What is on the Grade 10 literacy test?

Students read several different types of texts, e.g. blogs, infographics, newspaper or magazine articles, social media feeds, and stories. Students demonstrate that they can analyze and make meaning from the texts by answering a series of selected-response questions.

What is a good score on the Ontario literacy test?

The test is scored out of 400. You must earn 300, or 75%. This is the provincial standard.

Is the Ontario literacy test Cancelled 2021?

The Ministry of Education is restarting the literacy test this year for Grade 10, 11 and non-graduating Grade 12 students. The OSSLT (Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test) remains a graduation requirement for eligible students.

What is the Canadian literacy test?

The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) is a provincial test of literacy (reading and writing) skills students have acquired by Grade 10. Its successful completion is a requirement for graduation. The OSSLT is administered by Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) in the Spring.

Is literacy test hard?

The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) is a standardized test for reading and writing. But while the test might be easy enough for most students who have grown up in Canada and spoken English all their lives, it can be a lot harder to pass if you’re new to the country or have just started to learn English.

How many kids fail Osslt?

Of the 127 142 students who wrote the OSSLT for the first time during the 2016–2017 school year, 81% were successful (102 530) and. 19% were unsuccessful (24 612).

Does Grade 12 have Eqao?

EQAO’s provincial tests assess students’ literacy (reading and writing) and math skills at key points in their kindergarten to Grade 12 education.

Is OSSLT online 2021?

OSSLT will be administered twice in the 2021-2022 school year. Grade 11s and non-graduating Grade 12’s will be writing the OSSLT on both dates November 23 (online session 1) and November 24 (online session 2).

What made literacy tests illegal?

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Is OSSLT Cancelled 2022?

As the literacy graduation requirement for all students graduating during the 2021–2022 school year has been waived, graduating students do not need to take the OSSLT. …