1. Wednesday, October 16, 2013

2. What is Readistep?

3. 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 12 th grade.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Test Structure

7. Critical Reading

8. Writing Skills

9. Math Skills

10. 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.  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.

12. What Happens on Test Day?

13. 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 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd and 4 th periods.  After Testing you will report to C Lunch and then go to 5 th period.

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. What Happens After the Test?

19. Additional Resouces

20. 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!