Thursday, February 14, 2013

ELA & Math Classes Feb 16-April 14, 2013

Small Group classes and one-on-one private options available in Midtown Manhattan and in Forest Hills Queens

contact us at 1(800) 631-1757or email info@KwellerPrep.com

Here is our finalized weekend class schedule and grade by grade breakdown of what to expect on these treacherous exams.

Yes, NYS has officially lost its mind and decided to prepare grades 3 to 8 for college....
 

English Language Arts (ELA) Curriculum

10:00 am to 11:45 am
Vocabulary Building and Grammar
-Learning vocabulary, integrating new vocab into sentences and paragraphs, deriving vocabulary meaning from context
-Learning and practicing grammatical concepts:
  -Verb tenses
  -Subject/verb agreement
  -Parts of speech
  -Complete sentences vs. sentence fragments
  -Adjectives vs. adverbs 
  -Nouns vs. pronouns
  -Antonyms and synonyms
11:45 pm to 12:00 pm
Break
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Reading Comprehension and Critical Reading Strategies and practice exercises
Skills:
-Analyzing central ideas, style elements, character, and plot development, and vocabulary in context
-Finding/using details to draw inferences
Strategies:
-Avoiding “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)
-Finding support for answers in text
-Pre-reading vs. post-reading strategies
-Utilizing process of elimination
-Maximizing both time efficiency & accuracy
1:45 pm to 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Integration of skills- Constructing open responses
-Short answer constructed responses (3 sentences)
-Long answer constructed responses (1-2 paragraphs)
            -Essay writing
-Integrating vocabulary, grammar, and critical reading skills to develop efficient written responses

 

Math Curriculum

 

10:00 am to 11:45
Practice problems and content review – Operations and algebraic thinking, fractions/decimals/percentages, visual fraction models, establishing and continuing number patterns based on given rules
11:45 pm to 12:00 pm
Break
12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Multiple choice math problems, strategies
Strategies:
            -Process of elimination
            -Estimation
            -Plugging in values to ensure correct answer
-Working backwards
            -Checking answers / developing multiple          solutions
1:45 pm to 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Math Open–Response World Problems
Skills:
-Integration of simple concepts to solve word problems
-Articulate mathematical reasoning effectively
-Solving multi-step world problems
-Organizing and solving equations using unknowns denoted by letters
Strategies:
-Underlining key information and variables
-Using keywords in world problems to determine variables
-Identifying unknown variables and creating tables
-Visualizing word problems using diagrams, graphs, and tables
-Applying relevant equations and mathematical strategies to determine answers efficiently and accurately
 

 

*Towards the end of the course, we will modify the schedule to allow for full-length practice tests to recapitulate real test scenario and review responses with relevant strategies.

 

 

New York State English Language Arts Exam

Grade 3

 

“Common Core Reading and Language Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

-Reading:

-Students must read from a range of high-quality, challenging literary and informational texts, including stories, dramas, poems, myths, and articles.

-Writing:

-Students must support opinions in order to demonstrate understanding of the subjects they are studying.

-Students must gear the form and content of their writing toward their audience.

-Students must build knowledge on a subject through research and subsequently analyze literary and informational sources.

-Language:

-Students must understand conventions of English grammar, usage, and mechanics.

-Students must be able to determine the meanings of vocabulary words based on context.

-Students must appreciate words’ non-literal meanings and relationships to other words, thus expanding their vocabulary through studying content.

 

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 3rd grade ELA exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 5 passages and 30 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 1 passage and 7 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 2 passages, 3 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 4

                                    -Format: 3 passages, 5 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Literary Passages: 4-7

                        -Informational Passages: 4-7

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 37

                        -Short-Response Questions: 8

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 2

                        -Testing time: estimated 150 minutes; allowed up to 210          

 

 

Question Types and Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

-Analyze central idea, style elements, character and plot development, and vocabulary

-Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

-Make a claim or draw a conclusion and provide textual evidence as support

-Write in complete sentences (no less or more than 3 complete sentences)

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate comprehension & analysis of a text

-Take a position & demonstrate an ability to support it with text-based details

 

**As of 2013, 3rd Grade ELA will NOT assess Speaking & Listening.**

 


 

New York State Math Exam

Grade 3

 

“Common Core Math Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

Students must:

 

                -Develop an understanding of multiplication and division and master strategies for     multiplication and division within 100

                -Develop an understanding of fractions, particularly unit fractions (fractions with       numerator 1)

                -Develop an understanding of the structure of rectangular figures and of area

                -Develop the ability to describe and analyze two-dimensional shapes

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 3rd grade Math exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 30 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 31 Multiple Choice questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 5 Short-Response and 3 Extended-Response questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 61

                        -Short-Response Questions: 5

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 3

                        -Testing time: estimated 150 minutes; allowed up to 210          

 

Topics Tested & Distribution

 

-Numbers and Operations in Base Tens: 5-15%

-Numbers and Operations (Fractions): 15-25%

-Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 40-50%

-Measurement and Data: 15-25%

-Geometry: 5-15%

 

Question Types and Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate knowledge of standard algorithms and concepts

            -Complete multiple steps and  simultaneously apply multiple skills and concepts

            -Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear             plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

            -Complete a task and show their work

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills & concepts

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Show their work in completing multiple tasks and/or extensive problems

            -Demonstrate understanding of mathematical procedures, conceptual            understanding, and application

                -Demonstrate their reasoning and explain the steps to and logic behind the solution

 

**Students must use rulers and may not use calculators.**

 

 

 

New York State English Language Arts Exam

Grade 4

 

“Common Core English Language Arts Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

-Reading:

-Students must read from a range of high-quality, challenging literary and informational texts, including stories, dramas, poems, myths, and articles.

-Writing:

-Students must support opinions in order to demonstrate understanding of the subjects they are studying.

-Students must gear the form and content of their writing toward their audience.

-Students must build knowledge on a subject through research and subsequently analyze literary and informational sources.

-Language:

-Students must understand conventions of English grammar, usage, and mechanics.

-Students must be able to determine the meanings of vocabulary words based on context.

-Students must appreciate words’ non-literal meanings and relationships to other words, thus expanding their vocabulary through studying content.

 

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 4th grade ELA exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 5 passages and 30 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 1 passage and 7 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 2 passages, 3 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time (total): Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 4

                                    -Format: 3 passages, 5 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Literary Passages: 4-7

                        -Informational Passages: 4-7

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 37

                        -Short-Response Questions: 8

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 2

                        -Testing time: estimated 150 minutes; allowed up to 210          

 

 

Question Types and Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading and Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

-Analyze central idea, style elements, character and plot development, and vocabulary

-Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

-Make a claim or draw a conclusion and provide textual evidence as support

-Write in complete sentences (no less or more than 3 complete sentences)

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate comprehension & analysis of a text

-Take a position & demonstrate an ability to support it with text-based details

 

**As of 2013, 4th Grade ELA will NOT assess Speaking & Listening.**

 

 

New York State Math Exam

Grade 4

 

“Common Core Math Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

Students must:

 

                -Develop an understanding and fluency with multi-digit multiplication

                -Developing understanding of dividing to find quotients involving multi-digit dividends

                -Develop an understanding of fraction equivalence, addition and subtraction of fractions         with like denominators, and multiplication of fractions by whole numbers

                -Develop an understanding of properties of geometric figures such as having parallel                 sides, perpendicular sides, particular angle measures, and symmetry, as well as being             able to analyze and classify figures based on these properties 

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 4th grade Math exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 30 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 32 Multiple Choice questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 70 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 6 Short-Response and 4 Extended-Response questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 62

                        -Short-Response Questions: 6

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 4

                        -Testing time: estimated 170 minutes; allowed up to 230          

 

Topics Tested & Distribution

 

-Numbers and Operations in Base Tens: 20-30%

-Numbers and Operations (Fractions): 20-30%

-Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 15-25%

-Measurement and Data: 15-25%

-Geometry: 5-15%

 

Question Types & Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate knowledge of standard algorithms and concepts

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills and concepts

            -Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear             plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

            -Complete a task and show their work

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills & concepts

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Show their work in completing multiple tasks and/or extensive problems

            -Demonstrate understanding of mathematical procedures, conceptual            understanding, and application

                -Demonstrate their reasoning and explain the steps to and logic behind the solution

 

**Students must use rulers and protractors and may not use calculators.**

 

 

New York State English Language Arts Exam

Grade 5

 

“Common Core English Language Arts Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

-Reading:

-Students must read from a range of high-quality, challenging literary and informational texts, including stories, dramas, poems, myths, and articles.

-Writing:

-Students must support opinions in order to demonstrate understanding of the subjects they are studying.

-Students must gear the form and content of their writing toward their audience.

-Students must build knowledge on a subject through research and subsequently analyze literary and informational sources.

-Language:

-Students must understand conventions of English grammar, usage, and mechanics.

-Students must be able to determine the meanings of vocabulary words based on context.

-Students must appreciate words’ non-literal meanings and relationships to other words, thus expanding their vocabulary through studying content.

 

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 5th grade ELA exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 6 passages and 42 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 3 passages and 21 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 2 passages, 3 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time (total): Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 4

                                    -Format: 3 passages, 5 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Literary Passages: 5-9

                        -Informational Passages: 5-9

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 63

                        -Short-Response Questions: 8

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 2

                        -Testing time: estimated 190 minutes; allowed up to 270          

 

 

Question Types and Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

-Analyze central idea, style elements, character and plot development, and vocabulary

-Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

-Make a claim or draw a conclusion and provide textual evidence as support

-Write in complete sentences (no less or more than 3 complete sentences)

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate comprehension & analysis of a text

-Take a position & demonstrate an ability to support it with text-based details

 

**As of 2013, 5th Grade ELA will NOT assess Speaking & Listening.**

 

 

New York State Math Exam

Grade 5

 

“Common Core Math Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

Students must:

 

                -Develop fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions

                -Developing understanding of multiplication of fractions and of division of fractions in             limited cases (unit fractions divided by whole numbers and whole numbers divided by   unit fractions)

                -Extend division to 2-digit divisors, integrating decimal fractions into the place value                 system and developing understanding of operations with decimals to hundredths

                -Develop fluency with whole number and decimal operations

                -Develop understanding of volume.

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 5th grade Math exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 30 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 32 Multiple Choice questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 6 Short-Response and 4 Extended-Response questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 62

                        -Short-Response Questions: 6

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 4

                        -Testing time: estimated 150 minutes; allowed up to 210          

 

Topics Tested & Distribution

 

-Numbers and Operations in Base Tens: 20-30%

-Numbers and Operations (Fractions): 30-40%

-Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 5-15%

-Measurement and Data: 20-30%

-Geometry: 5-15%

 

Question Types & Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate knowledge of standard algorithms and concepts

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills and concepts

            -Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear             plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

            -Complete a task and show their work

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills & concepts

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Show their work in completing multiple tasks and/or extensive problems

            -Demonstrate understanding of mathematical procedures, conceptual            understanding, and application

                -Demonstrate their reasoning and explain the steps to and logic behind the solution

 

**Students must use rulers and protractors and may not use calculators.**

 

 

New York State English Language Arts Exam

Grade 6

 

“Common Core English Language Arts Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

-Reading:

-Students must read from a range of high-quality, challenging literary and informational texts, including stories, dramas, poems, myths, and articles.

-Students must develop the ability to evaluate intricate arguments.

-Writing:

-Students must deliberately choose words, information, structures and formats based on careful consideration of their audience.

-Students must learn to produce complex and nuanced writing by combining different kinds of writing (e.g.: using narrative strategies within argument and explanation within narrative).

-Students must be able to use technology when creating, refining and collaborating.

-Students must adeptly gather information, evaluate sources, accurately cite material, and report findings from research and analysis of sources in a clear manner.

-Students must attain the flexibility, concentration, and fluency to produce high-quality, first-draft text under a deadline, as well as the ability to revisit and improve writing over multiple drafts when possible.

-Language:

-Students must firmly understand the conventions of English language.

-Students must choose words, syntax, and punctuation to express themselves to achieve particular rhetorical effects.

-Students must build extensive vocabularies through reading and study.

-Students must become skilled in determining meanings of words/phrases from context.

-Students must learn to see individual words as part of a network, thus understanding different connotations.

 

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 6th grade ELA exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 6 passages and 42 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 3 passages and 21 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 2 passages, 3 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time (total): Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 4

                                    -Format: 3 passages, 5 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Literary Passages: 4-7

                        -Informational Passages: 7-10

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 63

                        -Short-Response Questions: 8

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 2

                        -Testing time: estimated 190 minutes; allowed up to 270          

 

 

Question Types & Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

-Analyze central idea, style elements, character and plot development, and vocabulary

-Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

-Make a claim or draw a conclusion and provide textual evidence as support

-Write in complete sentences (no less or more than 3 complete sentences)

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate comprehension & analysis of a text

-Take a position & demonstrate an ability to support it with text-based details

 

**As of 2013, 6th Grade ELA will NOT assess Speaking & Listening.**

 

 

New York State Math Exam

Grade 6

 

“Common Core Math Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

Students must:

 

                -Connect ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and use concepts              of ratio and rate to solve problems

                -Complete understanding of division of fractions and extend the notion of number to the         system of rational numbers, including negative numbers

                -Write, interpret, and use expressions and equations

                -Develop an understanding of statistical thinking

 

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 6th grade Math exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 34 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 34 Multiple Choice questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 6 Short-Response and 4 Extended-Response questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 68

                        -Short-Response Questions: 6

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 4

                        -Testing time: estimated 150 minutes; allowed up to 210          

 

Topics Tested & Distribution

 

-The Number System: 15-25%

-Expressions and Equations: 35-45%

-Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 20-30%

-Geometry: 10-20%

-Statistics and Probability: 0%

 

Question Types & Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate knowledge of standard algorithms and concepts

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills and concepts

            -Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear             plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

            -Complete a task and show their work

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills & concepts

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Show their work in completing multiple tasks and/or extensive problems

            -Demonstrate understanding of mathematical procedures, conceptual            understanding, and application

                -Demonstrate their reasoning and explain the steps to and logic behind the solution

 


**Students must use rulers and protractors for all test sessions. Students must use a four-function or scientific calculator for Book 2 and Book 3. Students may not use a graphing calculator.**

 

Students will receive this detachable reference sheet in all three test books:

 


 

 

 

 

New York State English Language Arts Exam

Grade 7

 

“Common Core English Language Arts Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

-Reading:

-Students must read from a range of high-quality, challenging literary and informational texts, including stories, dramas, poems, myths, and articles.

-Students must develop the ability to evaluate intricate arguments.

-Writing:

-Students must deliberately choose words, information, structures and formats based on careful consideration of their audience.

-Students must learn to produce complex and nuanced writing by combining different kinds of writing (e.g.: using narrative strategies within argument and explanation within narrative).

-Students must be able to use technology when creating, refining and collaborating.

-Students must adeptly gather information, evaluate sources, accurately cite material, and report findings from research and analysis of sources in a clear manner.

-Students must attain the flexibility, concentration, and fluency to produce high-quality, first-draft text under a deadline, as well as the ability to revisit and improve writing over multiple drafts when possible.

-Language:

-Students must firmly understand the conventions of English language.

-Students must choose words, syntax, and punctuation to express themselves to achieve particular rhetorical effects.

-Students must build extensive vocabularies through reading and study.

-Students must become skilled in determining meanings of words/phrases from context.

-Students must learn to see individual words as part of a network, thus understanding different connotations.

 

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 7th grade ELA exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 6 passages and 42 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 3 passages and 21 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 2 passages, 3 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time (total): Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 4

                                    -Format: 3 passages, 5 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Literary Passages: 4-7

                        -Informational Passages: 7-10

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 63

                        -Short-Response Questions: 8

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 2

                        -Testing time: estimated 190 minutes; allowed up to 270          

 

 

Question Types & Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

-Analyze central idea, style elements, character and plot development, and vocabulary

-Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

-Make a claim or draw a conclusion and provide textual evidence as support

-Write in complete sentences (no less or more than 3 complete sentences)

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate comprehension & analysis of a text

-Take a position & demonstrate an ability to support it with text-based details

 

**As of 2013, 7th Grade ELA will NOT assess Speaking & Listening.**

 

 

New York State Math Exam

Grade 7

 

“Common Core Math Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

Students must:

                -Learn to apply proportional relationships

                -Developing an understanding of operations with rational numbers and work with      expressions and linear equations

                -Solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions

                -Work with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area,        surface area, and volume

                -Draw inferences about populations based on samples.

 

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 7th grade Math exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 34 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 34 Multiple Choice questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 6 Short-Response and 4 Extended-Response questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 68

                        -Short-Response Questions: 6

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 4

                        -Testing time: estimated 150 minutes; allowed up to 210          

 

Topics Tested & Distribution

 

-The Number System: 15-25%

-Expressions and Equations: 30-40%

-Ratios and Proportional Relationships: 20-30%

-Geometry: 5-15%

-Statistics and Probability: 10-20%

 

Question Types and Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate knowledge of standard algorithms and concepts

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills and concepts

            -Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear             plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

            -Complete a task and show their work

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills & concepts

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Show their work in completing multiple tasks and/or extensive problems

            -Demonstrate understanding of mathematical procedures, conceptual            understanding, and application

                -Demonstrate their reasoning and explain the steps to and logic behind the solution

 

**Students must use rulers and protractors for all test sessions. Students must use a four-function or scientific calculator for Book 2 and Book 3. Students may not use a graphing calculator.**

 

**Students should learn that pi is an irrational number. In Book 3, students should use the pi key and full display of the calculator. They may not use approximate values of pi such as 3.14, 3.1416, or 22/7.**

 

Students will receive this detachable reference sheet in all three test books:

 


 

New York State English Language Arts Exam

Grade 8

 

“Common Core English Language Arts Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

-Reading:

-Students must read from a range of high-quality, challenging literary and informational texts, including stories, dramas, poems, myths, and articles.

-Students must develop the ability to evaluate intricate arguments.

-Writing:

-Students must deliberately choose words, information, structures and formats based on careful consideration of their audience.

-Students must learn to produce complex and nuanced writing by combining different kinds of writing (e.g.: using narrative strategies within argument and explanation within narrative).

-Students must be able to use technology when creating, refining and collaborating.

-Students must adeptly gather information, evaluate sources, accurately cite material, and report findings from research and analysis of sources in a clear manner.


-Students must attain the flexibility, concentration, and fluency to produce high-quality, first-draft text under a deadline, as well as the ability to revisit and improve writing over multiple drafts when possible.

-Language:

-Students must firmly understand the conventions of English language.

-Students must choose words, syntax, and punctuation to express themselves to achieve particular rhetorical effects.

-Students must build extensive vocabularies through reading and study.

-Students must become skilled in determining meanings of words/phrases from context.

-Students must learn to see individual words as part of a network, thus understanding different connotations.

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 8th grade ELA exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 6 passages and 42 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 3 passages and 21 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 2 passages, 3 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time (total): Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 4

                                    -Format: 3 passages, 5 Short- and 1 Extended-Response

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Literary Passages: 3-8

                        -Informational Passages: 6-11

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 63

                        -Short-Response Questions: 8

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 2

                        -Testing time: estimated 190 minutes; allowed up to 270          

 

Question Types and Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

-Analyze central idea, style elements, character and plot development, and vocabulary

-Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

-Make a claim or draw a conclusion and provide textual evidence as support

-Write in complete sentences (no less or more than 3 complete sentences)

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate comprehension & analysis of a text

-Take a position & demonstrate an ability to support it with text-based details

 

**As of 2013, 8th Grade ELA will NOT assess Speaking & Listening.**

 

 

New York State Math Exam

Grade 8

 

“Common Core Math Standards”

 

The Common Core standards guide students toward building a foundation for “college and career readiness”.

 

Students must:

                -Develop skills in formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including           modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation, and solving linear                 equations and systems of linear equations

                -Grasping the concept of a function and use functions to describe quantitative                relationships

                -Analyze two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity,           and congruence

                -Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.

 

Test Duration and Format

 

-The 8th grade Math exam spans three days:

-Day 1:

            -Book: 1

                        -Format: 34 Multiple Choice questions

                        -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

-Day 2:

            -Book: 2

                                    -Format: 34 Multiple Choice questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 50 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Day 3:

                        -Book: 3

                                    -Format: 6 Short-Response and 4 Extended-Response questions

                                    -Time: Estimated 70 minutes; allowed up to 90 minutes

            -Totals:

                        -Multiple Choice Questions: 68

                        -Short-Response Questions: 6

                        -Extended-Response Questions: 4

                        -Testing time: estimated 150 minutes; allowed up to 210          

 

Topics Tested & Distribution

 

-The Number System: 0%

-Expressions and Equations: 40-45%

-Functions: 20-25%

-Geometry: 25-30%

-Statistics and Probability: 10-15%

 

Question Types and Skills Assessed

 

All question types are designed to assess Common Core Reading & Language Standards.

 

-In Multiple Choice questions, students must:

            -Demonstrate knowledge of standard algorithms and concepts

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills and concepts

            -Avoid “distractor choices”: incorrect responses that, on the surface, appear             plausible (designed to “trick” or mislead students)

 

-In Short-Response questions, students must:

            -Complete a task and show their work

            -Complete multiple steps & simultaneously apply multiple skills & concepts

 

-In Extended-Response questions, students must:

            -Show their work in completing multiple tasks and/or extensive problems

            -Demonstrate understanding of mathematical procedures, conceptual            understanding, and application

                -Demonstrate their reasoning and explain the steps to and logic behind the solution

 

**Students must use rulers and protractors for all test sessions. Students must use a four-function or scientific calculator for Book 2 and Book 3. Students may not use a graphing calculator.**

 

**Students should learn that pi is an irrational number. In Book 3, students should use the pi key and full display of the calculator. They may not use approximate values of pi such as 3.14, 3.1416, or 22/7.**

 

Students will receive this detachable reference sheet in all three test books:

 


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