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Step on the Path to Success
2012-13
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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
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Step on the Path to Success:
What is ReadiStep™?
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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.
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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
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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:
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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%)
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Passage Based (70%)
Writing Skills
Improving Sentences (56%)
Identifying Sentence Errors (33%)
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Improving Paragraphs (11%)
Mathematics
Multiple-choice questions covering:
 Number and Operations (35%)
 Data, Statistics, and Probability (15%)
 Geometry and Measurement (25%)
 Algebra (25%)
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Step on the Path to Success:
How Do You Prepare?
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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.
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Step on the Path to Success:
What Happens on Test Day?
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What Happens on Test Day?
 Helpful hints:
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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?
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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
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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
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