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Step on the Path to Success

Step on the Path to Success. 2013-14. Agenda. What is ReadiStep ™ ? How can ReadiStep help you? What ’ s on the test? How do you prepare? What happens on test day? What happens after the test? Resources and additional information. Step on the Path to Success: What is ReadiStep ™ ?.

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Step on the Path to Success

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  1. Step on the Path to Success 2013-14

  2. Agenda What is ReadiStep™? How can ReadiStep help you? What’s on the test? How do you prepare? What happens on test day? What happens after the test? Resources and additional information

  3. Step on the Path to Success:What is ReadiStep™?

  4. A Pathway to the Future The College Board’s College and Career Readiness Pathway is a series of integrated assessments that help measure your college and career readiness from now through the 12th grade. Helping Increase Your College and Career Readiness

  5. How Can ReadiStep™ Help You? ReadiStep helps you by providing: • Early indicators of yourcollege readiness • Tools to help improveyour skills • Planning for your transitionto high school • Resources to help you identifycareer interests • Information to help your teachers adjust your courses

  6. What’s on the Test? • No essays or open-ended questions • Three multiple-choice sections: Reading Skills: • Reading passages and sentencecompletions • 40 minutes; 45 questions Writing Skills: • Identifying errors and improving grammarand usage • 40 minutes; 50 questions Math Skills: • Questions on operations, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability • 40 minutes; 36 questions • 20 minutes (18 questions) with calculator • 20 minutes (18 questions) without calculator

  7. Critical Reading Sentence Completion (30%) Passage Based (70%)

  8. Writing Skills Improving Paragraphs (11%) Improving Sentences (56%) Identifying Sentence Errors (33%)

  9. Mathematics • Multiple-choice questions covering: • Number and Operations (35%) • Data, Statistics, and Probability (15%) • Geometry and Measurement (25%) • Algebra (25%)

  10. Step on the Path to Success:How Do You Prepare?

  11. No Preparation Necessary • ReadiStep™ • Measures your current skills and provides feedback on how you can improve in the future. • Intended to help you —now and later. Your best preparation is your interest in learning and challenging yourself with the most rigorous courses available.

  12. Step on the Path to Success:What Happens on Test Day?

  13. What Happens on Test Day? • What you need to bring: • No. 2 pencil • Calculator, if available • Helpful hints: • Read all directions. • Read all answer choices carefully. • Do scratch work in the test book. • Work at a steady pace. • Answer all questions—there’s no penalty for guessing.

  14. Step on the Path to Success:What Happens After the Test?

  15. What Happens After the Test? Scores sent to your school in December. You Receive: • Score reports showing performance relative to other students similar to you, and performance on each test question • Online college- andcareer-planning tools • Tools to improve your skills

  16. Additional Resources: Additional Information available atreadistep.collegeboard.org ReadiStep™ helps you take the next step toward college readiness by providing: • MyRoad™ • Helps you explore majors and careers using a free online planning tool • Skills Insight™ • Provides insight into the your skill levels and suggestions for improvement

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