OHIO has allowed KIDTEST.COM SM to put online, practice tests questions for the benefit
of OHIO's students. These tests from OHIO's Proficiency Test Program, can
be accessed from the KIDTEST.COM SM test inventory and then taken online by using the latest
in Internet testing technology.
NOTE: the sixth grade Reading test included in this test battery does not include questions contained
in the original Proficiency test. Because of copyright issues related to the original test, Kidtest.com decided
that rather than delete this subject from the Ohio test battery, it would create a new test in accordance with
the same standards. To be sure, this new test which has been made part of the test battery, was an equal
determiner of academic achievement, it was made three times longer in order to test to the prescribed standards
in depth.
The sixth grade test in Reading has 30 questions, the Mathematics test has 17 questions, the Citizenship test has
17 questions and the Science test has 17 questions. KIDTEST.COM SM makes the battery of four tests available in one unit of 81 questions.
These tests are appropriate for students in the final months of fifth grade as well as those in sixth and seventh grade.
The OHIO Reading test has been created in accordance with the following testing standards approved by the
OHIO Department of Education
READING
Fiction or Poetry Selections:
Given a fiction or poetry text to read silently, learners will demonstrate an understanding of text and elements of fiction or poetry by responding to items in which they:
- analyze aspects of the text, examining, for example, characters, setting, plot, problem/solution, point of view, or theme;
- summarize the text;
- infer from the text; and/or
- respond to the text.
Given a fiction or poetry text to read silently, learners will demonstrate an understanding of text
and elements of fiction or poetry by responding to items in which they:
- compare and contrast aspects of the text, for example, characters or settings;
- critique and evaluate the text;
- select information for a variety of purposes, including enjoyment;
- express reasons for recommending or not recommending the text for a particular audience or purpose; and/or
- explain how an author uses contents of a text to support his/her purpose for writing.
Nonfiction Selections:
Given a nonfiction text to read silently, learners will demonstrate an understanding of text and elements of nonfiction by
responding to items in which they:
- analyze the text, examining, for example, author's use of comparison
and contrast, cause and effect, or fact and opinion;
- summarize the text;
- infer from the text; and/or
- respond to the text.
Given a nonfiction text to read silently, learners will demonstrate an understanding of text and elements of
nonfiction by responding to items in which they:
- compare and/or contrast aspects of the text;
- critique and evaluate the text for such elements as organizational
structure and logical reasoning;
- select information from a variety of resources to support ideas, concepts, and interpretations;
- express reasons for recommending or not recommending the text for a particular
audience or purpose; and/or
- explain how an author uses contents of a text to support his/her purpose for writing.
MATHEMATICS
- Apply the relation between doubling the side of a regular figure and the
corresponding increase in area.
- Determine the rule, identify missing numbers, and/or find the nth term in a sequence of
numbers or a table of numbers involving one operation or power.
- Apply appropriate notations and methods for symbolizing the problem statement and
solution process.
- Identify needed and given information in a problem situation, as well as irrelevant information.
- Validate and/or generalize solutions and problem-solving strategies.
- Compute with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
- Find equivalent fractions.
- Change freely between fractions and decimals.
- Order combinations of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals by using the symbols <, <, >, >,
and = and/or by placing them on a number line.
- Use ratios and proportions in a wide variety of applications.
- Visualize and show the results of rotation, translation, reflection, or stretching of geometric figures.
- Recognize, classify, and/or use characteristics of lines and simple two-dimensional figures
including circles; and apply models and properties to characterize and/or contrast different classes of
figures including three-dimensional figures.
- Use the distributive property in arithmetic computations.
- Explain and reflect differences between calculators with arithmetic logic
and calculators with algebraic logic when symbolizing a keying sequence and identifying the display as each key is pressed.
- Use variables to describe arithmetic processes, to generalize arithmetic
statements, and to generalize a problem situation.
- Determine perimeters, areas, and volumes of common polygons, circles,
and solids using counting techniques or formulas.
- Convert, compare, and compute with common units of measure within the s
ame measurement system.
- Measure angles with a protractor.
- Apply appropriate strategies to find estimates of sums, differences, products, and
quotients of whole numbers (and determine whether the estimate is greater than or less
than the exact result).
- Estimate the sum, difference, product, or quotient of decimal numbers by rounding,
and the sum, difference, or product of fractions and/or mixed numbers by rounding the
fractions to 0, 1/2, or 1.
- Collect data, create a table, picture graph, bar graph, circle graph, or line graph, and
use them to solve application problems.
- Read, interpret, and use tables, charts, maps, and graphs to identify patterns, note
trends, and draw conclusions.
- Apply the concept of average and calculate the arithmetic mean and mode of a
given set of numbers.
- Make predictions of outcomes of experiments based upon theoretical probabilities
and explain actual outcomes
CITIZENSHIP
- Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to think about the relationship among events:
- group significant individuals by broadly defined historical eras
- utilize multiple-tier time lines
- Utilize a variety of resources to consider information from different perspectives about North America:
- identify the central idea an historical narrative attempts to address
- inquire into the relative credibility of sources
- Identify significant individuals from the past in North America and explain their contributions
to the cultural heritage of the United States.
- Identify a significant individual from a region of the world other than North America
and discuss cause-and-effect relationships surrounding a major event in the individual's life.
- Compare the gender roles, religious ideas, or class structures in two societies
- Draw inferences about the experiences, problems, and opportunities that cultural groups* encountered in the past.
- Describe how the customs and traditions of immigrant and other groups have shaped American life.
- Utilize map skills:
- apply latitude and longitude to locate points on maps and globes
- distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information on a map for a specific task
- Interpret and analyze maps, charts, or graphs to formulate geographic ideas:
- utilize time zones to compute differences in time and to describe their impact on human activities
- determine and explain relationships among resources, economic activities, and population distribution.
- Use maps of North America or the world to identify physical and cultural regions and to show relationships among regions.
- Examine instances of contact between people of different regions of the world and determine the reasons for these contacts.
- Describe the role of each factor of production in producing a specific good or service and suggest alternative uses for the resources involved.
- Identify the factors that influence:
- consumer decisions to demand goods or services
- producer decisions to supply goods or services
- Identify the factors that determine the degree of competition in a market and describe the impact of competition on a market:
- identify advantages and disadvantages of competition in the marketplace
- explain the general relationship between supply, demand, and price in a competitive market
- Use information about global resource distribution to make generalizations about why nations engage in international trade.
- Identify the main functions of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the United States national government and cite
activities related to these functions.
- Interpret how examples of political activity illustrate characteristics of American democracy.
- Classify characteristics of government that are typical of a monarchal, democratic, or dictatorial type of government.
- Analyze information on civic issues by organizing key ideas with their supporting facts.
- Identify and analyze alternatives through which civic goals can be achieved and select an appropriate
alternative based upon a set of criteria.
- Identify ways to resolve private and public conflicts based on principles of fairness and justice.
- Identify examples of citizen participation in political systems around the world.
* The expression "cultural groups" refers to a number of individuals sharing unique characteristics (e.g., race, ethnicity, national origin, and religion).
SCIENCE
- Use a simple key to classify objects, organisms, and/or phenomena.
- Identify the potential hazards and/or precautions involved in scientific investigations.
- Make inferences from observations of phenomena and/or events.
- Identify the positive and/or negative impact of technology on human activity.
- Evaluate conclusions based on scientific data.
- Recognize the advantages and/or disadvantages to the user in the operation of simple technological devices.
- Predict the influences of the motion of some objects on other objects.
- Propose and/or evaluate an investigation of simple physical and/or chemical changes.
- Provide examples of transformation and/or conservation of matter and energy in simple physical systems.
- Identify simple patterns in physical phenomena.
- Describe simple cycles of the earth, sun, and moon.
- Identify characteristics and/or patterns in rocks and soil.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the cycling of resources on earth, such as carbon, nitrogen, and/or water.
- Trace the transmission of energy in a small, simple ecosystem and/or identify the roles of organisms in the energy movement in an ecosystem.
- Compare and/or contrast the diversity of ways in which living things meet their needs.
- Analyze behaviors and/or activities that positively or negatively influence human health.
- Analyze the impacts of human activity on the ecosystems of the earth.
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