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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 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. 5 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 adjust your courses 6 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: – – – – 7 Questions on operations, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability 40 minutes; 36 questions 20 minutes (18 questions) with calculator 20 minutes (18 questions) without calculator Critical Reading Sentence Completion (30%) 8 Passage Based (70%) Writing Skills Improving Sentences (56%) Identifying Sentence Errors (33%) 9 Improving Paragraphs (11%) 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 Your best preparation is your interest in learning and challenging yourself with the most rigorous courses available. ReadiStep™ Measures your current skills and provides feedback on how you can improve in the future. Intended to help you — now and later. 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: • • • • • 14 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. 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- and career-planning tools Tools to improve your skills 16 Additional Resources: 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 Additional Information available at readistep.collegeboard.org 17 18