Common Core Practice Tests

Topics

• Reading: Literature

  • Cite Strong, Thorough Evidence to Support Textual Analysis and Inferences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

  • Analyze a Theme’s Development in Relation to Specific Details and Objectively Summarize a Text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

  • Analyze How Complex Characters Drive a Story: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

  • Determine Figurative and Connotative Word Meanings and Analyze Cumulative Effects of Word Choice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

  • Analyze How Textual Structure, Order of Events, and Timelines Create Meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

  • Analyze the Point of View of a Work of World Literature: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6

  • Analyze a Subject’s Portrayal in Two Media: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

  • Analyze How a Work Uses and Transforms Source Material: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9

  • Read and Comprehend Grade-Appropriate Literary Texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.10

• Reading: Informational Text

  • Cite Strong, Thorough Evidence to Support Textual Analysis and Inferences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1

  • Determine a Main Idea, Analyze Its Development via Details, and Objectively Summarize a Text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2

  • Analyze How an Author Structures and Orders Discussion of Events or Ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.3

  • Determine Figurative, Connotative, and Technical Word Meanings and Analyze Cumulative Effects of Word Choice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.4

  • Analyze How Particular Sections of the Text Develop the Author’s Ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.5

  • Determine Authorial Point of View and Analyze Supporting Rhetoric: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6

  • Analyze the Strength, Reasoning, Validity, and Relevance of Claims While Evaluating Written Arguments: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.8

  • Analyze Key Historical and Literary U.S. Texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.9

  • Read and Comprehend Grade-Appropriate Informational Texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.10

• Language

  • Meanings of Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words and Phrases: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4

    • Use Context Clues to Determine Word Meanings: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.A

    • Use Common Grade-Appropriate Greek or Latin Affixes and Roots to Determine Word Meanings: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.B

    • Verify Preliminary Determinations of Word Meanings: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.D

  • Understand Nuanced Word Meanings and Relationships: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5

    • Interpret Figures of Speech in Context: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5.A

• Reading

  • Key Ideas and Details

    • Identify Setting, Main Idea, and Characters

    • Identify Key Details

  • Craft and Structure

    • Understand Sense Vocabulary

    • Understand Differences Between Types of Texts

    • Identify the Narrator

  • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

    • Compare and Contrast

    • Describe Characters, Setting, and Events

• Common Core Math: Grade 1

  • Operations & Algebraic Thinking

    • Representing and Solving Addition and Subtraction Problems

      • Addition and Subtraction Within 20 to Solve Word Problems: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1

    • Adding and Subtracting Within 20

      • Addition within 20 to Solve Word Problems

      • Subtraction within 20 to Solve Word Problems

      • Knowing How and When to Subtract

      • Understanding the Associative Property

      • Understanding the Commutative Property

    • Subtracting within 20

  • Geometry

    • Reason with Shapes and their Attributes

      • Composing Three-Dimensional Shapes

      • Composing Two-Dimensional Shapes

• Common Core Math: Grade 2

  • Number & Operations in Base Ten

    • Add within 1000

    • Subtract within 1000

  • Operations & Algebraic Thinking

    • Use Addition and Subtraction Within 100 to Solve One- and Two-Step Word Problems: CCSS.Math.Content.2.OA.A.1

      • Using Addition Within 100 to Solve Word Problems

      • Using Subtraction Within 100 to Solve Word Problems

• Common Core Math: Grade 3

  • Operations & Algebraic Thinking

    • Representing and Solving Problems Involving Multiplication and Division

      • Multiply and Divide Within 100 to Solve Word Problems: CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.A.3+2 topics

        • Multiplying Within 100 to Solve Word Problems

        • Dividing Within 100 to Solve Word Problems

  • Number & Operations in Base Ten

    • Understanding Place Value and Properties of Operations for Multi-digit Arithmetic

      • Add and Subtract Within 1000: CCSS.Math.Content.3.NBT.A.2+2 topics

        • Adding Within 1000

        • Subtracting Within 1000

• Arithmetic with Polynomials & Rational Expressions

  • Remainder Theorem: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-APR.B.2

  • Polynomial Identities and Numerical Relationships: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-APR.C.4

  • Using the Binomial Theorem for Expansion: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-APR.C.5

  • Different Forms of Simple Rational Expressions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-APR.D.6

  • Rational Expressions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-APR.D.7

• Reasoning with Equations & Inequalities

  • Solve One Variable Linear Equations and Inequalities: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.B.3

  • Use Completing the Square to Derive the Quadratic Formula: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.B.4a

  • Solve Quadratic Equations by Inspection, Quadratic Formula, Factoring, Completing the Square, and Taking Square Roots: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.B.4b

  • Solve System of Equations Using Substitution: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.C.5

  • Solve Systems of Linear Equations Exactly and Approximately: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.C.6

  • Solve Simple System of Two Variable Linear and Quadratic Equations: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.C.7

  • Matrix Representation of Linear Equations: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.C.8

  • Use Matrix Inverse to Solve System of Linear Equations: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.C.9

  • Plotted Solutions and the Graph of Two Variable Equations: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.D.10

  • Use Graph Points to Approximate Solutions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.D.11

  • Graph Two Variable Linear Equations and System of Linear Equations as a Half Plane: CCSS.Math.Content.HSA-REI.D.12

• Congruence

  • Angle, Circle, Perpendicular and Parallel Lines, and Line Segment Definitions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.A.1

  • Represent and Compare Transformations in the Plane: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.A.2

  • Rotations and Reflections of Rectangles, Parallelograms, Trapezoids, and Regular Polygons: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.A.3

  • Rotation, Reflection, and Transformation Definitions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.A.4

  • Drawing Transformed Figures: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.A.5

    • Draw generalized transformed figures

    • Draw specific transformed figures

  • Transformation and Congruence of Rigid Motions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.B.6

  • Definition of Congruency for Triangles: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.B.7

  • Prove Triangle Theorems: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.C.10

    • Triangle Proofs

  • Prove Parallelogram Theorems: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.C.11

    • Parallelogram Proofs

  • Construct Geometric Figures: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-CO.D.12

    • Construct advanced geometric figures

    • Construct basic geometric figures

  • Explain how the criteria for triangle congruence (ASA, SAS, and SSS) follow from the definition of congruence in terms of rigid motions.

  • Prove Geometric Theorems: Lines and Angles

    • Line and Angle Proofs

    • Line and Angle Understanding and Applications

    • Prove Geometric Theorems: Lines and Angles

  • Use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems and to prove relationships in geometric figures

  • Prove theorems about triangles.

• Similarity, Right Triangles, & Trigonometry

  • AA Criterion using Similarity Transformations: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-SRT.A.3

  • Use Trigonometric Ratios and Pythagorean Theorem to Solve Right Triangles: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-SRT.C.8

  • Prove Laws of Sines and Cosines: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-SRT.D.10

  • Apply Laws of Sines and Cosines: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-SRT.D.11

  • Understand that by similarity, side ratios in right triangles are properties of the angles in the triangle, leading to definitions of trigonometric ratios for acute angles

  • Derive the formula A = 1/2 ab sin(C) for the area of a triangle by drawing an auxiliary line from a vertex perpendicular to the opposite side

• Circles

  • Relationships Between Angles, Radii, Chords, and Diameters of Circles: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-C.A.2

  • Construct Tangent Lines from Outside a Circle: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-C.A.4

  • Arc Length, Radii, Radian, and Sector Similarity and Proportionality: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-C.B.5

• Geometric Measurement & Dimension

  • Cavalieri's Principle: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-GMD.A.2

  • Identify Shapes in 2D Cross-Sections and Rotations in 3D: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-GMD.B.4

• Modeling with Geometry

  • Use Geometric Shapes to Describe Objects: CCSS.Math.Content.HSG-MG.A.1

• The Complex Number System

  • Complex Number Form: CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.1

  • Complex i Relationship and the Commutative, Associative, and Distributive Properties: CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.2

  • Complex Conjugate: CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.3

  • Complex Solutions of Quadratic Equations: CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.C.7

• Interpreting Categorical & Quantitative Data

  • Fit a Linear Function for a Scatter Plot: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-ID.B.6c

  • Compute and Interpret the Correlation Coefficient of a Linear Fit: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-ID.C.8

• Making Inferences & Justifying Conclusions

  • Making Inferences about Population Parameters from Random Sample: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-IC.A.1

  • Simulations for Models: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-IC.A.2

  • Randomization of Sample Surveys, Experiments, and Observational Studies: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-IC.B.3

  • Estimate Population Mean and Margin of Error: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-IC.B.4

  • Compare Two Treatments from Randomized Experiment: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-IC.B.5

  • Evaluate Reports Based on Data: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-IC.B.6

• Conditional Probability & the Rules of Probability

  • Describe Events as Subsets of a Sample Space: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.A.1

  • Independent Events: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.A.2

  • Understand Conditional Probability and Interpreting Independence: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.A.3

  • Two-Way Frequency Tables: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.A.4

  • Explain Conditional Probability and Independence: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.A.5

  • Conditional Probability as Fraction of Outcomes: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.B.6

  • Apply and Interpret the Addition Rule: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.B.7

  • General Multiplication Rule in a Uniform Probability Model: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.B.8

  • Permutations and Combinations of Compound Events: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-CP.B.9

• Using Probability to Make Decisions

  • Assigning Numerical Value to Events in Sample Space and Graph Probability Distribution: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.A.1

  • Expected Value of Random Variable: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.A.2

  • Develop Probability Distribution for Random Variable with Theoretically Probabilities: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.A.3

  • Develop Probability Distribution for Random Variable with Empirically Assigned Probabilities: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.A.4

  • Possible Outcomes by Assigning Probabilities vs. Finding Expected Values: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.B.5

  • Expected Payoff for a Game of Chance: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.B.5a

  • Evaluate and Compare Strategies of Expected Values: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.B.5b

  • Use Probabilities to Make Fair Decisions: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.B.6

  • Probability Concepts to Analyze Decisions and Strategies: CCSS.Math.Content.HSS-MD.B.7