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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
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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
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11:45 pm to 12:00 pm
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Break
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12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
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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
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1:45 pm to 2:00 pm
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Break
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2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
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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
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Math Curriculum
10:00 am to 11:45
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Practice problems and content review – Operations and
algebraic thinking, fractions/decimals/percentages, visual fraction models,
establishing and continuing number patterns based on given rules
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11:45 pm to 12:00 pm
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Break
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12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
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Multiple choice math problems, strategies
Strategies:
-Process
of elimination
-Estimation
-Plugging
in values to ensure correct answer
-Working backwards
-Checking
answers / developing multiple
solutions
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1:45 pm to 2:00 pm
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Break
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2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
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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
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*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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