TOEFL Reading Tips and Practice | NOT and EXCEPT Questions

In this lesson, we explain how to answer one kind of question that you may see on the TOEFL Reading section.
The official name of these questions is "Negative Factual Information" questions, but I'm just going to call them NOT and EXCEPT questions, since they will always include the word NOT or EXCEPT in capital letters.
Normally when we answer a question on the TOEFL, the correct answer is provided or implied somewhere in the reading.
NOT and EXCEPT questions are exactly the opposite of this! The correct answer is the one that is not mentioned in the text.
Many students think that makes these questions confusing. But actually these questions are not confusing at all, as long as we know how to approach them in the right way.
How should we approach these questions? It's easy! We want to use a process of elimination We figure out which answer choices are mentioned in the text, and eliminate these. The answer we are left with - the one that isn't mentioned in the text - is the correct one!
That's the basic idea. But we'll go through this step-by-step so you can really master answering these questions.

[@shrawsshrey6976]

Choice “B” i.e Innovation of fertilizers.

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idk if it's my pc's problem, the voice from your channel is very low, and somehow i turn up my volume and the sounds get super loud when clip goes to commercial.

[@jeandedieuamani7873]

I do appreciate the way you explain. clear and interesting video... the answer is B

[@Ali-lf2hl]

thank you so much, Jackie, but don't you think it is hard to do this strategy I have just a minute for each question

[@aemalayar6438]

Very comprehensive strategy to solve the NOT and EXCEPT questions

[@Ali-lf2hl]

Jackie, you are wonderful!

[@manoochehrghanbari822]

First of all thank u so much for the video.secondly the answer of the second question is b .more challenging question such the first one is better however is so helpful.thank u

[@ajittak8886]

The correct answer is B Innovations in Fertilizer.

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I will go with answer choice B.

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The most difficult question for me is essential information. I feel like all the answers are similar to each other. DO YOU HAVE ANY VIDEO THAT EXPLAINS IT?

[@Ali-lf2hl]

Hi Jackie the right choice is B

[@meenadeupala8783]

I will go with choice B i.e Innovation in fertilizer.

[@ericmark6362]

Is the answer is B ?

[@sanjolijain4464]

Thanks for the video. B is the correct answer.

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i will go with B as well

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It's B ...the right answer choice

[@fardeenmaster8349]

Test takers are not supposed to read each paragraph word by word. This will kill the time and is never a good strategy. TO answer such type of questions, the best way is to find the key words in questions and to scan the paragraph to see if they exist or not. This will save your time rather to read the paragraph and then to answer. BTW, the voice is critically low

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Sometimes the whole paragraph is not understandable, even if we use elemenating strategy it will be difficult for one minute to answer

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[@lenyna2000]

answer is B

[@Refunky1980]

The voice is very low

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[@marmali7452]

I think the correct answer is B.

[@sreyaghanta144]

the correct answer is b

[@persistentchallenge9643]

b.

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Answer is B

[@anitadhra]

B

[@karanaulakh8132]

It’s answer is B

[@alisarperozer]

Answer D is correct.Leatherbacks may consume twice of their body weight. There isn't any sentence about jellyfishes consumption.

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b

[@harsh8297]

ANSWER IS B - NOT C BECAUSE AGREEMENT WAS MADE FOR PROECTION OF SEEDS- THEY ARE LINKED

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B is the answer

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Bee

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not useful at all

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B

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B

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B

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B

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B

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B