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Must Know Facts on the CSET English Exam

By: Karen Cunningham

We have four subtests on the CSET English test. There are multiple-choice questions on subtest I and subtest II, and both subtests III and IV are constructed-response questions.

You are about to learn an important bit of information some publishers call a secret. What you are about to learn is important. The valuable information is that subtests III and IV are not essay questions. If you write an essay response you will not pass the CSET English exam. You do not have the time to write an essay response. Instead of writing an essay, you must write a constructed-response answer. In my CSET class, I will show you a great way to write a constructed-response answer.

There are 10 composition and rhetoric questions and 40 literature and textual analysis questions for a total of 50 multiple-choice questions on subtest I.

There are 50 multiple-choice questions in the areas of language, linguistics, and literacy on subtest II.

Subtest III has 2 long constructed-response questions. One of these constructed-response questions will be on a nonliterary text like a speech, and the other constructed-response question will be on a literary text like a book.

There are four constructed-response questions on subtest IV.

Managing Your Time

You must complete the entire CSET exam within 5 hours (300 minutes). If you elect to only take one or two subtests on a single test day, then you have more time although this is a more expensive choice than taking all four subtests at once.

You will have one hour to complete subtest I, one hour to complete subtest II, two hours to complete subtest III, and one hour to complete subtest IV. Now that we know this, we can break the time down on a per question basis.

For subtest I, you should take no more than a single minute per question. For subtest II, you should take no more than a single minute per question. For subtest III, no more than 1-hour per constructed-response question. On subtest IV no more than 15 minutes per constructed-response question.

What is a Passing Score?

You must score a 220 to pass the CSET Single Subject English exam which means you need to get about 75% of the questions correct.

You need to pass all four subtests to pass the exam. Students have failed the CSET Single Subject English exam because they erroneously thought that strength on the multiple-choice questions would make up for weakness on the constructed-response questions. Do not think that your skill on one subtest will make up for weakness on another subtest. You must pass all four subtests to pass the CSET Single Subject English exam.

Cheating the CSET Exam

Please do not put method over content when studying for your CSET exam. A few people believe, and some publishers are more than willing to exploit this belief, that methods exist that will help you pass the CSET without having to learn all the required material. A competitor of mine that offers a CSET English study guide goes as far to make the claim that even if you are "brain-dead", you can pass the CSET English exam by learning his secret test taking methods. This publisher is attempting to exploit everyone’s wish for a quick fix, a "magic pill" to passing the CSET English exam. My online CSET English study guide and course is all about content and having students complete memory enhancement exercises like flash cards, chronology, fill-in, matching, point and click, unscramble, quizzes, and even crossword puzzles. Having said that, I am going to share with you a method you may want to consider: the "2 of 4 Rule".

I discovered this method while creating tests for students over the last decade as the president of Confab Publishing. What became apparent, over many years of creating tests like the CSET English exam, was that it is significantly harder to create a good but incorrect answer-choice than it is to create the correct answer. So usually only two attractive answer-choices are offered. One correct; the other either intentionally misleading or only partially correct. The other two answer-choices are usually fluff. This makes educated guessing on the CSET English exam much more effective. If you can cross out the two fluff choices, your probability of answering the question successfully will increase from 25% to 50%.

Remember, do not go into the CSET English exam thinking that you are going to pass by using the "2 of 4 Rule", or any other "method". If you put in the required effort and discipline to pass the CSET English exam, you will know. If you put in the required studying, and you come to a question you simply do not know, only then should you consider using the "2 of 4 Rule". If you buy a great CSET English study guide or enroll in an online CSET English course like the one I teach, you will not need to rely heavily on methods like the "2 of 4 Rule", instead, the content you will learn in my CSET prep class will carry you through.

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Terri Adams writes for ACE the CSET English prep course which is the better way to ace the CSET English exam. Make sure you visit www.acethecset.com for more information on CSET English preparation.

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