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Guarantees
Setup
Scoring
ABCD Strategy
100
You are given 45 minutes to complete this writing task.
What is a Persuasive Essay?
100
This is the only writing genre that you are guaranteed to see on the NJASK exam.
What is the Persuasive Essay?
100
5 paragraphs
What is the total number of paragraphs that your Persuasive Essay should be?
100
6 points
What is the best score you can receive on a written task?
100
To give you a jumping off point in terms of prewriting and organizing your ideas.
What is the purpose of the ABCD Strategy?
200
30 minutes.
What is the number of minutes you are given to complete an explanatory essay AND the number of minutes you are given to complete a speculative piece.
200
Explanatory or Speculative
What are the two genres that you are ONLY guaranteed to see ONE of?
200
The total number of examples/evidence in a Persuasive Essay.
What is 9?
200
Off Topic (OT)
What is the score you receive if you fail to respond to the prompt?
200
The definition of ABCD (or what it stands for).
What is Attack the Prompt, Brainstorm, Choose the Order of Response, and Detect Errors?
300
The number of minutes you should spend prewriting for a writing task.
What is 5 minutes?
300
The only situation in which you (as an individual) are guaranteed an opportunity to stop in the middle of your exam and resume it at a later date.
What is vomiting on your test.
300
The three parts of an introductory paragraph in an Explanatory and Persuasive Essay.
What is a Hook, Bridge, and Thesis?
300
The effective use of an opening and a closing.
What is the first thing that an NJASK scorer looks for in a student's piece?
300
To avoid receiving a score of 1 for "no planning evident" in Content and Organization.
What is the reason you should apply ABC in the preplanning space?
400
Only 1 minute.
The maximum amount of time you should spend Attacking the Prompt.
400
An NJASK scorer is guaranteed to look for this structure in an Explanatory Quote Essay (but NOT in an Explanatory Situational Essay).
What is the use of text to self, text to text, and text to world connections?
400
This genre can have any number of paragraphs, so long as they are logical and coherent with effective transitions.
What is the total number of paragraphs expected in a Speculative piece?
400
The second thing that an NJASK scorer looks for in a student's essay.
What is a logical and coherent transition between 2 body paragraphs.
400
The ONE thing that you must identify before moving onto writing (whether you like to use ABC to do it or not).
What is the genre of writing.
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