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Negative Fact Questions

When reading a passage, it is critical that you are able to track multiple ideas. The iBT TOEFL will test your
ability to do this with negative fact questions. Instead of picking the single correct answer for a negative fact
question, you will be asked to choose the one statement that doesn’t correctly answer the question.
Typically, there are no more than two negative fact questions per reading passage. Each question is worth
one point.

>> Identifying the Question

Negative fact questions are easy to identify because they always end in the word “EXCEPT.” Look at the
example below:

According to paragraph 4, all of the following are factors that led to World War I
EXCEPT:

>> Solving the Question

• Make sure you carefully read the passage carefully in order to understand the ideas addressed by a
negative fact question. If you clearly grasp the central idea of the paragraph and carefully read the
answer choices, then you should be able to spot the obviously incorrect answer choice in most negative
fact questions.

• Negative fact questions usually require you to remember multiple details about a paragraph’s central
idea, so it may be necessary to scan a paragraph in order to recall key details about this idea. Then go
through a process of elimination and rule out answer choices that you know are correct.

• Occasionally, a negative fact question will be large and address a central idea of the entire passage. In
this case, scanning the passage could take too much time. Instead, make sure you are able to follow the
key ideas of the passage, and you should be able to identify the incorrect answer choice quickly.

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