TOEFL reading tips for high score felt super generic to me until I started changing how I practiced, not just how much. I was stuck in the low 20s, and the biggest difference was learning to read for structure instead of trying to understand every single word.
What helped me most:
- skim the first sentence of each paragraph and note the main job of that paragraph
- do the easy detail questions first, then come back to inference/vocab
- stop rereading whole passages; force yourself to use the question keywords
- review wrong answers by asking why the correct one is right, not just why yours was wrong
Also, timing got better when I accepted that I do not need a perfect first read. Once I treated the passage like a map, my score jumped from 22 to 28 on practice tests.
If anyone wants, I can share the little note-taking format I used on scrap paper.