Basic Information
What is a Passing grade on the ELA regents?
What is a College Ready grade on the ELA regents?
Passing= 65+
College Ready= 80+
What is one STRATEGY that can help you when answering MC questions?
Process of Elimination
What is a claim?
What you think (your answer to the question)/ your argument
What two elements MUST the text analysis have?
Central Idea and Literary Device
Which part of the ELA Regents Exam can make or break you (save you or fail you)?
In other words, which part of the ELA Regents should you make sure that you DON'T LEAVE BLANK?
Part 3: Text Analysis
How many MC questions do you need to get right to receive a passing grade?
15 out of 24
How many reasons do you need in your thesis?
At LEAST 2
What is a central idea?
The meaning or lesson from a story.
How many parts are their in an ELA Regents/
How many points are they worth separately and in total?
There parts: MC, Argument, Text Analysis
MC: 24 Points
Argument: 24 points
Text Analysis: 8 points
= 56 points
How many questions are given to each text in the MC portion?
1. 10
2. 4
3. 10
How many texts are you supposed to refer back when stating your evidence?
At LEAST 3 out of the 4 texts
Which is the EASIEST literary device? (When in doubt, you should use this one)
Conflict
You have approximately 3 hours to complete the ELA Regents; How much time will be should you spend on each section of the ELA regents?
Part 1: MC = 60 mins
Part 2: Argument = 90 mins
Part 3: Text Analysis: 30 mins
What do the MC questions focus on?
Reading Comprehension/ Making Meaning
Central Idea
Literary Devices (conflict, setting, characterization, metaphor, simile)
Vocabulary in context
According to Text _, Line _, "..."
What is a strategy you can use for finding the central idea?
The story wave
What's the difference between a Weighted Raw Score, a Scale Score and a Performance Level?
Weighted Raw Score: The total number of points given for correct answer.
Scale Score: The percentage given to you based on your raw score.
Performance Level: Where someone falls on a level 1-5 depending on their scale score.
How many texts are given in the MC portion of the ELA regents?
What are they?
3
Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction
How MUST you follow each quotation?
"This means..."
How must you end your text analysis?
By explaining how the literary device helps illustrate the central idea