Description
Do you need a CHSPE English Test Practice PDF Download?
Exam SAM’s CHSPE English Language Arts Book: 575 California High School Proficiency Exam Reading, Language, and Writing Practice Questions can help!
With it, you will learn the skills that you need for all of the types of questions on the actual CHSPE Tests.
What’s included in our CHSPE English Test Practice PDF?
The PDF download is divided into four parts. We provide the table of contents below:
Table of Contents
READING SKILLS
The first part of the publication has 223 reading practice questions on passages from a wide variety of subjects.
It covers all of the different types of texts and all of the reading comprehension skills assessed on the examination.
You will see various kinds of texts and the following types of questions on the reading subtest:
- Initial understanding of the text
- Interpretation of the text
- Critical analysis of the text
- Strategies used in the text
- Words and their synonyms
- Understanding words with more than one meaning
- Determining the meaning of unknown words in context
- Literary, functional, and informational texts
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
Explains the following standard English grammar conventions, aspects of language, and sentence structure on the CHSPE exam:
- Stylistic, punctuation, and capitalization skills
- Parallelism and modifier placement
- Compound and complex sentences
- Idiomatic language and colloquial phrases
- Appropriate style and tone
- Word choice and meaning
- Correct forms of verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and pronouns
- Recognizing and correcting errors in sentence fragments and run-on sentences
There are 255 grammar, vocabulary, and sentence correction exercises.
WRITING SKILLS
The third part of Exam SAM’s CHSPE English Test Practice PDF Download walks you through the essay-writing process.
It explains how to structure your essay and provides sample essays for you to study.
The questions in the writing subtest section cover these skill areas:
- Capitalization
- Punctuation
- Sentence structure and expression
- Pre-writing to make revisions and correction
- How to organize of a piece of writing
After the sample essays, there are five draft essays with 97 essay correction exercises that show you how to overcome common essay-writing mistakes.
ANSWER KEY
There are answers and in-depth explanations for the all of the questions.
Our explanations help you understand why each answer is the correct one and help you gain tips and strategies for the day of your test.
Get a step ahead in your exam preparation with Exam SAM!
Further information
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