Ohio English II exam strategy overview quiz quiz

On computer in two parts, with reading passages and at least one extended-response essay

As a single multiple-choice section only

As a spoken interview

On paper in one session

Easy, medium, hard

Reading Literary Text, Reading Informational Text, and Writing

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry

Spelling, grammar, handwriting

Multi-select is only for writing

Multiple choice has no correct answer

Multiple choice asks for one best answer; multi-select asks for more than one correct answer

They are identical

Part B must select the line that supports your Part A answer; the two must agree

Only Part A is scored

Part B should be the longest line

They can be unrelated

An item with a menu inside the text from which you pick the best option

An item that is always about poetry

An item with no options

An item you answer by writing a paragraph

Skip the hardest items and never return

Spend all the time on reading items and write the essay only if time remains

Reserve a sustained block for the essay and use flag-and-return for hard reading items

Write the essay first without reading the passages

Guess and never review

Skip it permanently

Stall on it until you solve it

Flag it, answer the items you can do quickly, then return to it

It guarantees a perfect score

It tells you what readers reward, so you can write toward the three domains on purpose

It lets you skip reading the passages

It tells you the topic in advance

Four: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum

Three: Pass, Fail, Honors

Five: Limited, Basic, Proficient, Accelerated, Advanced

Two: Below, Above

A perfect score

A scaled score of 600

There is no competency score

A scaled score of 684, which falls in the Basic level

They receive support, retake the test at least once, and may then use an approved alternative

Nothing changes

They cannot graduate

They must repeat the whole school year

Performance levels do not exist

The competency score (684) is the graduation threshold; the five levels describe how fully a student met the standards

The competency score is higher than Advanced

They are the same thing

The format is the real task

The question does not matter

You should never read the passage

The format is just how you respond; the question is always about the passage