Literacy Test Preparation
(OSSLT: March 26, 2015)
Grade 10 Science
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Booklet 1: Section VI: Reading
Pages 16, 17
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Multiple choice answer key for questions 1-6:
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Question 7
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
This question is awarded a mark of 0, 10, 20 or 30.
If the answer space is blank, your writing is illegible or
the response is off topic, the answer will receive a mark
of 0.
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Here’s how marks of 10, 20 and 30 are awarded.
10
The response provides
• only a main idea from the selection OR
• only one or more details from the selection OR
• a main idea with one or more irrelevant details from the selection.
20
The response provides
• a correct main idea and one or more vague details from the selection to
support it. OR
• a vague main idea and one or more specific or vague details from the selection
to support it.
The response often requires the reader to make the connection between the
main idea and supporting
detail(s).
30
The response provides a correct main idea and one or more specific and relevant
details from the
selection to support it.
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Here’s what an answer given a score of 10 looks like:
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Even though this answer appears to be complete because the student uses all of
the lines…
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
…the response only states the main idea. The response does not prove detail to
support the main idea. The response restates the main idea in the final
sentence.
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Here’s what an answer given a score of 30 looks like:
Booklet 2, Section X: Reading
Pages 24, 25, 26
Notice how this response provides both the main idea and details to
support that main idea.
Booklet 1: Section VI: Reading
Pages 16, 17
Booklet 1: Section VI: Reading
Pages 16, 17
Multiple choice answer key for questions 1-6:
There is a new format for this year’s OSSLT Booklets.
Your actual test will look differently than your practice booklet.
For the Ontario Secondary School
Literacy Test (OSSLT), there will
now be a separate Question
Booklet and Answer Booklet for
each assessment session.
Students will now record ALL of their responses—
both multiple choice and open response—in the
Answer Booklet.
Good luck on the OSSLT!