النص، وقد يظهر أجوبها كخيارات صحيحة في السؤال الملخص.

ما هي الخطوة الأولى التي يجب إتباعها عند حل السؤال الملخص؟

القراءة الفعلية للجملة البارزة التي تعطيها، التي تشبه عنوانًا يحدد ما هو حوله البيان الأول.

لماذا يفضل كاثي البحث عن الإجابات الخطأة أولاً عند حل السؤال الملخص؟

لأنه يساعد على التخلص من الخيارات الغير مناسبة بسرعة، مما يزيد من فرص النجاح في حل السؤال.

ما هي الطريقة التي ينصح بها كاثي لتحديد الإجابات الخطأة؟

بكتابة الحرف ووضع علامة تقاطعة عليه للتخلص منه، مما يساعد على الحفاظ على الزمن المناسب.

ما هي الأنواع الإخبارية من الإجابات التي يجب الحذر منها عند حل السؤال الملخص؟

يجب الحذر من الإجابات الmutlaqah، والمقارنة، والكلمات التي لم تذكر في النص، والمعنى المقلوب.

ما هي الرسالة الهامة التي يجب ملاحظتها عندما تتعامل مع فقرة لم تضطر للقراءة في النص الأصلي؟

يجب التحقق من الفقرات التي لم تطرح عليها أسئلة لأن ETS قد يستخدمها في السؤال الملخص لل軒 distraction.

ما هي القاعدة التي ينصح بها كاثي عند مواجهة خيارات إجابة متشابهة جدًا؟

لا يمكن أن تكون كلا الخيارين صحيحين، لذا يجب اختيار الخيار الذي يختلف عن الآخر.

لماذا تعتقد كاثي أن التعليمات التي تشير إلى إمكانية إزالة الإجابات الmailboxing الجزئية غير مفيدة؟

لأنها قد تسبب في ال軒 الطالبين، وعدم القدرة على التمييز بين الأفكار الرئيسية والثانوية.

ما هي النص المختصر الذي يمكن أن يحتوي على معلومات كثيرة ويجب عدم ال軒 عنه؟

النص المختصر يمكن أن يحتوي على معلومات كثيرة مكتوبة بكلمات قليلة، مثل الجملة التي تتحدث عن الإمبراطورية الأكبر وفتحه للأسواق الجديدة.

Outlines

00:00

📚 TOEFL 阅读部分的总结题技巧

Kathy 从 House of TOEFL 介绍了 TOEFL IBT 阅读部分的总结题。她强调了总结题的重要性，因为它占总分的两分。她建议学生在练习总结题之前先完成前九个问题，因为这些问题为总结题提供了线索。她还分享了一种策略，即在寻找正确答案之前先排除错误答案，并强调了极端答案和比较通常是错误的。此外，她提醒考生注意那些看似正确但实际上并未在文章中提及的答案。

05:01

🔍 如何识别和排除错误答案

Kathy 继续讨论了在总结题中识别错误答案的技巧。她建议考生注意极端词汇，如 'always'、'never' 等，以及比较词汇，如 'more'、'less' 等。她还警告考生不要仅仅因为答案短就认为它是次要细节而排除它，因为短答案可能包含重要信息。她强调，ETS 有时会在总结题中包含未阅读段落的信息，因此建议考生阅读所有段落。她还指出，如果两个答案非常相似，那么只有一个可能是正确的。

10:01

📧 联系 Kathy 和获取更多资源

视频的最后，Kathy 提供了她的联系方式，并鼓励学生订阅她的频道以获取更多视频。她还提到了自己的书籍，并提供了一个链接。她通过 House of TOEFL 提供帮助，并邀请学生访问她的网站。

Keywords

💡TOEFL IBT

TOEFL IBT هو اختصار لـ Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test، وهو اختبار يستخدم لتقييم قدرة الطلاب على التحدث والكتابة والقراءة وال听话 باللغة الإنجليزية. في الفيديو، يتحدث المقدمة عن النص الوارد في قسم القراءة في TOEFL IBT.

💡Summary Question

Summary Question هو سؤال يتضمن في قسم القراءة في TOEFL IBT حيث يطلب من الطلاب ملخص للنص الكامل. يشدد المقدم في الفيديو على أهمية هذا النوع من الأسئلة نظرًا لقيمة نقطتين في النتيجة النهائية.

💡Clues

في سياق الفيديو، يشير كلمة 'Clues' إلى الإشارات الموجودة في الأسئلة السابقة لنص القراءة التي يمكن استخدامها لمساعدتها في حل Summary Question. توضح المقدمة أن الأسئلة السابقة قد تحتوي على إجابات قد تظهر مجددًا كخيارات صحيحة في Summary Question.

💡Elimination

Elimination هو عملية التخلص من الخيارات الغير صحيحة في Summary Question. تنصح المقدمة بالبحث عن الإجابة الخطأ أولاً للتخلص منها، مما يزيد من فرص النجاح في حل المسألة.

💡Extreme Answers

Extreme Answers هي الإجابة الmutlaqah التي تحتوي على كلمات مثل 'all' أو 'never'. تنصح المقدمة بالتأكد من أن هذه الأنواع من الإجابة غالبًا ما تكون خاطئة، مما يساعد في التخلص منها.

💡Comparisons

Comparisons هي المقارنة بين الأشياء في النص. توضح المقدمة أن الإجابة التي تحتوي على مقارنات عادةً ما تكون خاطئة، مثل 'X أكبر من Y'، مما يجب مراعاة ذلك عند حل Summary Question.

💡Paragraph

في سياق الفيديو، يشير 'Paragraph' إلى الفقرات الموجودة في نص القراءة. تنصح المقدمة بقراءة الفقرة التي لم يتم طرح أسئلة عنها، حيث يمكن أن تحتوي على معلومات مهمة لحل Summary Question.

💡Distraction

Distraction تعني ال事物 أو الأفكار التي تحاول أن تصرف التركيز عن الهدف الصحيح. تشير المقدمة إلى أن ETS قد تضع بعض الفقرات كـ Distraction في Summary Question، لذا يجب التأكد من قراءة كل الفقرات.

💡Minor Details

Minor Details هي التفاصيل البسيطة التي قد تظهر في نص القراءة ولكن ليس لها أهمية كبيرة. توضح المقدمة أن التعليمات في TOEFL قد تشير إلى أن التفاصيل البسيطة قد تكون خاطئة، لكنها تنصح بالتأكد من ذلك قبل التخلص من الإجابة.

💡ETS

ETS هي اختصار لـ Educational Testing Service، وهي المنظمة التي تدير TOEFL. في الفيديو، تتحدث المقدمة عن الحيل التي قد تستخدمها ETS في Summary Question.

💡House of TOEFL

House of TOEFL هي مؤسسة تعليمية تأسست من قبل المقدمة في الفيديو، وت供水 المحتوى التعليمي للطلبة الذين يستعدون لـ TOEFL. تشير المقدمة إلى موقع الويب الخاص بها وعنوان البريد الإلكتروني للتواصل.

Highlights

The summary question in the reading section of the TOEFL IBT is worth two points and is crucial for the score.

Author of a book on the reading section offers strategies for solving the summary question.

It's difficult to solve the summary question without completing the first nine questions.

The first nine questions contain clues about the important ideas of the passage.

Answers to the first nine questions may reappear in the summary question.

Read the bold sentence provided as it gives an overview of the opening statement.

Eliminate incorrect answers first to improve the accuracy of the summary question.

Extreme answers are typically incorrect.

Comparisons in the answers are usually not correct.

Beware of answers that use similar language but are not mentioned in the passage.

Twisted meanings in answers can make them incorrect despite appearing plausible.

ETS may include information from paragraphs not covered by previous questions in the summary.

If two answer choices are similar, one must be incorrect.

Incorrect answers in the summary question are not necessarily minor details.

Short answers can be correct as they may contain dense information.

Author's book on Amazon and contact information provided for further assistance.

Encouragement to subscribe for more TOEFL preparation videos.

Transcripts

hi everyone this is Kathy from House of

TOEFL and today's video is going to be

about the summary question in the

reading section of the TOEFL IBT now I

get a lot of requests to teach the

summary question because it's worth two

points so it's a big chunk of your score

so people always want to know how to

solve it so let's talk about that

question in today's video now as you may

know I wrote a book about the reading

section which you can purchase on Amazon

which I will link in the video

description below but today I want to go

over some strategies for how to solve

this question that is worth two points

now the first thing I want to say is

it's extremely difficult to solve this

question if you haven't done the first

nine questions of course in the real

test this won't be an issue you but a

lot of students come to me and say Kathy

I want to take a lesson and I just want

to study the summary question

to which I reply

well have you seen the Harry Potter

movies and if they say no then I say

well summarize the Harry Potter movies

they say but I can't Kathy I haven't

seen the Harry Potter movies

exactly if you haven't done those nine

questions it's going to be very

difficult to solve the tenth the summary

question so I tell students I cannot

really teach you the summary question if

we haven't done the previous nine

questions it doesn't make sense those

questions are in an order for a reason

so my first tip is don't try to get good

at the summary questions on their own

without doing the first nine questions

the second reason for that is because

there will be Clues along the way those

nine questions actually do contain Clues

they tell you what the important ideas

of the passage are and I have found a

lot of times the answers to the those

questions actually appear as correct

answer Selections in the summary

questions so try to remember the answers

to the questions that you answered as

you go through questions one to nine try

to remember what parts of the text

ETS directed your attention to those May

reappear in the summary now let's say

you've done that you've done the first

nine questions and you get to that

summary question step one is to read the

sentence they give you that's in bold

that is almost like a title it tells you

what the opening statement is about

now the next thing you want to do is

going to seem very counter-intuitive

it's going to seem like the opposite of

what you're used to or accustomed to

it's going to seem strange but what I do

is I look for incorrect answers now that

seems weird Kathy why would you look for

the wrong answers easy so I can

eliminate them because for the first

year or so I was teaching TOEFL when I

got to the summary question in the

reading I was looking for the correct

answers that seemed logical to me but

the problem was I was getting two out of

three correct then when I reversed my

strategy all of a sudden I was starting

to do much better to the point where I

am where I am now as an author of a

reading book and I teach students okay

let's look for the wrong answers now

first of all one will usually pop out as

very obviously wrong it will be off

topic or it will be something you don't

even remember seeing so it's really easy

to eliminate now what I like to do for

this one is actually write down the

letter and put an X through it so if B

is very obviously wrong I'll write down

a b and put a big extra it and then I

don't look at B again this is one of the

very few times I actually use the pencil

and paper during the TOEFL reading

section I don't write down a lot during

the reading section but here I do it

helps me to keep track of the answers

I'm no longer going to look at because

again time is of the essence time is

very important so once you've gotten rid

of an answer you don't want to keep

coming back to that answer

now let's talk about how to identify

those trickier answer choices that look

like they might be right one thing that

you want to look out for of course and

this is true for the entire reading

section is Extreme answers so those will

have things like all Always Forever

never those types of answers are

typically incorrect you should double

check because it's not a hundred percent

of the time but ninety percent of the

time extreme answers are not correct the

other thing you should be aware of is

comparisons those are also usually not

correct that is true for the entire

reading section when I say comparisons I

mean X is bigger than y

uh Z is more important than a uh B is

less significant than D you know these

kinds of things that compare two things

look for as as big as as small as look

for the word then

t-h-a-n that word is a comparative word

those are usually incorrect again not a

hundred percent of the time but ninety

percent of the time if you feel a

comparison is correct that's fine but I

would suggest you go back to the passage

and you check just to be sure because

typically those are not correct

then there will be things that are not

even mentioned in the passage but look

good because they use some of the same

language so if you have a big passage

about raccoons and habitats and the word

woodlands and trees and arboreal and

those types of words the ETS might take

those words put them in an answer choice

but if you actually read that answer

Choice carefully you'll realize that was

not even in the passage at all so beware

of just trying to match words we want to

actually match content not just words

the other thing is of course something

that is a twisted meaning right so it's

twisted in some way for example there

might be a passage that says that the

Alexandria library in Egypt was a

cultural center that spread the Greek

language throughout the Middle East

maybe an answer Choice says Scholars

came to the library in Alexandria to

study the Greek Greek language now that

reverses the fact that okay the language

spread from this Library it reverses it

to Scholars came to the library so that

makes that answer Choice incorrect

um then you're going to have answers

that the ETS just simply makes up it's

not anywhere to be found in the passage

but you do have to be careful because I

have one thing to tell you that's very

important sometimes you might notice

that there's a paragraph or at the very

end a few sentences that you didn't have

to read hmm well ETS has a little trick

and this little trick they do is they

won't ask you to read a paragraph you

don't have to read it at all

so you never answered any questions

about it and then

in the summary

there's actually a question related to

that paragraph you didn't read

so my recommendation to solve that

problem is take note you know I didn't

have to read paragraph four or answer

any questions

better read paragraph four just to make

sure that they're not trying to distract

me because they think I haven't read it

okay

another tip is if there are two answer

choices that are very similar then you

one has to go they will not both be

correct so let's say that there's two

answer choices that both discuss the

importance of religion in ancient Greece

and they both discuss religion but in a

different way well only one of those can

be correct and I found that to be true

in every TOEFL test I've ever taken so

if you have the same topic only one is

correct every answer choice you pick

should be quite different now I have one

more thing to say before I let you go

and that is when you look at the

instructions for the summary question it

says that incorrect answers may be Minor

Details

true that I don't think is true now you

might say but Kathy it's in the

instructions okay fair enough but how

many thousands of reading passages have

I done

that's not really one of their traps

that it's a minor detail they know that

you as the reader are not going to be

able to distinguish a major idea from a

minor idea that was in the passage but

it's minor I mean how would you really

know that you can't read the author's

mind to know what he thinks is major and

minor so what I have found is this idea

in the instructions that you can

eliminate something because it's a minor

idea doesn't really apply but it traps a

lot of my students why because they see

a short sentence and think oh it's short

it just has a few words let's get rid of

it it's a minor idea because it's short

no short answers can actually be correct

because it can be densely packed with

information

like imagine the sentence that

Alexander's Empire opened up new market

economies for art artists and Traders

that continued many centuries after his

death

short sentence but guess what it has a

lot of information packed into just a

few words so don't eliminate something

just because it's short

okay I think I'll leave it at that uh of

course I'm gonna put a link to my book

in the description and you can always

reach out and I'll put my email address

down there House of TOEFL at gmail.com

but I'll put my email address down below

and as always I'm Kathy from House of

TOEFL my website's

www.houseoftofal.com and I look forward

to seeing you next time be sure to

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my videos have a great day good luck on

your test