Day 14 — Daily Life + Academic Passage → Reading Simulation
Phase II · Targeted Drills · Reading · Day 14 of 30 · ⏱ ~2 hours
📍 You are here: Day 13 · Complete the Words → Day 14 · Module 2 drills + full Reading Simulation → Day 15 · Listening drills
Today you drill the two Module 2 task types, then put the whole section together in a full adaptive simulation — the first time you experience the routing exactly as the real test delivers it.
🎯 Today's goal: Hit the timing targets on Daily Life and Academic Passage, then complete one full Reading module simulation under test conditions.
✅ You're done when: you've run the simulation start-to-finish, once, without pausing.
⏰ Step 1 — Warm-Up: Purpose vs Detail
Sharpens the one distinction Daily Life questions turn on.
👉 Open the Warm-Up Exercise
3 items · auto-graded.
📖Step 2 — Understand the tasks — Strategies & Sample Tasks
Watch these before you drill (PDF versions available too):
🎥 Read in Daily Life — Strategies & Sample Tasks
📄 Read in Daily Life — Strategies & Sample Tasks
🎥 Read an Academic Passage — Strategies & Sample Tasks
📄 Read an Academic Passage — Strategies & Sample Tasks
📖 Step 3 — Mastering Long Sentences
🎥 Video: Mastering Long Sentences (decoding long sentences in Daily Life & Academic Passage) ·
📄 PDF: Mastering Long Sentences (decoding long sentences in Daily Life & Academic Passage)
🎯 Step 4 — Daily Life + Academic Passage drill · ~40 min
Daily Life: 5 items ≤60s each · Academic Passage: 2 passages, 6 min each
Use fresh material from the "Websites for TOEFL Practice" section (mytoefl.io, FluentPrep, and the Reading practice sets) — pick passages you haven't seen.
🟢 Band 4→5 Read the questions first, then scan. For Daily Life, match the question word (Why → purpose, What → detail).
🔵 Band 5→6 Push accuracy on inference and synonym-trap options — the ones that reuse a word from the text but change the meaning.
🧪 Step 5 — Reading Adaptive Module Simulation · ~45 min
Run a full, timed Reading section: Module 1 (routing) → then Module 2. Do it in one sitting, strict timing, no pausing, no re-listening to your instinct.
⚠️ Treat Module 1 as if your band depends on it — because it does. Aim for high accuracy early to "unlock" the harder Module 2 in your own mind, then push through.
Use a full Reading set from the "Websites for TOEFL Practice" section.
📚 Step 6 — Daily vocabulary
10 new words + review, with spaced repetition (Vocabulary System).
💡 Pro Tips
- Questions before passage — always. Two minutes invested up front saves four minutes of re-reading.
- Daily Life is pragmatic, not academic. Read it the way you'd read a bus-stop notice — fast, for the gist and the action.
- Simulate, don't study. The point of today is doing it under time, not learning new content — build exam stamina.
- Log your simulation weak spot so Day 27's review targets exactly the right task type.
📁 Portfolio Entry — log Day 14
- 📅 Date · ✅ Steps completed (Y/N) · ⏱️ Time spent
- 📊 Warm-up score: ___ / 3
- 🎯 Daily Life accuracy: ___ · Academic Passage accuracy + time: ___ / ___ min
- 🎯 Simulation result + weakest task type: ___
- 🎯 Confidence today (1.0–6.0) · 🏆 One Win + 🤔 One Challenge
📞 Your 2 one-on-one meetings with Hasmik are included — if you haven't booked yet, message us to set the dates.