Classical Learning Test

​You are required to take notes today. They should include:
The four ways to meet your ELA Reading requirement.
CLT Sections & lengths
Verbal Reasoning question & passage types
Grammar/Writing question & passage types

​Today's Expectations

4
Ways to
pass the ELA
Test:
FAST
SAT
ACT
CLT

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​SAT & ACT Dates

​Notice that you must register to take the SAT 2 weeks prior to the test date. The ACT requires registration 5 weeks before the test.
The CLT will be available to Seniors in September & both Juniors and Seniors in April.
There are 3 opportunities to retake the FAST throughout the year.

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​You can access Mastery Prep through your Blended Learning folder. We are going to explore its features prior to you completing the CLT practice test.

​MasteryPrep & Khan Academy are the online learning platforms that we will be using regularly. You are responsible for accessing these both inside & outside of class to build your testing & literacy skills.

​Online Learning Platforms

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​Classical Learning Test (CLT) Basics

• The exam takes about two hours and twenty minutes, including pre-test instructions and procedures. The three 40-question sections follow the order and timing below:

  • Section 1 – Verbal Reasoning: 40 minutes

    • Section 2 – Grammar/Writing: 35 minutes

    • Section 3 – Quantitative Reasoning: 45 minutes

    • This exam has no essay section.

  There are no breaks during the exam, except for optional one-minute stretch breaks between sections.

​The Verbal Reasoning section of the CLT consists of 40 questions and lasts for 40 minutes.

The Verbal Reasoning section of the CLT presents four reading passages that are each followed by ten corresponding multiple choice questions. The questions following each reading passage will test students’ reading comprehension and textual analysis skills. 

​Verbal Reasoning

​Verbal Reasoning Texts

​Literature: Classic & modern literary prose written by influential authors
Science: Texts exploring genetics, astronomy, physics, biology, & chemistry. They may touch on moral or ethical implications of the work. There will be a chart or graph with the science passage.
Philosophy/Religion: Texts from contemporary or classic sources, touching on issues of truth, reasoning, ethics, & what it means to be human.
Historical/Founding Documents: These are paired passages that present perspectives on an important topic. The first is a historical document drawn from ancient sources, the second is from a writer or time period significant to U.S. history.

​You’ll encounter three types of questions in the comprehension category: questions that assess your understanding of a reading passage as a whole, questions that assess your understanding of the details of a reading passage, and questions that assess your ability to identify relationships between the different reading passages.

You’ll also encounter two types of analysis questions on this section: questions that assess your ability to analyze elements of the passage as a text, such as figurative language, analogies, and cause-effect relationships, and questions that test your ability to interpret evidence presented in the reading passages.

​Verbal Reasoning Questions

​The content areas on this exam section breakdown as follows:

Category	Number of Questions	Concepts Tested
Comprehension	27	Passage as a Whole (8 questions) Passage Details (11 questions) Passage Relationships (8 questions)
Analysis	13	Textual Analysis (8 questions) Interpretation of Evidence (5 questions)

​Verbal Reasoning Questions

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​Analogy Questions

​There will be 2 analogy questions at the end of each set of reading questions. They are designed to see if you can determine the relationship between elements on the text.

For example: labor: exertion:: labor: comforts of life::
A. lives: leisure A. food: crops
B. work: rest B. spinning: bricks
C. rest: business C. success: agriculture
D. play: relaxation D. jobs: money

​Text Evidence Questions

​Every passage set will contain at least one text evidence question. These questions say: "Which lines in the passage provide the best evidence in support of the answer to the previous question?"
Although these questions take time, since you have to go back to the text to review each option, they are valuable because you can get both the previous question & the text evidence question right if you approach both questions together.
Read each evidence option, keeping the PREVIOUS QUESTION in mind. Find the evidence that best answers the previous question, then find the answer that matches the evidence. DO NOT LOOK FOR EVIDENCE TO MATCH YOUR ANSWER. FIND EVIDENCE THAT BEST ANSWERS THE QUESTION!A

​Philosophy/Religion: from contemporary or classic sources, touch on issues of truth, reasoning, ethics, & what it means to be human
Historical Profile: short biographical pieces on important historical figures
Science: texts exploring genetics, astronomy, physics, biology, & chemistry
Modern/Influential Thinker: similar to philosophy texts, but drawn from modern sources & may address issues currently faced by society

​Grammar & Writing Texts

The Grammar/Writing section of the CLT consists of 40 questions and lasts for a total of 35 minutes. You’ll be asked to answer multiple choice questions about four passages. The content areas and question types on this second section of the CLT exam breakdown like this:

Category	Number of Questions	Concepts Tested
Writing	20	Structure (8 questions) Style (8 questions) Word Choice (4 questions)
Grammar	20	Agreement (10 questions) Punctuation and Sentence Structure (10 questions)

 

The questions on this section are broken up into two main content areas: writing and grammar. Writing questions will test your ability to identify and correct errors pertaining to the structure, style, and word choice used in a given passage. Grammar questions will test your ability to identify and correct errors of agreement, punctuation, and sentence structure.

​Grammar/Writing

The remotely proctored CLT is a version of the CLT that students take at home with their own computers. The exam is recorded (not live-proctored) and later reviewed by CLT staff. Due to the nature of the platform and our commitment to ensuring test integrity, familiarity with the test’s rules and requirements is critical to ensuring you have the best possible testing experience. If you are preparing to take the remotely-proctored CLT, please be sure to thoroughly read the pages below.

​​What You Need to Know for the Remotely Proctored CLT

​Time to Try the CLT!

​Today you will take a practice CLT in MasteryPrep. This is a grade that is entirely based on your effort. You will only lose points if you are not on task throughout the testing period.

You must complete the CLT Practice Test to earn credit.

We will be using the insights provided by MasteryPrep to guide your future learning.