The MAP Growth Test for 9th-12th grade students is an assessment designed to measure academic ability on a scale that compares them to students both within and outside their age group. Thus, it has become a great tool for spotting exceptional academic talents and abilities. High MAP scores could lead to many open doors in the future.
The Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Growth by NWEA is an adaptive K-12 assessment aligned with Common Core standards, focusing on math, reading, language usage, and science. Each test features 40-43 questions without time limits, adjusting in difficulty based on responses to accurately measure students' knowledge levels.
Beyond tracking academic progress, the MAP Growth is also used as an entrance exam by some programs.
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The following are sample questions for the math, reading, and language usage tests, taken from our MAP 9-12 PrepPack. We have divided the questions across the various subjects and approximate grade levels, though a high schooler of any age could receive questions resembling any of these examples on the test.
Based on the images' given data, what is the perimeter of Triangle a (on the left)?
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The correct answer is (B).
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X+3Y=6
2X+Y=7
Which of the following coordinates represents the solution to the system of equations?
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The correct answer is (A).
George sells cars for a monthly wage of 2,000 dollars, plus a 1% commission on his total sales. He also needs to pay a 15% income tax on his total wage.
Which equation represents George's monthly income after taxes (I), and based on his sales (s)?
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The correct answer is (B).
Inside a box are ten balls of different colors: three yellow, five green, and two red.
Three balls are chosen randomly from the box without replacement.
What is the probability that none of them is yellow?
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The correct answer is (A).
7÷10 (number of non-yellow balls ÷ total number of balls)
6÷9=2÷3
5÷8
(7÷10)x(2÷3)x(5÷8)=(7x2x5)÷(10x3x8)=70÷240=7÷24
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Read the following passage from Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, and answer the relevant question on the right:
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom’s eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so. He remembered that there was company at the pump. […]
He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work. Ben Rogers hove in sight presently—the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading. Ben’s gait was the hop-skip-and-jump—proof enough that his heart was light and his anticipations high. He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. […]
[Ben said,] “Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?”
Tom wheeled suddenly and said:
“Why, it’s you, Ben! I warn’t noticing.”
“Say—I’m going in a-swimming, I am. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work—wouldn’t you? Course you would!”
Which of the following is a plot point that is advanced by dialogue in the passage?
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The correct answer is B.
A plot point is something that happens in the story. Dialogue refers to the words spoken between two characters. Plot points are advanced by dialogue when the reader is informed that these things happened, not by a narrator saying that they did, but from the conversations that the characters have. The reader learns that Ben taunts Tom when Ben says to him, “Say—I’m going in a-swimming, I am. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work—wouldn’t you? Course you would!״ In other words, the plot point of Ben taunting Tom is advanced by the reader reading what Ben said tauntingly to Tom, not by a narrator saying that Ben taunted Tom.
A is incorrect because the narrator tells us that Tom was whitewashing the fence; we do not learn this from dialogue.
C is incorrect because Ben does not actually go swimming in the passage. We learn from dialogue that Ben was planning to go swimming, or at least that Ben told Tom that he was going swimming, but we do not ever learn from the passage if Ben does indeed go swimming.
D is incorrect because the development of Tom’s character is not a plot point. Tom’s character may be developed in the dialogue, but this is not something that happens in the story, but rather a separate literary element, so this cannot be the correct answer.
Read the passage and answer the question:
How often do we see everyday objects around us and ask ourselves who invented them? One such invention is the flat-bottomed paper bag, which people nowadays take for granted, but in the 1860s it was completely unheard of.
Margaret Eloise Knight was born in Maine in 1838. Her family moved to New Hampshire after her father's death, and Margaret and her siblings had to leave school at a young age to work at a cotton mill. When she was twelve years old, Knight witnessed an accident at the mill in which a worker was injured by one of the machines. A few weeks later she had developed a safety device for those machines, which was adopted by mills around the city.
Knight moved to Massachusetts in 1867 and began to work for the Columbia Paper Bag Company. The following year she invented and built a machine that was able to fold and glue paper to make flat-bottomed paper bags. The design of the machine was stolen from her by a man who was present when her machine was being built, and he patented the device as his own. This meant that Knight would not receive royalties from her invention. She filed a lawsuit against him and won, making her the first woman to be awarded a U.S. patent. She later established the Eastern Paper Bag Co. and went on to hold 86 more patents, including lid removing pliers, a window frame and sash, and several devices related to rotary engines.
Knight never married, and died in 1914. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006, and several of her inventions, especially the paper bag, are still in wide use around the world today.
What type of text is this passage considered?
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The correct answer is D.
A biography is a text that describes someone's life in the third person. It usually includes details such as time and place of birth, education, work, family life, and either time of death or current whereabouts. The passage gives the readers these details, and it is written in the third person. Therefore, it is a biography.
Answer A is incorrect because a memoir usually covers one specific aspect of the author’s life, or one period of time, while the passage above focuses on the chronology of Knight's life. A memoir is also typically written in the first person.
Answer B is incorrect because an autobiography is written by the author in the first person, while the passage is written in the third person.
Answer C is incorrect because fiction is an imaginary story, but the above passage does not appear to be imaginary, as it refers to real date and events, and explains how everyday objects were invented.
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The Walt Disney Company is known for dominating the entertainment industry in the past and present from its classic hits to its modern expansions. It may therefore be hard to believe that the juggernaut of animation that we all know and love almost closed down its animation division entirely, not so long ago. Disney had become very unpopular in the 1980s and the company struggled to produce films that measured up to a fraction of the glory that their predecessors held. That is why the movies that it produced between 1989 and 1999 became known as the Disney Renaissance; as the word renaissance implies, these movies literally rebirthed Disney animation.
What is the connotation of the word “Juggernaut” as it is used in the opening paragraph of the passage?
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The correct answer is B. “Juggernaut” is a word that has meant different things in its history and has different connotations in different contexts even nowadays. In American English, it is generally used to refer to something immensely powerful that crushes whatever is in its way, literally or figuratively. It can have a negative or positive connotation, and its definition can be applied loosely. In this passage, it is clearly a positive connotation. The implication seems to be that Disney is big and powerful, likely in size and influence based on what is known about the organization. It would not fit the context to imply that Disney crushes anything physically, so it is likely referring to the fact that Disney surpasses its competition in popularity and influence. Even though this answer choice uses the definition very loosely, it is clearly the correct usage based on the context.Option A is incorrect because the author does not mean to imply that Disney is crushing anything.Option C is incorrect because the context does not suggest that Disney is smothering anybody financially.Option D is incorrect because this is not a connotation of the word “juggernaut.” The connotation must be pointing to Disney’s size and/or power, not the fact that it does its job well and satisfies audiences.
Read the following two sentences and determine the definition of the underlined word that appears in both of them:
The man had grown very reclusive in his old age, leaving his house only to get the paper in the morning.
George was so used to his reclusive behavior over the last five years that he found it odd and even difficult to talk to people at the party.
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The correct answer is B. “Reclusive” is an adjective that describes a tendency to seclude oneself from others or from society. This can be understood from the context of the sentences as the old man rarely left his house because he had become reclusive, and George found it odd and difficult to speak to people after avoiding doing so for five years, which is described as “his reclusive behavior.”All of the other answer choices can be eliminated by studying the details of the two sentences. The context only implies something about their behavior itself, not about any particular motive or reason behind it. Unlike option B, the other answer choices claim that the word implies the reasons behind their behavior, and at these reasons do not fit with the context of at least one of the two sentences:Option A can be eliminated because it does not fit the context of the second sentence. A word that means weak and physically depleted can only describe physical things, and the second sentences uses it to describe behavior. Additionally, being used to a weak or weary condition (as the sentence states that George is according to option A) would not likely be a reason why it was strange or difficult to talk to people at a party.Option C can be eliminated because it does not make much sense in the context of the first sentence. Being an elitist would not likely prevent someone from leaving their house apart from getting the paper in the morning.Option D can be eliminated because it does not fit very well in the first sentence. Having a tendency to avoid events would not confine one to his house, as he could leave his house for other things that are not events, such as grocery shopping or visiting a friend.Option E is incorrect because it does not fit into the context of the second sentence. If George were afraid of the outdoors, that would not cause him to avoid parties for five years, as they often take place indoors, and it certainly would not prevent him from socializing at all because that can easily be done indoors.
Read the following sentence and choose the correct spelling for each word in the brackets:
The movie was [incredable/incredible] and it had a very [sensable/sensible] morale.
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The correct answer is B - “incredible/sensible.” These are both words that end with the suffix “ible” and not “able.”These suffixes (“able” and “ible”) mean the same thing, as they both refer to the ability to do something. Sometimes one is used, and other times the other is used. The general guideline is that when this suffix is added to a complete word (such as remark), you write “able” (to form the word remarkable), and when this suffix is used in forming a word with other affixes and Latin roots (such as impossible), or when you need to remove a vowel at the end of the word before adding it (such as reversible), you write “ible.”“Incred” is not a complete word, so “ible” is added, and not “able.” “Sense” is a word, but the “e” is removed before the suffix is added, so you write “ible” instead of “able” as well.Tip: To determine if a word is more likely to end in “able” or “ible,” check to see if when you remove the suffix, you are left with a complete word or not.Note: There are other more complicated rules in addition to this one that determine whether the suffix is “able” or “ible,” as well as exceptions to the rule, so you cannot rely on this completely to determine the correct answer, but rather it can only serve as a general guide.
Some members of my extended family were selected to speak at the party, including ________.
Which of the following options completes the sentence properly?
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The correct answer is B. “my mom and me.”“I” is always used as a subject, and “me” is always used as an object. Whenever there are nouns in relation to a verb, the subject is the noun that does the verb, and the object is the noun that the verb is done to. In this sentence, the ones that did the selecting (even though they are not mentioned) would be the subject, and the ones that were selected are the object. The narrator and his mother were selected, so the word “me” is used, not “I.” When referring to one’s own self along with another, whether as the subject or the object (“I” or “me”), the other is always listed first. These two factors leave us with B as the only option.
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It would be nice of you to clean after yourself once in a while, Daryl, you always leave your room a total mess.
Which of the following is true about the sentence on the left?
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The correct answers are B and C. Option B is correct as the sentence is comprised of two independent clauses. The clause up until the second comma (It would be nice of you to clean after yourself once in a while, Daryl) and the clause after the second comma (you always leave your room a total mess) can each stand alone as complete sentences. Option C is correct. Since the clauses are independent and there is no conjunction or semicolon that is connecting them properly into two parts of the same sentence (only a comma, which is not good enough to connect complete thoughts), the result is a run-on sentence. A run-on sentence is defined as two independent clauses, or complete thoughts, that are improperly joined together in a single sentence. Option A is incorrect as both clauses are independent. A subordinate clause is one that cannot stand alone as a sentence, and both of the clauses in this sentence can stand alone. Option D is incorrect because the sentence does not contain any incomplete thoughts at all. A sentence fragment is essentially an incomplete sentence; it is a thought intended to be a sentence but missing at least one component required to make it a sentence. This sentence is composed of two complete thoughts, so it is certainly not a fragment. Option E is incorrect as the sentence is not instructing anything to be done, only stating information. An imperative sentence is one that instructs, such as, “Clean your room, Daryl.”
Which of the following statements are correct? There may be more than one correct answer.
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The correct answers are (A) and (D). There are four major modes of writing: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive. Answer (A) is correct because the main purpose of narrative writing is to tell a story. It typically includes characters, dialogues, different situations, and conflicts. An anecdote is a brief story about a real-life incident, and therefore, narrative writing is used when writing it. Answer (D) is correct because poetry may use both narrative writing and descriptive writing. Descriptive writing is used to describe and give many details about a character, an event, a place, etc. Depending on the poem, poetry writing can be both narrative and descriptive, or only one of those. Answer (B) is incorrect because poetry, novellas, and biographies are all typically written using narrative writing. Although they may also include descriptive or expository writing, it is not true that they should not be written using the same mode of writing. Answer (C) is incorrect because persuasive writing is used when the purpose is to convince; the writer takes a stand and makes arguments and justifications supporting that stand. People use cover letters when applying for a new job, trying to convince the employer why they specifically should be hired, and therefore, they are persuasive. Advertisements are meant to convince people to buy products and are therefore persuasive as well. However, recipes only include instructions, and therefore use expository writing, not persuasive. Answer (E) is incorrect because the main purpose of descriptive writing is to create a mental image of a person, place, or object using many details and applying to the reader's senses. Explaining facts and processes is the main purpose of expository writing, not descriptive writing.
The following are outlines of each of the popular MAP Growth tests, math, reading, and language usage, detailing the subjects they cover and the knowledge and skills they aim to test:
Each question on the MAP test is designed to assess certain academic abilities measured over ranges of levels in a system called RIT, which stands for Rasch Unit. By answering a given question correctly, a student demonstrates that he or she has the ability tested in the question, and thereby suggests a readiness for questions of a similar level according to their RIT range. After the test presents the student with enough of these types of questions, it will be able to calculate which average level of RIT they will have a 50% chance of answering correctly, and that number will be their score.
All students receive a general score as well as one for each topic, and they also receive these scores in percentile form. The main percentile scores reflect the students’ performance in relation to others in the same grade and time of year, and an additional one compares them to others who scored similarly to them on the last test they took, thus keeping track of both their overall standing as well as their level of improvement.
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You can only gain from preparing for the MAP test. If you or your child is taking the test as an entrance exam, you should certainly prepare, as this will significantly increase your chances of being accepted to your school of choice. When taking the test regularly in school, or even for placement within a program, you can still only benefit from preparing, as it will give you the proper tools to more accurately represent just how smart you are. This is, in part, because you will be less likely to stumble over careless mistakes, and your incorrect answers will more likely reflect the things you genuinely don’t know as opposed to a lack of understanding of the test and its style of questioning. Additionally, properly preparing for the MAP can actually help you progress in your academic growth such that your higher scores would reflect your newly advanced level. Proper MAP prep can improve your understanding of materials you learned in school and help you acquire new knowledge and skills that will accelerate your education, ultimately affording you greater academic opportunities in your future.
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