TOEFL Exam Pattern
Each stage is checked separately so one stage cannot inherit another stage's scoring rules.
Reading
Official 2026 pattern| Questions | 30 |
| Total marks | 30 |
| Duration | 30 minutes |
| Negative marking | 0 per wrong answer |
| Sections | Read in Daily Life, Read an Academic Passage |
| Test | Qs | Marks | Min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Read in Daily Life | 15 | 15 | — |
| Read an Academic Passage | 15 | 15 | — |
Timing: Single composite 30-minute timer for both task types combined: no sectional lock. This is a TakeMockTest-defined duration for a fixed practice set, not a replica of the official adaptive router-plus-module timing.
Since 21 January 2026, the official TOEFL iBT Reading section uses a two-stage adaptive design with three task types worth up to 50 scored items across roughly 27-30 minutes: Complete the Words (a vocabulary/word-completion task where you type missing letters, worth about 30 of the 50 items), Read in Daily Life (short practical texts with comprehension questions), and Read an Academic Passage (short academic texts with comprehension questions). Complete the Words is not a multiple-choice format, so it is not included here. This practice mock uses a fixed, non-adaptive set of multiple-choice questions covering only Read in Daily Life and Read an Academic Passage, scored on raw correct count rather than the official 1-6 CEFR-aligned section score.
Official source · checked 14 August 2026