Test Facts
Multiple Choice Strategies
Writing From Sources
Literary Analysis
You Should Know!
100

This is the number of parts in the ELA Regents.

What is three?

100

This is the FIRST THING you should do in the Multiple Choice section.

What is READ THE QUESTIONS?

100

This is the first thing you should do on section two.

What is find the TOPIC QUestion?

100

This is another word for a Central Idea.

What is a theme?

100

This is the three levels of reading.

What is on the line, between the lines and beyond the lines?

200


This is the amount of time (base amount) you will be given to complete the test.

What is Three Hours?

200

This is also called Road Mapping.

What is reading the questions and preannotating the text?

200

These are the three types of evidence you should look for when reading the texts.

What is negative support, positive support and background information?>

200

These are the two things you need to identify in your literary analysis.

What is a central idea and writing strategy?

200

This is what the letters TIEPAC stand for.

What is Topic Sentence, Introduction of Evidence, Evidence, Paraphrase, Analyze, Connect?

300

This is the highest score you can get on your Argument Essay.

What is 6?

300

The thumb rule is when you do this.

What is read a few lines before and a few lines after the text lines your given.

300

This is a complex claim.

What is the answer to the topic plus two reasons?

300

This is how many paragraphs you should write for part 3.

What is 2 - 3?

300

This is a blanket term for metaphor, simile, hyperbole and personification.

What is figurative language?

400

This is the number of points you get for each MC question.

What is ONE?

400

This is the number of texts you will given to read in this section and the number of questions.

What is 3 and 24?

400

This is the number of quotes and the number of sources you need.

What is 5 quotes and 3 sources?

400

This is a writing strategy you can almost always use.

What is conflict, diction, or imagery?
400

This is what you should do if you get confused.

What is just keep going!

500

This is the date and time of the ELA Regents.

What is Tuesday, June 17th at 9:00

500

These are the two things you should look for when you come across words you don't know.

What is use context clues or roots?

500

This is what the third body paragraph of your essay do.

What is introduce and refute a counterclaim?

500

If the story is about Nature, this is a central idea you can use.

What is Nature is a powerful force?

500

This is Ms Mazz's dog's name.

What is Peter Parker?