Language Arts - Reading
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About This Test
The Language Arts - Reading test provides evidence of a candidate's ability to understand, comprehend, interpret, and analyze a variety of reading material. The item pool from which the HiSET test froms will be assembled is 60 percent literary content and 40 percent informational content, as defined by CCSS. We note that this is a closer representation of the CCSS than the current high school equivalency test. In the ETS HiSET program, candidates will be required to read a broad range of high quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts. The selections are presented in multiple genres on subject matter that varies in purpose and style. The selections may take the form of memoirs, essays, biographical sketches, editorials, or poetry. The texts generally range in length from approximately 400 to 600 words.
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Read theory
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Read Theory is a powerful educational tool that offers online reading activities for all ages and ability levels. Using custom web application software and carefully crafted and tested content created by our team, we provide students with a dynamic reading experience that adapts to their individual ability levels and presents them with a seemingly endless array of skill building exercises. What is more, as students continue to use the site and see their scores gradually improve, the system adapts to match their progress, and the materials presented get incrementally more advanced. Our quizzes span the full range, beginning with elementary school reading and ending with the most demanding SAT, ACT, and GRE level reading comprehension and verbal reasoning questions.
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Upon student log-in, the Read Theory system prompts him or her to select a starting reading difficulty level. The Read Theory system then selects a quiz (a passage and questions) at random from the pool of available quizzes at that level. If the student passes a quiz (scores between 70% and 90%), it is never shown to that student again and the student remains at the same level. If the student performs poorly on the quiz (scores below 70%), then the quiz is replaced into the pool of available quizzes and the student's level decreases. If the student performs outstandingly on the quiz (scores 90% or more), then the quiz is never shown to that student again and the student's level increases.
The reading levels are a relative measure designed to approximate U.S. grade school levels, developed by Read Theory to calibrate their reading comprehension lessons in terms of their overall difficulty. If a student is performing above or below his or her associated U.S. grade school level, then this is not necessarily an indication of superior or inferior reading ability. Our difficulty level labels (and analytics presented elsewhere in the site) are to be used as general guides, whereas parents and teachers should serve as ultimate judges of reading skill and ability.
The reading levels are a relative measure designed to approximate U.S. grade school levels, developed by Read Theory to calibrate their reading comprehension lessons in terms of their overall difficulty. If a student is performing above or below his or her associated U.S. grade school level, then this is not necessarily an indication of superior or inferior reading ability. Our difficulty level labels (and analytics presented elsewhere in the site) are to be used as general guides, whereas parents and teachers should serve as ultimate judges of reading skill and ability.