Wednesday, October 16, 2013

What is Readistep?

A Pathway to the Future

Helping Increase Your College and Career Readiness

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.

How Can Readistep Help You?

Readistep helps you by providing:

Early Indicators of your college readiness

Tools to help improve your skills

Planning for your transition to high school

Resources to help you identify career interests

Information to help your teachers and counselors adjust your courses

What’s on the test? No essays or open-ended questions

Three multiple-choice sections

• Reading Skills:

• Reading Passages and sentence completions

• 40 minutes, 45 questions

• Writing Skills:

• Identifying errors and improving grammar and usage

• 40 minutes, 50 questions

• Math Skills:

• Questions on operations, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability

• 40 minutes, 36 questions TOTAL

• 20 minutes (18 questions) with calculator

• 20 minutes (18 questions) without calculator

Test Structure

Critical Reading

Writing Skills

Math Skills

How Do you Prepare?

No Preparation Necessary

Your best preparation is your interest in learning and challenging yourself with the most rigorous courses available.

Measures your current skills and provides feedback on how you can improve in the future

These test scores are very important because it is the first score that the high school counselors look at when determining your readiness for a particular class.

What Happens on Test Day?

Test Day: Wednesday, October 16, 2013

When the bell rings, report to your assigned testing room (There will be signs posted in the hall all week so check prior to test day to see where to report.)

You will only need pencils and erasers. Backpacks will be stored in the back of the classroom. You will turn off ALL electronic devices and your teacher will hold on to them during testing.

Testing will occur during 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th periods.

After Testing you will report to C Lunch and then go to 5th period.

Test Day: Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Testing Room Procedures

You will only be allowed to have a calculator, pencil and eraser at your desks.

You will only be allowed to use a calculator during the Mathematics Section 3A

You CANNOT work on anything or read anything if you finish a section early. You will sit quietly until the start of the next section.

If you leave the room the time does not stop and you will not get extra time to finish

Test Day: Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Testing Room Procedures

Items prohibited at any time during testing:

Telephones or cell phones

MP3 players/iPod

Watch alarms

Cameras

Dictionaries (including electronic)

Books/Kindles

Papers of any kind

Test Day: Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Helpful Hints

Read all directions

Read all answer choice carefully

Do scratch work in the test books

Work at a steady pace

Bubble your answers as you go (Don’t wait until the end)

Answer all questions

What Happens After the Test?

What Happens After the Test?

Additional Resouces

Things to Remember

Test Day: Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Be on time to your testing room

Bring Pencil and Eraser

Bubble as you go!

DO YOUR BEST!