Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test - SAMPLE - TEST BOOKLET SESSION 2 - March 2006

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Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test sample test booklet, Session 2 (March 2006), provides pre-writing instructions and guidance for multiple-choice and written responses. It explains how to verify document barcodes and page order, how to record answers on the Student Answer Sheet, and how to write legibly in complete sentences with attention to clarity, organization, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. The booklet includes a writing task on teenagers and world news, time allocation, and practice multiple-choice questions covering reading, sentence selection, and punctuation.

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Reading Time50 min

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Sample Test Booklet Session 2

Writing a Series of Paragraphs

Multiple-Choice (Record Answers on Student Answer Sheet)

Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test SAMPLE TEST BOOKLET SESSION 2 March 2006 1200W Read carefully before writing the test: • Check the barcodes of your three documents to see that the last twelve digits all match. If they do not, report the mismatch to the teacher in charge. • Check the pages of this Test Booklet to see that they are in order. If they are not, report the problem to the teacher in charge. • Read all instructions before responding to the questions. Multiple-Choice • Choose the best or most correct answer for each question. • You must record your multiple-choice answers on the Student Answer Sheet. Multiple-choice answers recorded in the Test Booklet will not be scored. To indicate your answer, use blue or black ink to ﬁll in the circle completely. Like this: Not like this: • If you ﬁll in more than one circle for a question, the question will be scored incorrect. • If you wish to change one of your answers, put an X through the incorrect answer and ﬁll in the circle for the correct answer, as shown below. In this example, C would be considered your ﬁnal answer. D Written Answers • For all questions that ask for a written answer, write legibly and in complete sentences on the lined space provided in the Test Booklet. • In your written answers, pay attention to clarity, organization, spelling, grammar and punctuation. • The lined space provided for your written work indicates the approximate length of the writing expected. • There is space in the Test Booklet for rough notes. Nothing you write in these spaces will be scored. You are now ready to start Test Booklet: Session 2. Allotted time: 75 minutes. Remember to record all your multiple-choice answers on the Student Answer Sheet. Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test Session 2 Writing a Series of Paragraphs 1 Task: Write a series of paragraphs (a minimum of three) expressing an opinion on the topic below. Develop your main idea with supporting details (proof, facts, examples, etc.) . Purpose and Audience: an adult who is interested in your opinion Topic: Is it important for teenagers to pay attention to world news? Length: The lined space provided for your written work indicates the approximate length of the writing expected. Rough Notes Use the space below for rough notes. Nothing you write in this space will be scored. Write your series of paragraphs on the lines provided on the following two pages. 2 Sample Test Booklet Continue writing your opinion piece on the next page. Sample Test Booklet 3 End of Section H. Continue to Section I. 4 Sample Test Booklet Multiple-Choice (Record the best or most correct answer on the Student Answer Sheet.) 1 Choose the option that best combines all the information in the boldfaced sentences. Hard Times is a novel. It was written by Charles Dickens. Hard Times is about Victorian England. A Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times in England. B Hard Times is a novel about Victorian England. C Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times, a novel about Victorian England. D Charles Dickens wrote novels about England, and Hard Times is one of the novels he wrote. 2 Choose the correct option to ﬁll in the blank. Many travellers have to drive a bridge on their vacation. F over G down H outside J through 3 .Choose the sentence that does not belong in the paragraph. (1) Wayne Gretzky’s early career foretells what an amazing hockey player he was to become. (2) At ten, while playing in a league with boys four years older, he scored 378 goals in 85 games. (3) This was 238 more goals than the boy who came second. (4) At 18, Gretzky scored 46 goals as an Edmonton Oiler and won the National Hockey League Rookie of the Year award. (5) The Wayne Gretzky Foundation Golf Classic raises over $120 000 a year for youth in sports. A Sentence 2 B Sentence 3 C Sentence 4 D Sentence 5 4 Choose the sentence that has correct punctuat

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How should multiple-choice answers be recorded for scoring?

Use blue or black ink to fill in the circle completely on the Student Answer Sheet. Answers recorded in the Test Booklet are not scored, and filling more than one circle makes the answer incorrect.

What should students do when changing a multiple-choice answer?

Put an X through the incorrect answer and fill in the circle for the correct answer, as shown in the example. The final marked option is considered the answer.

What is the writing task in this booklet?

Write a series of paragraphs (minimum three) expressing an opinion on whether it is important for teenagers to pay attention to world news, developing the main idea with supporting details.

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