UBSCT

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UBSCT

• Are you ready?
• February 3, 4, and 5

In order to receive a basic high school diploma,
you will need to pass the Utah Basic Skills
Competency Test in Reading, Writing, and Math.
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How many books have you read?
What required books will we read in this class?
Why do we have to read? This isnt a reading
class?
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Reading

• Literal meaning
• Context clues
• Root words
• Infer and synthesize meaning
• Predict
• Identify important information
• Confirm, revise, reject
• Analyze graphics
• Understand functional text
• Scan for relevance
• Confirm ongoing meaning
• Key features of text
• Organization Compare/contrast, cause/effect,
  question/answer, problem/solution, description,
  chronology, and process.

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Reading(Yep, theres more.)

• Comprehend informational text
• Determine accuracy, validity, and reliability
• Know features of myth, essay, poetry, young
  adult, and classic literature
• Elements of literature

Thats just reading. You also need to pass the
two-part writing section.
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Is this class hard?
What will you teach me?
How much homework?
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Writing

• Audience/purpose
• Choice/use of sources
• Supporting ideas
• Main idea, topic sentence, theme
• Organizational patterns
• Text features
• Accurate, valid reliable information
• Analytical assessment ideas, organization,
  voice, sentence fluency, word choice, conventions
• Persuasive
• Narrative
• Descriptive
• Expository

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Writing

• Edit
• Pronoun-antecedent
• Modifiers
• Fragments
• Run-on
• Combined sentences
• Subject-verb
• Adverb
• Possessives
• Tense
• Spelling
• Capitalization, punctuation

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Is this class hard?
What will you teach me?
How much homework?