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TPS -Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) Free Practice, Tips and Strategies
Free Sites for Practice and Strategies
.The best site to start with is the official EQAO site and from there you can go to look at the sample exams. A more convenient site that has everything available at once at the OSSLT file cabinet. There you will find a huge range of tests used in previous years. From this site you can also access rubrics for writing. The Brampton Centennial Secondary School has a good website for tips put on a series of power point slides on the OSSLT
Tips from TPS
Tip #1 - How to handle Multiple Choice Questions Related to the Organization of the Passage
These questions ask readers to assess how the author has organized a passage. Its not just the structure but the purpose of the author at each stage. Try to think like the author as you are reading.
To handle these questions, it is important to first expect that they will be asked: One should
To handle these questions, it is important to first expect that they will be asked: One should
- Predict as you are reading what plan the author has for the reader
- Think of the general flow of topics from paragraph to paragraph
- Know various organizing structures:
- Look closely at the introduction and conclusion and what their function is: