ENG II STAAR Prep

How much time do you have on your STAAR test?

• 4 hours

• 5 hours

• One full class day

• 3 hours

What percentage is each section of your test worth?

• Essay 50%

  Revision/Editing 24%

  Reading 26%

• Essay 24%

  Revision/Editing 50%

  Reading 26%

• Essay 24%

  Revision/Editing 26%

  Reading 50%

• Essay 33.3%

  Revision/Editing 33.3%

  Reading 33.3%

It is okay and recommended to sleep during the STAAR test.

• True

• False

Select all that apply: What do you need to bring for your STAAR test?

• chromebook charger

• chromebook

• scratch paper

• lunch

What score or above should you have to pass?

• 50%

• 38%

• 60%

• 45%

You can argue both sides on your essay.

• True

• False

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 5?

(5) I assumed that reading a work by Shakespeare would be a tedious task one that was unrelated to my own life and times.

• Change tedious to tedeous

• Insert a comma after task

• Change unrelated to unrelatted

• No change should be made in this sentence.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 12?

(12) Its true that I live thousands of miles and hundreds of years from the setting of Romeo and Juliet.

• Change Its to It’s

• Change thousands to thousand’s

• Insert a comma after miles

• Sentence 12 does not need to be changed.

What is the correct way to write sentence 18?

• Mercutio baits Tybalt. Who calls him names and provokes a fight.

• Mercutio baits Tybalt by calling him names. Which is provoking a fight.

• Mercutio baits Tybalt, calling him names and provoking a fight.

• Mercutio baits Tybalt, he calls him names and provokes a fight.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 23?

(23) What begun as two young men taunting each other ends in tragedy.

• Change begun to began

• Insert a comma after other

• Change tragedy to trajedy

• No change needs to be made in sentence 23.