How can we know that we have dummy passage in Reading Section...Plaese answer me.

**atalati** · 06-01-2012, 05:32 PM

Hi Everyone,

I have a question. Some time we have five passages and from those five passages only three passages will be considered.
So, how can we know that we got dummy passage ?

Please help me.....I have an Exam in very short future.

**TOEFL Corey** · 06-01-2012, 06:37 PM

You no longer can get 5 passages. They are now only giving one extra (or "dummy") passage to students for research purposes.

Unfortunately, you CAN'T know which 3 are graded and which 1 is not -- if students knew that, I doubt very many would spend any time (or effort) at all on the extra passage. They only method I know of that will work at all would be AFTER the test if you ask other students what their 3 reading passages were about -- through a process of elimination you would figure out which of your 4 was the "dummy passage."