Skills Insight™

Next-Generation Reading
Score range: 236 and below Score range: 263–275
Students scoring in this band are beginning to demonstrate Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate
the foundational skills and knowledge needed to be college the following additional skills and knowledge in moderately
and career ready. challenging to complex texts:

§§ Describe the effect that word choice has on meaning or

Score range: 237–249 tone when the effect is subtle
Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the §§ Determine a subtly established point of view or
following skills and knowledge in somewhat challenging to perspective in a text
moderately challenging texts:
§§ Make moderately challenging to complex connections
§§ Locate clearly stated information in and draw simple between multiple texts on the same topic
inferences from a text §§ Determine the meaning of a relatively uncommon
§§ Locate a text’s explicitly stated main purpose or identify high-utility academic word or phrase in context or the
a paragraph’s subtly stated main purpose literal meaning of a moderately challenging figurative
§§ Integrate basic information and ideas from multiple expression in context
texts on the same topic
§§ Determine the meaning of a common word or phrase Score range: 276 and above
using clear context clues Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate
the following additional skills and knowledge in complex to
Score range: 250–262 highly complex texts:

Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate §§ Determine a complex function of a part of a text in
the following additional skills and knowledge in moderately relation to the whole text
challenging texts: §§ Determine a complex to highly complex central claim or
§§ Locate and interpret subtly stated information in and counterclaim of a text
determine an implicit central idea, theme, or purpose of §§ Reach complex to highly complex or subtle assessments
a text of an author’s reasoning or use of evidence
§§ Determine a straightforward function of a part of a text
in relation to the whole text
§§ Make somewhat challenging connections between
multiple texts on the same topic
§§ Determine the meaning of a common high-utility
academic word or phrase using context clues

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Next-Generation Writing
Score range: 236 and below Score range: 263–275
Students scoring in this band are beginning to demonstrate Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
the foundational skills and knowledge needed to be college following additional skills and knowledge:
and career ready.
§§ Revise a moderately challenging to complex text to
improve development and organization (e.g., effectively
Score range: 237–249 set up a main idea, use a transitional sentence to link
Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the ideas or topics within a text)
following skills and knowledge: §§ Use language effectively in a complex context
§§ Revise a somewhat to moderately challenging text to (e.g., revise text to eliminate subtle redundancies)
improve development and organization (e.g., delete a §§ Recognize and correct a complex error in sentence
clearly irrelevant sentence, select a logical transitional structure, usage, or punctuation (e.g., a vague pronoun,
phrase) punctuation incorrectly setting off a restrictive
§§ Use language effectively in a somewhat to moderately sentence element)
challenging context (e.g., use familiar words and phrases
precisely, correct basic redundancies) Score range: 276 and above
§§ Recognize and correct a basic error in sentence Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
structure, usage, or punctuation (e.g., an inappropriate following additional skills and knowledge:
shift in verb tense, missing punctuation between items
§§ Revise a complex to highly complex text to improve
in a list)
development and organization (e.g., make a nuanced
decision about the best placement of a sentence)
Score range: 250–262 §§ Use language effectively in a complex to highly complex
Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the context (e.g., use the most appropriate word or phrase to
following additional skills and knowledge: achieve a particular rhetorical effect, such as emphasis)
§§ Revise a moderately challenging to complex text to §§ Recognize and correct a complex, subtle, or uncommon
improve development and organization (e.g., add error in sentence structure, usage, or punctuation
support for an explicitly stated claim, make basic (e.g., a colon to introduce an explanation)
decisions about the order of information in a paragraph)
§§ Use language effectively in a moderately challenging
context to achieve a rhetorical goal (e.g., combine
sentences to incorporate a modifying phrase)
§§ Recognize and correct an error in sentence structure,
usage, or punctuation (e.g., an obviously incomplete or
run-on sentence)

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Next-Generation Arithmetic
Score range: 236 and below Score range: 263–275
Students scoring in this band may demonstrate the Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
following skills and knowledge: following additional skills or knowledge:

§ Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers § Fluently solve numerical expressions by applying the
§ Identify decimal values that occur between whole order of operations involving decimals and whole
numbers numbers
§ Convert fractions to their decimal equivalents § Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to
§ Order positive real numbers expressed as a whole § solve multistep applied problems involving fractions
number or decimal from least to greatest Solve single-step applied problems involving percent

Score range: 237–249 § Solve problems involving converting a fraction to

its decimal equivalent and rounding the result to a
Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
given value
following additional skills or knowledge:

§ Fluently add, subtract, and multiply decimals Score range: 276 and above
§ Fluently add and subtract fractions, including mixed Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
numbers following additional skills or knowledge:
§ Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of
§ Fluently apply the order of operations to solve
whole numbers and decimals to solve one-step applied
numerical expressions involving fractions, including
problems
mixed numbers and improper fractions

Score range: 250–262 § Solve multistep applied problems involving percent

Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the § Order numerical expressions based on their
following additional skills or knowledge: computational result

§ Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of

whole numbers and decimals to solve multistep applied
problems
§ Use addition, subtraction, and multiplication to solve
one-step problems involving fractions
§ Determine the result when taking the percent of a
given number

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Next-Generation Quantitative
Reasoning, Algebra, and
Statistics
Score range: 236 and below §§ Create and use a system of linear equations to solve
problems
Students scoring in this band may demonstrate the
following skills and knowledge: §§ Apply rates, ratios, and unit conversions in multistep
problems
§§ Identify a graph that represents a set of univariate data
§§ Make connections between tables, graphs, verbal
§§ Fluently add, subtract, and multiply integers descriptions, and algebraic equations representing a
§§ Identify coordinate points in the xy-plane linear relationship

To gain more information on skills and knowledge students

in this score band can typically demonstrate, it may be
Score range: 263–275
advisable to administer the Next-Generation Arithmetic Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
placement test. following additional skills or knowledge:

§§ Calculate or find the slope and y-intercept of a line that

Score range: 237–249 is parallel to a given line
Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the §§ Evaluate numerical expressions with negative and
following additional skills or knowledge: fractional exponents
§§ Identify a linear equation or inequality that represents §§ Calculate conditional probability for simple problems
a simple context §§ Interpret the y-intercept of a graph within a context
§§ For a linear equation in two variables, given one value,
calculate or find the other value Score range: 276 and above
§§ Evaluate a numerical rational or radical expression Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
consisting of integers following additional skills or knowledge:
§§ Solve one-step problems involving unit rate, ratio, §§ Calculate or find the slope and y-intercept of a line that
proportion, and unit conversion is perpendicular to a given line
§§ Given a nonlinear function, calculate or find the input
Score range: 250–262 given the output
Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
§§ Compare the means and medians of two data
following additional skills or knowledge:
distributions
§§ Describe a solution to a system of equations or §§ Create expressions to represent complex perimeter and
inequalities algebraically area problems
§§ Evaluate numerical expressions involving absolute value

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Next-Generation Advanced
Algebra and Functions
Score range: 236 and below Score range: 250–262
Students scoring in this band may demonstrate the Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
following skills and knowledge: following additional skills or knowledge:

§§ Given a linear function that represents a context, §§ Make connections between graphs and algebraic
calculate or find the output given the input equations representing quadratic relationships
§§ Apply rules of exponents to simplify expressions §§ Rewrite rational expressions
§§ Solve quadratic equations in x + bx + c = 0 form
2
§§ Use properties of triangles to solve problems
by factoring §§ Utilize simple trigonometric ratios
§§ Interpret the meaning of a value in an exponential
function based on the context Score range: 263–275
To gain more information on skills and knowledge students Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
in this score band can typically demonstrate, it may be following additional skills or knowledge:
advisable to administer the Next-Generation Quantitative §§ Add and subtract rational expressions
Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics placement test.
§§ Solve complex rational equations
§§ Solve exponential equations in one variable
Score range: 237–249
§§ Relate the solutions of a system of a linear and nonlinear
Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
equation in two variables to the graphs of the system
following additional skills or knowledge:

§§ Solve linear equation systems in ax + by = cx + dy form Score range: 276 and above
with integer coefficients
Students scoring in this band can typically demonstrate the
§§ Make connections between tables and algebraic following additional skills or knowledge:
equations representing a nonlinear relationship
§§ Make connections between graphical, tabular, and
§§ Rewrite complex polynomial (including quadratic)
algebraic representations of relationships involving the
expressions by factoring
absolute value function
§§ Solve simple rational and radical equations
§§ Solve quadratic equations in one variable using any
method, including completing the square
§§ Use concepts about trigonometric functions (sine, cosine,
tangent) to solve problems, including within the unit circle
§§ Evaluate logarithmic equations

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