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“MasteryPrep is the catalyst for knocking down the barriers of access and success.”

Ngondi Kamatuka Center for Educational Opportunity Programs Director University of Kansas

Every student can graduate high school with a college-ready ACT or SAT score. Every student deserves to.

For most students, however, it’s not a level playing field. Students who come from low-income communities—who might be the first to go to college in their families—have an uphill climb. The tough reality is that nearly 90% of low-income students graduate high school without a college-ready ACT or SAT score.

It’s not a level playing field for the schools that serve underperforming students, either. Each year, expectations rise but without a commensurate increase in resources. The recent pandemic has only exacerbated this trend.

That’s why MasteryPrep’s entire focus is on helping schools succeed. We have developed the only college readiness curricula designed from the ground up to help schools boost their students’ scores. In addition to inperson instruction, we offer distance learning options that will help you provide engaging, effective instruction.

In 2022, MasteryPrep reached a milestone of impacting more than 1 million students since our company’s founding in 2012. Our college readiness resources assist more than 400,000 students each year across 625 school districts and institutions. We hope that this year we can partner with you and help provide your students the brighter future that higher test scores bring.

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Academic Timeline

Academic Timeline Our academic timeline provides the roadmap for a complete system of success for standardized test preparation.

SUMMER

AUGUST

This timeline represents a recommended implementation.

We customize implementation plans to fit any school calendar.

Professional Development: • Decoding: PD for the ACT (p. 10) • Decoding: PD for the SAT (p. 14) • Mastery Certification Course for the ACT/SAT (p. 16) Comprehensive in-person or online training where teachers become ACT and SAT experts. Integrate college readiness in the classroom with tips, strategies, and content insights.

Practice Tests: • TruScore Testing & Analysis for the ACT, SAT, or STAAR (p. 18) Deep insights into ACT, SAT, or STAAR performance online and on demand.

No-hassle, pencil-and-paper option also available. Up to nine practice tests, plus Study Hall for adaptive prep.

Academic Timeline

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The common denominators of all programs on this timeline: Data-Driven

Engaging

An exhaustive analysis of over 20,000 official test items

Attention-grabbing hooks and activities, careful lesson

and more than 50 million student data points means we

scaffolding and differentiation, and expert yet relatable

cover what matters and we get results.

instructors keep your students absorbed.

Mastery-Based

Blended

Integrated best practices for instructional design and

Our programs leverage blended learning, so students can

classroom instruction ensure students achieve mastery

succeed in person, online, and any mix in between.

of time management, test-taking skills, and essential content.

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JANUARY

Curricula: • Mastery for the ACT (p. 24) • Mastery for the SAT (p. 33) • Mastery for the TSIA2 (p. 36) The first and only masterybased curricula for the ACT, SAT, and TSIA2 Assessment.

Fits any schedule with zero teacher prep time. In-person or virtual classroom.

• SnapCourse for the ACT/SAT/ TSIA2 (p. 40) Students can boost their readiness for the ACT, SAT, or TSIA2 in as little as four weeks with our online test prep program.

• Elements for the ACT (p. 44) • Elements for the SAT (p. 46) • Elements for the TSIA2 (p. 48) Daily reinforcement of ACT, SAT, or TSIA2 essential skills.

Scaffolded approach builds confidence and competence. Use in any video conference software or in person on a smartboard.

FEBRUARY

MAY

Boot Camps: • Mastery for WorkKeys (p. 64) The most comprehensive and successful WorkKeys prep program for earning a Silver NCRC™.

Post-test: TruScore is frequently administered as a post-test in January.

• Boot Camp for the ACT (p. 50) • Boot Camp for the SAT (p. 54) • Boot Camp for WorkKeys (p. 67) • Boot Camps for EOC (p. 58) • Boot Camp for the TSIA2 (p. 63) Better scores in one day.

Engaging experts help students become prepared and confident with time management and testtaking strategies provided by in-person and virtual workshops.

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MasteryPrep Ready

MasteryPrep Ready

Start early. Master what matters. Finish strong.

MasteryPrep features Ready for the ACT, Ready for the SAT, and Ready for the TSIA2. From bell ringers and practice tests to workshops and full-semester curricula, our MasteryPrep Ready system packages are our comprehensive college readiness solutions for grades 9-12.

Concerned about budget? We can work with you on implementing any of the programs you wish to purchase and tailor our offerings to fit your budget. One investment can change your students’ trajectory and increase the scholarship opportunities and financial means to attend college. An extra point or two can be a difference for a student to get into college, earn a partial scholarship, or a full scholarship.

Here’s what teachers and students have said about our programs: “Thank you so much for all of your help, this week and over the past year. There is no way we could have safely offered so many practice tests to our Fellows without MP’s TruScore and bubble sheet tests. Your team made it possible for our Fellows to get the practice they need and stay safe in the pandemic. We are so grateful!”

- Elin Hawkinson, ACT Learning Coordinator | TruScore Practice Testing & Analysis | Baton Rouge Youth Coalition (BRYC), LA “This seminar leader was incredible! She kept me engaged unlike any other teacher and shared great useful information. I will be applying and sharing what I learned from this seminar because it was truly what I needed to push me to set goals and achieve them.”

- Student | Virtual College Playbook Session | University of TX - Arlington-TX “I would recommend MasteryPrep because it provides opportunities for whole-class data dives as well as individual data reveals.

Differentiation, which can be a challenge, is literally at a teacher’s fingertips. It will literally provide an opportunity to meet students where they are and offer a myriad of tutoring options.”

- Mary Sloan, Educator | Virtual Product Training | Floyd Central High School-KY “Taking the ACT Mastery classes has helped me feel prepared because there is nothing new on the real test. I am able to use so many strategies that have greatly improved my scores and my financial aid from future schools. This is so amazing and helpful. I wish more kids could take this course so they could make great scores too.”

- Student | Virtual ACT Mastery Class | University of Central Arkansas, AR

MasteryPrep Ready for the ACT

MasteryPrep Ready for the ACT With MasteryPrep Ready for the ACT, you can fully transition your college readiness initiatives to a blended learning environment.

The results? Better scores and better college readiness outcomes, year after year.

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What’s Included: TRUSCORE FOR THE ACT Official ACT Practice Tests + Adaptive Prep with Study Hall.

THE COLLEGE PLAYBOOK The student-friendly college admissions guide.

DECODING: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ACT Develop core teachers’ expertise in improving college readiness outcomes.

SNAPCOURSE FOR THE ACT Better ACT scores with engaging 5-minute microvideo lessons.

MASTERYPREP READY FOR THE ACT AT A GLANCE: • Fully blended programming. Virtual and on-site. Live and asynchronous. Print and e-book available.

MASTERY FOR THE ACT The comprehensive ACT prep curriculum.

ELEMENTS FOR THE ACT

• Complete 9–12 college readiness solution, including ACT prep and college admissions support.

Daily classroom warm-up exercises covering core college readiness skills.

• Low- to high-intensity supports, ranging from bell ringers and practice tests to workshops and full-semester curricula.

BOOSTER CLASSES FOR THE ACT

• Affordable. Our full program is less than $20 per high school student for most districts.

Live virtual ACT prep programs led

by MasteryPrep experts.

BOOT CAMP FOR THE ACT Better scores in one day with a live virtual event.

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MasteryPrep Ready for the SAT

MasteryPrep Ready for the SAT With MasteryPrep Ready for the SAT, we can help students at all score ranges meet the necessary SAT College and Career Readiness Benchmarks to graduate high school college ready

What’s Included: TRUSCORE FOR THE SAT SAT Practice Tests + Adaptive Prep with Study Hall.

THE COLLEGE PLAYBOOK The student-friendly college admissions guide.

DECODING: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SAT Develop core teachers’ expertise in improving college readiness outcomes.

SNAPCOURSE FOR THE SAT

MASTERYPREP READY FOR THE SAT AT A GLANCE: • Fully blended programming. Virtual and on-site. Live and asynchronous. Print and e-book available.

• Complete 9–12 college readiness solution, including SAT prep and college admissions support.

• Low- to high-intensity supports, ranging from bell ringers and practice tests to workshops and full-semester curricula.

• Affordable. Our full program is less than $20 per high school student for most districts.

Better SAT scores with engaging 5-minute microvideo lessons.

MASTERY FOR THE SAT The comprehensive SAT prep curriculum.

ELEMENTS FOR THE SAT Daily classroom warm-up exercises covering core college readiness skills.

BOOSTER CLASSES FOR THE SAT Live virtual SAT prep programs led

by MasteryPrep experts.

BOOT CAMP FOR THE SAT Better scores in one day with a live virtual event.

MasteryPrep Ready for the TSIA2

MasteryPrep Ready for the TSIA2 With MasteryPrep Ready for the TSIA2, we can help students at all score ranges meet the necessary College and Career Readiness Benchmarks to graduate high school college ready!

Achieve better scores and better college readiness outcomes, year after year.

What’s Included: THE COLLEGE PLAYBOOK The student-friendly college admissions guide.

DECODING: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE TSIA2 Develop core teachers’ expertise in improving college readiness outcomes.

SNAPCOURSE FOR THE TSIA2 Better scores with engaging 5-minute microvideo lessons.

MASTERY FOR THE TSIA2 The comprehensive prep curriculum.

MASTERYPREP READY FOR THE TSIA2 AT A GLANCE: • Fully blended programming. Virtual and on-site. Live and asynchronous. Print and e-book available.

ELEMENTS FOR THE TSIA2 Daily classroom warm-up exercises covering core college readiness skills.

BOOSTER CLASSES FOR THE TSIA2

• Complete 9–12 college readiness solution, including ACT/SAT/TSIA2 prep and college admissions support.

Live virtual prep programs led by MasteryPrep experts.

• Low- to high-intensity supports, ranging from bell ringers and practice tests to workshops and full-semester curricula.

BOOT CAMP FOR THE ACT/SAT/TSIA2

• Affordable. Our full program is less than $20 per high school student for most districts.

Better scores in one day with a live virtual event.

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Decoding: A Teacher’s Guide to Prep for the ACT

Decoding: Decoding: The A Teacher’s Guide to Prep for theGuide ACT Teacher’s

for the ACT

to Prep

Students struggle to connect what they learn in class to the ACT, and there isn’t enough time or expertise for teachers to bridge this gap. That’s where we come in.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: June–August, January, professional development days throughout the year

Decoding for the ACT offers a teachertested, classroom-proven approach to impact students in all score ranges.

Why Decoding for the ACT? DECODING FOR THE ACT AT A GLANCE: • Decoding for the ACT workbook for each attendee • Access to printables and tools for each participant • Subject-specific agendas for ELA, math, and science teachers • Full-day sessions available for each subject • Engaging, expert on-site or virtual facilitator E-books available

• Provides a comprehensive, universal approach to standardized test prep • Offers insight into which skills are tested and how often they appear on the test • Features detailed resources that align the ACT standards with standards already being taught in the classroom

Decoding the for ACT Includes: • Classroom-ready mini-lessons that help students master time management and test-taking strategies • An actionable, one-page checklist for making the most of the program’s concepts • Micro-practices that encourage good test-taking habits

Decoding: A Teacher’s Guide to Prep for the ACT

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Boost ACT Scores Schoolwide

Motivation The first hidden question on every standardized test is, “Do you give a flip?” We show you how to ensure that your students are motivated and care to perform well on the ACT.

Test-Taking Skills Students will be taking tests for the rest of their lives. We break down what it means to develop test-taking skills and help your students master standardized assessments.

Time Management MasteryPrep has helped over 100,000 students develop their time management skills on the ACT test. We share what works—and what doesn’t—to get students on pace.

Guessing Strategies Every standardized test is susceptible to guessing strategies, and the ACT is no exception. We share the most effective techniques and how to present them to your students.

Process of Elimination By developing this one skill, you can turn a poor test taker into a fantastic one.

Subject Area Mastery Each PD session is designed specifically for a subject area (English, Math, Reading, and Science) and is packed with domain-specific tips and strategies. Content is key on the ACT, and we share strategies for content mastery, Common Core standard correlations, and a detailed analysis of what content the ACT treats as most important.

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Decoding: A Teacher’s Guide to Prep for the ACT

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Demopolis High School Students Scoring “On Track for Readiness” on the ACT

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Decoding for the ACT Success: Demopolis High School, Alabama Demopolis High School serves 722 students. 60% come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and 51% belong to a racial minority.

Demopolis launched its ACT score improvement initiative with an onsite Decoding professional development for the ACT program. In 2017, 15.1% of sophomores scored on track for readiness on the ACT Aspire test in Math and 12.43% in Science. In 2018, after the PD, readiness for those same students improved to over 40% in Math and 25.7% in Science. *Unpaid testimonial. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. ACT score performance courtesy of Alabama DOE and based on year over year ACT test data for the same cohort.

All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

All twenty-four attendees at Demopolis High School rated the session a perfect five out of five!

“Excellent workshop and the presenter was wonderful.”

“Great presenter! Very informative and engaging! Loved it!”

“Great job by presenter. It’s a hard job. She makes it look easy.”

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The presenter was excellent. It is not often that I enjoy PD after being an educator for 20 years, but she was wonderful.

Here’s what other educators have to say about Decoding for the ACT: “Great training! It was probably the most informative workshop I have ever attended.”

“This workshop was kind of a jump start for me for thinking in terms of ACT preparation. Enjoyed it very much!”

“The information provided is practical, and the speaker is knowledgeable not only about the strategies but the approach the students have in taking the ACT and how to redirect their attitudes and test-taking skills.”

“I learned simple techniques to pass on to my students that can make a difference in their scores. Awesome info!”

“I really appreciate this information! As a veteran teacher I wish this would have been available 10 years ago…”

“Best presenter and professional development ever!!!

Seriously!”

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Decoding: Professional Development for the SAT

Decoding: Decoding: Professional Professional Development for the SAT Development

for the SAT

Empower your teachers to increase SAT scores. *Available for the 2023-24 school year.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: June–August, January, professional development days throughout the year

Why Decoding the SAT? • Build educator buy-in on your SAT improvement plans.

DECODING THE SAT AT A GLANCE:

• Provide teachers with practical tips and strategies they can apply right away.

• Handouts for each attendee

• Fun and engaging format makes this not just another PD

• Half-day or full-day session available • Tailored to either the SAT or PSAT

• Spark a shift toward a college-going culture on your campus.

• Engaging, expert on-site or virtual facilitator

• Address basic motivation problems.

Decoding: Professional Development for the SAT

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Participants will learn: • The four major reasons SAT prep isn’t successful and how to overcome them

• Key reasons students struggle on the SAT and how to fix them

• Ten inventive ways to incorporate SAT prep in your classroom, without causing distraction or losing class time

• What the SAT is actually measuring

• Five SAT prep pitfalls to avoid at all costs • How to get your students motivated for the SAT • Why some honor roll kids can’t get the SAT scores they need

• The secrets of how the SAT is scored • How to get every student on pace for timed tests • How to teach your students to guess twice as well • Nine must-have test-taking strategies

“For as long as I have reviewed the test, been given strategies and activities, these were most realistic!”

“Great testing strategies provided and ways to incorporate SAT prep in the classroom right away.”

“This is the first PD where I felt I could check all the boxes on the State Eval form.”

“This was my third MasteryPrep session, and all presenters have been beyond knowledgeable.”

“It was great! Can we have more?”

Learning specific strategies and ‘cheat codes,’ applying and practicing them ourselves, and then discussing the outcome of our attempts helped me figure out how to best teach these strategies.

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Mastery Certification Course for the ACT/SAT

Mastery Certification Course for the ACT/SAT Equip your instructional team to make ACT and SAT prep come alive.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: June–August, January, professional development days throughout the year

Mastery Certification Course for the ACT/SAT: MASTERY CERTIFICATION FOR THE ACT/SAT AT A GLANCE: • Four-day training program • Same format MasteryPrep uses to train its own instructors • Completion recognition for each attendee, but certification not guaranteed • Led by MasteryPrep Master Trainers onsite or virtually

• Orientation to the Mastery for the ACT or Mastery for the SAT curricula and teacher manuals • Training on classroom management and student engagement • Strategies for parsing data and differentiating instruction • Tips for making the most of entrance tickets, exit tickets, and activities • Review of online resources and TruScore practice testing reports • Teach-backs provide practical experience and realtime feedback.

Mastery Certification Course for the ACT/SAT

Get the best results in your test prep class with teachers certified by MasteryPrep in ACT and SAT Mastery.

“The training I have received through MasteryPrep has proven to be effective in enhancing my presentation style, increasing my content knowledge, and maximizing student engagement. My instruction is more lively and relatable for our students and has resulted in positive gains in their achievement!“

- Jim “J.” Kelly

“Training to be a MasteryPrep facilitator was strenuous, intense, and most importantly, necessary. I am not well versed in every single subject so I had my reservations walking in. However, it prepares you for the worst-case scenario, from student engagement to content comprehension. Training taught me how to reach as many students as possible, keep them engaged, and make the content relatable. All these things, and more, I learned in training and it made me not only more confident in my presentation abilities but also in the content being presented.”

- Zola-Kai Pollard

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TruScore Testing & Analysis

TruScore Testing & Analysis Instant, actionable insights into ACT, SAT, and STAAR performance. The foundation of data-driven approach to ACT, SAT, and STAAR score improvement starts with TruScore.

TruScore for the ACT: DELIVERY TIMELINE: Beginning and end of each semester, school testing dates throughout the year

TRUSCORE AT A GLANCE: • Convenient paper-and-pencil option: we provide all practice test booklets and answer documents as well as mailing labels for returning answer sheets • Instant results for online testing and quick turnaround for pencil and paper • Full-color digital or physical score reports • Score reports segmented by district, school, teacher, class, and individual student • Expert data review and analysis included

• Now featuring 3 Real ACT Tests to enhance your practice testing experience • Detailed answer explanations • Proctoring instructions to emulate the official timing of the ACT

TruScore for the SAT: • Online, on-demand SAT practice tests • Over 150 answer explanation videos • 3 full–length practice tests available

TruScore for STAAR: • Prepares students for the STAAR End of Course Assessment • TEKS-aligned practice items in Study Hall • One practice test for each high school assessment: Algebra I, English I, English II, Biology, U.S. History. *3 full-length practice tests will be available by the beginning of 2023

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Why TruScore?

The foundation of a data-driven approach to ACT, SAT, and STAAR score improvement starts with TruScore.

• Don’t Fly Blind: Start the year with the data you need. Our fast turnaround means that your teachers are data-enabled from the beginning of the semester and ready to act when it matters most.

• Instructional Focus: Subject-specific reports enable each department to set realistic instructional priorities that will drive improvements in college readiness outcomes.

• Start Early: College readiness starts freshman year. Share this performance data with your freshman and sophomore teachers to start remediating deficiencies early and set up year-after-year score gains.

• Remediation Plans: Incorporate student reports into individual remediation plans for seamless integration of college readiness skill development.

• Quantify Problems in Content and Test-Taking Skills: Ever heard it said that your students are bad test takers?

Now you can see exactly where their problem areas are!

Determine at a glance if there are issues with content, testtaking skills, or both.

• Pain-Free Test Administration and Grading: No printing. No sorting. No grading. We provide all documents. We even furnish the return label. Simply stack the answer sheets in a box and send them back. We will receive your answer documents, score them, and send your results the next business day!

• Aggregation: All reports are available at the district, school, teacher, class, and individual student level.

• TruScore Data Review: In this half-hour web conference, a MasteryPrep expert provides a walkthrough of your data report, recommends priorities, and helps your team convert data into action and score improvements.

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TruScore Testing & Analysis

Actionable Data After students take their practice tests, we provide detailed reports that give teachers clear test-taking skill metrics, powerful insights into student performance, and data-driven recommendations as to what actions to take to boost outcomes. All TruScore data is available online, as a spreadsheet download, or as a full-color PDF export for easy sharing.

Overview Report:

Student Score Report:

Overview of performance in each subject area across more than 20 key metrics, including student composite and scale scores.

Available for students and parents. Provides score analysis, recommendations, and answer keys in an easy-to-read, one-page format.

Subject Breakdown Report:

Recommendations:

Detailed analysis of over 150 individual skills tested on the ACT and nearly 100 specific skills tested on the SAT. Specific enough for your teachers to take action. For example, instead of just giving geometry scores, we show that your students specifically need help with the Pythagorean Theorem.

Automatic recommendations based on our extensive research of over 80 official ACT and SAT tests, over 15,000 ACT and SAT test items, and over 50 million real student performance data points.

TruScore Testing & Analysis

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Test-Taking Skills Report:

Threshold Report:

Quantifies your students’ relative strengths and weaknesses in seven essential test-taking skills, including time management and the process of elimination.

Helps you strategize on how many students are above or below your target ACT or SAT scores.

Item Analysis:

Score Summary:

Shows how many of your students selected each answer choice for a test item.

Shows your students’ ACT or SAT scores in each subject area for easy reference.

Answer Maps:

Explanation Videos:

See at a glance the answer choices that each student selected. Test data also available as .csv for easy analysis and sorting.

Detailed explanation videos are easy for students to follow and strengthen college readiness skills. Just because your students missed a question doesn’t mean they need to miss it again.

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TruScore Testing & Analysis

TruScore Add-On:

Study Hall Engaging videos and extra online practice covering every single ACT or SAT college readiness standard. Seamless integration with TruScore means your students work on exactly what they need help with.

Study Hall at a Glance: • Each ACT and SAT college readiness standard is linked to an engaging video playlist • Analytics provide insight into usage and progress • Recommendation algorithm creates personalized learning paths based on test performance

Study Hall for the ACT: • Over 220 videos (12+ hours)

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Immediately after students take a TruScore ACT or SAT practice test

• 300+ practice questions help students master what they’ve reviewed

Study Hall for the SAT: • Over 60 videos • 170+ practice questions help students master what they’ve reviewed

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Why Study Hall?

All TruScore data is available as a spreadsheet download or as a full-color PDF export for easy sharing.

• Convenient Data-Driven Prep: Content covering literally every topic the ACT or SAT has ever tested on, accessible in a single click and available to instant search and filtering.

• Test Mastery + Content Mastery: Our comprehensive library of videos led by MasteryPrep’s top instructors provides tips and techniques for mastering content along with testtaking skills.

• Learning + Doing:

• Adaptive Learning Paths: Each student receives personalized recommendations based on their practice test data. Once they’ve completed each set of recommendations, they receive more. In this way, students spend time on the topics most likely to improve outcomes.

• Comprehensive, Flexible Resource: Direct students to access Study Hall for self-guided, on-demand prep, or integrate individual videos or practice sets into the classroom as enrichment. Sort and filter to find the exact resource you need.

After students watch the playlist, they answer a series of practice questions that isolate the skill discussed and help lock in what they’ve learned.

“MasteryPrep offers a reliable and valid means of assessing

“We are so excited to have this feedback to pinpoint where

our students on the ACT at an economically viable price

our students need remediation. Thank you so much for the

point. This gives us great longitudinal data for tracking

ease of this process and quick return of results. I will be

student growth as we are entering our fourth year in our

recommending your product to others!”

partnership with MasteryPrep. Customer service is beyond excellent and the product is continually revised to meet the

- Tonia Easley, Counselor Vardaman High School

needs of our district.”

- Andy Schoggin, Assistant Superintendent/COO Petal School District, MS

“MasteryPrep is the quintessential diagnostic tool for excellence in preparation for the ACT. My students’ use of MasteryPrep has yielded more post-secondary college

“Thank you so much! Great turnaround with the data! I appreciate it.”

- Jennifer Rogers, Lead Teacher Morton High School

opportunities, while providing assistance in career-minded participants, because of a significant increase in ACT test scores.”

- Fredrick L. Hickmon Ph.D., Principal Choctaw Central High School

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Mastery for the ACT

Mastery for the ACT The first and only mastery-based ACT prep curriculum. Fits any schedule with zero teacher prep time.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Throughout the school year

MASTERY FOR THE ACT AT A GLANCE: • Four student workbooks (English, Math, Reading, and Science) • Over 150 hours of content • Over 1,600 practice questions • Effective for students scoring from 13 to 26

Why Mastery for the ACT? • Help students at all score ranges, even the students who need the most help. Scaffolded course modules leave no students behind.

• Teachers can focus on teaching instead of having to dig up content.

• Reduce teacher planning time.

• Get score increases for the students who are most likely to impact your accountability scores.

• Teacher manuals with scripted lessons for each subject area • Slide decks • Exit tickets • Mini-tests • Syllabus generation • Direct customer support • Virtual or in-person • 1- to 18-week courses with MasteryPrep instructors also available E-books available

Implementation Models • One-semester or full-year course • Weekly core class integration • Intervention, advisory, or homeroom • Integration into non-core classes • Special pullout course or after-school session • Full virtual classroom experience for blended learning environments

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Content is Key: English, Math, Reading, and Science English • 470 pages, 30 lessons, 550 practice questions, 45 test-taking tips.

• Master crucial punctuation rules that comprise 15% of scores but often haven’t been reviewed since middle school.

• Tips and strategies for transitions questions, the most heavily weighted topic in ACT English.

• Essential review for sentence structure, reducing redundancy, identifying author purpose, and much more.

Math • 546 pages, 38 lessons, 575 practice questions, 45 test-taking tips.

• Pre-algebra and elementary algebra drive most ACT score improvement; extensive review of the basics creates a firm foundation to build from.

• Time is of the essence in Math. Demonstrates not only how to answer the question but also how to answer more quickly and more accurately.

• Shows how to reverse-engineer word problems and dissect figures to maximum advantage.

Reading • 334 pages, 18 lessons, 325 practice questions, 25 test-taking tips.

• Learn to skim passages and scan for answers so that even if students run out of time or are challenged readers they can still get most of the questions right.

• Lessons on context, prefixes, and stems mean that confusing terms and phrases have met their match.

• One third of the questions on the ACT Reading test don’t require students to read the passage at all; we show students how to identify these items and answer them quickly and painlessly.

Science • 314 pages, 16 lessons, 220 practice questions, 20 test-taking tips.

• So much of the ACT Science test boils down to one skill: interpreting charts and graphs.

Our science lessons help students tame and master them.

• To score well on the science test, students have to think like a scientist, which is why we review the essentials of experimental design, controls, and the scientific method.

• The only curriculum that provides a skill-byskill breakdown of the ACT Science.

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Mastery for the ACT

Mastery for the ACT Success: DeSoto Parish School District

DeSoto Parish School District ACT Scores

DeSoto Parish School District serves 5,119 students, 48% of whom belong to racial minorities and 43% of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch.

19.5

After implementing Mastery for the ACT, DeSoto Parish was recognized for making the largest single-year ACT score gains in the state (+1.1 points district-wide) both with its entire population and among its minority and economically disadvantaged students. Its gains in college readiness accountability scores helped propel the district from a D rating to an A rating.

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DeSoto went on to earn an A rating for a second year in a row, moving from its ranking of 45th to the 9th highest-performing school district in Louisiana!

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“This has been one of the best experiences working with an outside organization that I have ever had.”

“Our teachers love the MasteryPrep materials.

They are so well done, and so well put together, that any teacher, from any subject, could use

- Judy Dotson Instructional Supervisor, Carter County School District, KY “When we started, only 3 students were scoring an 18 or

their materials and teach them to students.

higher. We ended the program with 21 students scoring 18

English teachers could teach on the ACT math

or higher, 18 of whom scored 19 or above. We had students

test, and vice versa. MasteryPrep’s materials

(including English learners) increase their score by 5-7

have made teaching students how to properly

points. The highest gains were made by a student who

take and prepare for the ACT so much easier.”

started with a 14 and ended with a 21.”

- Kevin McCabe ACT Instructor, Cohen College Prep, New Orleans, LA

- Tammy Cole Coordinator of Student Learning DeSoto Parish, LA

*Unpaid testimonial. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. ACT score average and gain data courtesy of Louisiana Department of Education. All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

Mastery for the ACT

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Mississippi District Invests in MasteryPrep Ready for the ACT Rankin County School District

Two years ago, Puckett High School invested in MasteryPrep Ready for the ACT, MasteryPrep’s comprehensive system of all its available ACT college readiness resources and solutions, including ACT prep and college admissions support for grades 9-12.

Puckett earned one of the highest ACT score gains within Mississippi’s Rankin County School District.

Their experience with MasteryPrep Ready for the ACT was so positive that access to the college readiness resource was expanded to all nine RCSD high schools.

“Having [MasteryPrep] Ready allows us to have an academic timeline that is set up for high school graduation and entrance into college, but we also have resources that prepare our young people for the skills necessary to enter the workforce,” said Montgomery Hinton, College and Career Prep Specialist for RCSD.

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Freshmen take a practice test through MasteryPrep’s TruScore Testing & Analysis for the ACT, which now features 3 official ACT® practice tests. Freshmen are also introduced to Elements for the ACT (classroom bell ringers) and The College Playbook (our guide to the college application and admissions process).

The RCSD pays for all sophomores to take the real ACT in the spring, and sophomore year is when they also enroll in dual college credit.

RCSD students take the ACT in both the fall and spring of their junior years, while several students opt in to take the ACT/WorkKeys in the spring. In the fall, they begin dual enrollment and start to work with their counselors on college/career outlooks. In the spring, they begin to apply to colleges and/or job shadow in their career of choice.

MasteryPrep’s Mastery for the ACT curriculum is implemented into junior year curriculum, supported by SnapCourse for the ACT (video lessons) and Study Hall for the ACT (reinforcement by prepping students on the skills they need to master). Boot Camp for the ACT help provide that final push before real test day.

Twelfth grade is then set up for seniors to continue to improve upon ACT/WorkKeys performances, and they work with their counselors to make choices about their college and careers.

Unpaid testimonial. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. ACT score average and gain data courtesy of MasteryPrep client district and based on year over year ACT test data for the same cohort. All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

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Learning Targets:

Step-by-Step Instructions:

ACT College Readiness Standards provide clear objectives for every lesson (with optional Common Core correlation).

Scripted lessons walk you through every step of the program. No matter your comfort level with the material, you have the tools to boost scores.

Engaging Activities:

Detailed Answer Explanations:

Hooks, games, and colorful analogies increase student interest and make test prep fun.

A comprehensive walkthrough of every single test item in each book makes even the toughest ACT questions approachable.

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Helping Teachers Succeed Schools have experts in math, English, and science, not the ACT. Mastery for the ACT helps great teachers become instant experts on standardized tests with no test prep background required.

Lesson 16 – Conciseness

Name ACT Mastery English ®

Date

Exit Ticket

2.1 Entrance Ticket Describe a time when an obstacle got in the way of something you were trying to accomplish. What steps did you take to remove the obstacle?

For both of these projects, the teacher required

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A. NO CHANGE B. asked for a required amount C. wanted a criteria that was necessary D. had a number of

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F. NO CHANGE G. the house might remind us H. it maybe reminds us J. we could remind ourselves

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A. NO CHANGE B. an archaeologist digging C. because he was an archaeologist who dug D. the archaeologist who was making the dig

at least five sources, ranging from historical sources to political theory texts.

For the next few nights after the storm—before the electricity in our house is turned back on—we’ll spend our evening hours talking by candlelight in the living room. Although possibly being a reminder of dozens of creepy ghost stories, I know we’ll feel comforted all being together inside it.

In fact, the ancient city had been discovered

by Malcolm Hardy, the employed archaeologist digging in the ancient burial grounds near the Andes Mountains.

Entrance and Exit Tickets: Entrance Ticket

Learning Target

Unnecessary Commas

Deleting Commas

ACT Practice

Embedded Test-Taking Strategies and Time Management Tips:

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Start and close each class period with an entrance/ exit ticket combo that helps you remove dead time, differentiate instruction, and measure progress.

Call-outs highlight opportunities to reinforce key test-taking and time management strategies.

Slide Decks:

Flexible Implementation:

Each lesson includes a PowerPoint slide deck that provides a visual focus for the class and illustrates key concepts.

Lesson plans for any session length (from 15 minutes to 1 hour 45 minutes) and any number of sessions (from a one-week prep program to a fullyear class), tailored to your students’ predicted ACT scale scores.

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Mastery for the ACT

Mastery on the ACT Mastery for the ACT works because it addresses the three areas that must be mastered to maximize score gains.

Time Mastery Every lesson includes timed practice and pacing techniques, so students go into the test with the time management habits they need to succeed.

Test Mastery Students who consider themselves “bad test-takers” gain a new perspective when they go through the Mastery for the ACT program.

Test-taking is a skill that can be learned just like anything else.

In every lesson of Mastery for the ACT, students learn essential techniques and tricks that help them master the ACT and standardized tests in general.

The program covers guessing strategies and the process of elimination as well as subject-specific strategies, like tricks for eliminating commas and how to make the most out of math figures.

Content Mastery Time management and test-taking strategies can only take students so far. In the end, students must know the content to win at the ACT. Mastery for the ACT takes up where many test prep programs leave off by providing key reinforcement for the academic skills that make the biggest impact on ACT scores. Over 100 hours of scaffolded lessons build student skill to the rigor of the ACT, while more than 1,600 ACT practice questions ensure that students are prepared for the exact way the ACT will be testing them.

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MasteryPrep Virtual Classroom Our team of facilitators can replicate an in-person experience with our virtual classrooms, so that your students can boost their scores from wherever they are.

Games, quizzes, fun discussions, and group activities keep the instruction engaging.

Our teachers take the time to answer students’ questions and help them through problems.

High-energy instructors make prep something students look forward to.

Print book compatibility and backup dial-in options make internet connection optional, and even a smartphone connection enables a full experience.

Our software platform enables real-time monitoring so we can proactively intervene before students tune out.

Class recordings enable students to review classes on demand and help them catch up if they miss a session.

Classes kept to conventional sizes so students get personal attention and assistance.

Our instructors are trained in and exemplify best practices in online teaching.

A full range of virtual solutions to complete your blended learning curriculum.

The following services are available in our virtual classroom environment.

All Boot Camps

All PD Programs

• Boot Camp for the ACT (p. 50)

• Decoding for the ACT (p. 10)

• Boot Camp for the SAT (p. 54)

• Decoding for the SAT (p. 14)

• Boot Camp for WorkKeys (p.67)

• Mastery Certification for the ACT/SAT (p. 16)

• Boot Camps for EOC (p. 58) • Boot Camp for the TSIA2 (p. 63)

Mastery for the ACT/SAT • One- to four-week Booster program • Saturday and after school courses • Summer programs • Semester- and full-year classes

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Virtual Classroom Options for Teachers Mastery for the ACT/SAT Use the MasteryPrep Virtual Classroom to run your own Mastery for the ACT/SAT courses! Comes pre-loaded with all content and fully compatible with print materials.

Regular Classes Use the virtual classroom as your meeting space for conducting regular classes to support distance and blended learning experiences.

Virtual Classroom Training MasteryPrep instructors undergo a rigorous training process that ensures they have not only mastered the test prep content but also that they are prepared to utilize and embody distance learning best practices.

The result is that students attending the MasteryPrep Virtual Classroom engage longer and get better results.

The same training we use to certify MasteryPrep instructors in distance learning is also available to schools in a 1-, 2-, or 3-day format for their teachers.

Here’s what students and educators have to say about our virtual classes: “The most helpful aspects of the week were when we had questions that he would fully describe in depth of how to

“I enjoyed that the instructor knew exactly what he was talking about, especially answering all of the questions.”

get to the right answer. He made it so much easier and understanding.”

“I would like to recommend this because it is an easy and modern way to get students to practice using and

“I loved how Mr. Kimberly chatted openly with us and asked us a lot of questions. It really felt like we were involved, and

discussing grammar rules and common errors made when writing.”

it really made the class flow.”

“I most enjoyed the speaker’s passion for helping students “Thanks so much to all of the instructors that have given of themselves the past few weeks: Kevin, Dan, and Zola, thanks

better themselves in their paths to success after high school.”

so much you guys!”

“The most helpful aspects of the week were when we had “I learned so much and our instructor definitely made the

questions that he would fully describe in depth of how to

skills so much easier and understanding! I definitely would

get to the right answer. He made it so much easier and

attend again!”

understanding.”

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Mastery for the SAT The first and only mastery-based SAT prep curriculum. Fits any schedule with zero teacher prep time.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Throughout the school year

Why Mastery for the SAT? • Highly effective for students scoring below college readiness

MASTERY FOR THE SAT AT A GLANCE:

• Comprehensive lesson plans make teachers instant SAT experts.

• Four student workbooks (Writing and Language, Reading, and two Math)

• Engaging classroom activities and built-in instructional differentiation

• Over 180 hours of content • Over 2,000 practice questions and 120 unique passages, more than any other program • Effective for students scoring from 700 to 1450 • Teacher manuals with scripted lessons for each subject area • Slide decks • Wrap-ups • Mini-tests • 2 full-length practice tests • Pacing guidelines • Direct support E-books available

• Everything you need for an effective, best-in-class SAT prep program • Ample content in Reading, Writing and Language, and Math to run a 180-hour course • Compatible with Khan Academy and all standard SAT and PSAT data reports

Implementation Models • One-semester course • Weekly core class integration • Intervention, advisory, or homeroom • Integration into non-core classes • 30- to 45-hour special pullout course or after-school session

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Mastery for the SAT provides a comprehensive review of every SAT content dimension and question type.

Writing and Language • 18 chapters, over 800 practice questions, 70 unique passages, and 36 test-taking tips.

• Unfailing punctuation shortcuts and rules of thumb your students won’t learn anywhere else.

• The SAT’s complex sentence structure makes applying grammar much more difficult, so we teach students how to tune out unnecessary phrases to determine what rules to use.

• The shortest answer isn’t always the best answer: we teach students how to accurately slice through redundancy and wordiness.

• 25 chapters, over 1,000 practice questions, 50 test-taking tips.

• Just because students get stuck doesn’t mean it’s over; our math guessing strategies help students make the most of a tough situation.

Math

• Students learn how many questions they can skip to reach their target score, how to avoid questions that won’t yield points, and how to stop running out of time.

• The most comprehensive content review of any SAT Math curriculum, from linear functions and ratios to triangles and nonlinear equations.

Reading • 11 chapters, over 500 practice questions, 40 unique passages, and 22 test-taking tips.

• The only curriculum that provides a skillby-skill content breakdown of the SAT Reading test.

• No matter what challenges your students experience when reading, they’ll learn how to use the test’s structure to their advantage and maximize points.

• The new SAT asks students to cite evidence for their answers. We show students how to use this to make the questions easier, not harder.

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A Closer Look at Mastery for the SAT Chapters: Every Mastery for the SAT chapter is structured to improve test-taking skills, time management, and content mastery.

Learning Targets

Warm-Up

Clear learning targets help students and teachers understand what they’ll accomplish by the end of the lesson.

Establishes performance baselines for each skill and helps teachers differentiate instruction.

Foundation

Approach

Review of the core content essential to success on each topic. Scaffolded lessons build confidence and skill.

In this section, we teach students how to quickly identify questions, problem solve, and check their work.

Strategy

Mini-Test

If students can’t solve the question, they can still use strategies to arrive at the correct answer.

Everything comes together in a timed simulation of an actual SAT test, with question types students just learned about interspersed with other items, just like a real testing environment.

Wrap-Up

Review

Provides a post-lesson comparison so teachers and students can track progress.

A quick reference guide summarizing the most important tips and strategies in the chapter.

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Mastery for the TSIA2 The first and only mastery-based TSIA2 prep curricula.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Throughout the school year

Why Mastery for the TSIA2?

MASTERY FOR THE TSIA2 AT A GLANCE: • 2 student workbooks (Math and ELAR) • 2 teacher manuals (one for each student workbook) • Over 90 hours of content • Over 300 practice items • Comprehensive teacher guides, answer explanations, student materials, PowerPoints, and teacher training.

• Learning targets • Warm-ups • Wrap-ups • Direct customer support • Virtual or in-person E-books available

• Helps students at all score ranges. Scaffolded course modules leave no student behind.

• Zero prep time required - teachers can focus on teaching instead of having to dig up content.

• Provides a uniquely engaging, effective, and differentiated lesson for every tested TSIA2 content standard.

• Makes college readiness straightforward and scalable.

Implementation Models • One semester course • Weekly core class or non-core class integration • Intervention, advisory, or homeroom • Special pullout course or after-school session • Full virtual classroom experience for blended learning environments

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Mastery for the TSIA2 provides a comprehensive review of every assessed standard on the TSIA2 and TEKS.

ELAR • 38 chapters and over 170 practice items.

• Each content chapter contains 2-3 exercises that build skills related to the question topic.

• Valuable test-taking tips woven into each chapter.

• The TSIA2’s correct answer choices don’t always follow a traditional sentence structure, so we teach students a variety of options that can help them identify complete, grammatically sound sentences.

• Reading questions often utilize the same strategy for trap answers: we teach students how to not only identify those traps but effectively avoid falling for them.

Math • 29 chapters and 130 total practice items.

• Each content chapter contains 2-3 exercises that build skills related to the question topic.

• Valuable test-taking tips woven into each chapter.

• Students don’t need to worry about time limits, but there’s always the potential to run out of mental energy. We offer students test-taking strategies that can help them save their brain power for the questions that really challenge their abilities.

• Just because students get stuck doesn’t mean it’s over; we offer a variety of strategies that can help students break that mental block and get moving towards an answer.

• Our curriculum provides the most comprehensive content review of any TSIA2 Math curriculum, from linear equations and triangles to data representation and unit conversion.

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The Structure of a Mastery for the TSIA2 Lesson Every section of a Mastery for the TSIA2 lesson is designed to stand on its own. You can use the lessons one after another for a one-semester course, or you can pick and choose resources from lessons and individual sections to suit your students’ needs.

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Chapter 29: Punctuation

Warm-Up TSIA2 STANDARD

CHAPTER 29

Essay Revision and Editing Standard English conventions

Punctuation

The student will edit text as necessary to ensure conformity to the conventions of standard written English grammar, usage, and punctuation.

In this chapter, students will determine whether and where commas are needed to set off or separate adjectives and parenthetical elements in sentences.

Sentence Revision, Editing, and Completion Conventions of punctuation The student will edit and complete sentences as needed to ensure conformity to the conventions

TEKS ALIGNMENT E1.9 Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts— writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and use appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:

SLIDE 258.1

Give students 5 minutes to complete the warm-up question.

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1. The correct answer is B. Choice A is incorrect because the phrase frolicking over fields of coral describes what the stingrays have been seen doing and is the object of the verb, so it should not be separated with a comma. Choice C is incorrect because it does not include a comma after wings to correctly separate the parenthetical element from the rest of the sentence. Choice D is incorrect because the adverbial phrase over fields of coral should not be separated from the verb frolicking. Choice B is correct because it correctly separates the parenthetical element twirling and flapping their wings from the rest of the sentence using commas.

(D) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: (v) punctuation, including commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes to set off phrases and clauses as appropriate.

LEARNING TARGETS 1. Identify and punctuate equal adjectives in a sentence.

2. Locate and punctuate parenthetical elements in a sentence.

3. Use the comma placement inconsistencies among answer choices as a way to identify potential equal adjectives or parenthetical elements.

Cover Page:

Includes a summary of what topic will be discussed in the chapter, along with a preview of what students will see in their workbook.

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Chapter 29: Punctuation

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Groundwork

TSIA2 Mastery: ELAR

Application

In this section, students will review two unconcise sentences and examine a solution that eliminates the problem.

Another common obstacle that can send readers stumbling through a sentence is wordiness. What happens when a sentence is too wordy?

It’s hard to figure out what it’s saying.

EXERCISE B

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Editing out extra words is only effective if we don’t cut out the important stuff. Imagine trying to cut the tag off of a new shirt and ending up with no sleeves and a hole across the shoulders. We need to pull it back and just cut the stuff we don’t want.

Did the writer get it right in sentence 6?

Yes, it’s concise without losing important information.

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We like our writing like we like our lectures: short and to the point. No one wants to listen to someone ramble, and adding all kinds of extra fluff to a sentence only gets in the way of what we’re trying to say. For example, let’s look at the first draft in number 4. Who’d like to read that for us?

“Muckraker” was a term referring to journalists who advocated for reform. “Muckraker” was also a word applied to Upton Sinclair, who was a journalist who investigated the unhygienic practices of meatpacking plants.

THE APPROACH When you are challenged to correctly punctuate descriptive words and phrases on the test, use the following steps …

1. Locate equal adjectives or parenthetical elements, if any appear.

2. Eliminate answer choices that contain incorrect comma placement.

By focusing on just the important details, the writer was able to communicate everything they wanted to without overcomplicating it with extra wordiness. Concision at its best.

10. Which version of the sentence below is punctuated correctly?

Cephalopods, a class of animals that includes octopuses and squids possess three separate hearts that pump oxygen-rich, blue-colored blood throughout their bodies.

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Whoa. That’s a lot of information crammed in there, and trying to pull out the details is a little like trying to untangle a ball of old Christmas lights. It’s definitely not fun and even a little frustrating. What about the first draft makes it not concise?

It’s repetitive. The sentence says muckraker and journalist more than once.

(as it is now)

B Cephalopods, a class of animals that includes octopuses and squids, possess three separate hearts that pump oxygen-rich, blue-colored blood throughout their bodies.

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Cephalopods, a class of animals that includes octopuses and squids possess three separate hearts that pump oxygen-rich blue-colored blood throughout their bodies.

D Cephalopods a class of animals that includes octopuses and squids possess three separate hearts that pump oxygen-rich, blue-colored blood throughout their bodies.

All the information is spread out across two sentences in such a way that the writer is getting repetitive when they really don’t need to be. How can they fix this?

They can edit it out of the sentence.

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Let’s see if they managed to do that in number 5. Is that sentence more concise?

Yes.

Groundwork:

Application:

A scaffolded lesson lets students review the basics of the standard and participate in skill-building activities that improve their grasp on the content.

Students learn how to identify question types, eliminate incorrect answers using a prescribed set of steps, and double-check their work.

But something went wrong. Why is this first revision not quite right?

It lost a lot of information.

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Chapter 12: Trap Answers

Chapter 29: Punctuation

Practice SLIDE 108.1

Wrap-Up SLIDE 265.1

Give students 10 minutes to complete the practice set.

Give students 5 minutes to complete the wrap-up question.

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1. The correct answer is D. Choice A is incorrect because it is an example of recycled words, using words like reasonable and fair to make it seem appealing. Choice B is incorrect because it is an outlier; benefits for local governments are not mentioned in either passage. Choice C is incorrect because it is a distractor. Though it seems possible that the author of Passage 2 would not agree with the author of Passage 1, there is no evidence to support the idea that the author of Passage 2 thinks the opposing author is purposely distorting and exaggerating their information. Choice D is correct because the author of Passage 2 explains how the equal tolling of drivers would be more challenging for the lower earner, who would have a more difficult time budgeting $50 each month to account for their driving needs, a fact that is unacknowledged in Passage 1.

2. The correct answer is A. Choices B and D are incorrect because naval officer is an adjectival phrase that should not be separated with a comma. Choice C is incorrect because the phrase the son of a naval officer father and Spanish-speaking mother should not be separated with a comma because it describes Franco as the son of a father and … mother.

Choice A is correct because it correctly offsets the parenthetical element the son of a naval officer father and Spanish-speaking mother from the sentence using commas.

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2. The correct answer is C. Choice A is incorrect because it is a distractor. The author does not specifically compare toll roads to non-toll roads. Choice B is incorrect because it contains recycled words, such as small, equal fee and budget. Choice D is incorrect because it is an outlier. The passage does not discuss the happiness of drivers in correlation to shorter commutes. Choice C is correct because the passage explains how those who drive the most pay the most because they use the road more frequently, which supports the idea that the cost of repairs is being spread equally among all drivers.

Practice:

Wrap-Up:

Three TSIA2-aligned test items provide isolated practice and an opportunity to hone newly acquired skills.

Another practice question, at the same difficulty level as the warm-up item, helps you evaluate students’ progress.

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SnapCourse

SnapCourse Better scores in a snap! Boost ACT, SAT, or TSIA2 test scores in as little as four weeks using our online test prep program.

How SnapCourse Works: DELIVERY TIMELINE: Throughout the school year

SNAPCOURSE AT A GLANCE: • Per student or sitewide licenses • Year-long access

SnapCourse for the ACT: • Over 100 lessons, 5,000+ videos, and 2,000+ unique practice questions

SnapCourse for the SAT: • Over 80 lessons, 4,000+ videos, and 2,000+ unique practice questions

SnapCourse for the TSIA2: • Over 30 hours, 5,000 videos, and 120 lessons tailored to cover TSIA2 assessed standards

• Time Management Strategies for the ACT and SAT: Students who complete this course learn to better manage their time. We teach students the techniques they need to beat the clock.

• Structure of the ACT, SAT, or TSIA2: This course helps students crack the code on the structure of the ACT, SAT, or TSIA2. Students learn how the test is set up, what kinds of questions it asks, and how to follow the test directions (as well as when it’s best not to).

• ACT, SAT, or TSIA2-Specific Test-Taking Strategies Some test items can be tricky, but in this course we show students how to use that fact to their advantage.

Students learn powerful strategies that can double the effectiveness of their guesses and give them an edge on test day.

• Lots of Practice Problems: Just because a student understands a grammar or math concept doesn’t mean that he or she is prepared for how it will be asked about. The course practice questions follow the format and rigor of real test questions.

• Subject-Specific Tips and Strategies: This course can help students make substantial gains in each subject area. For example: • How to ignore distractors in reading • How to avoid becoming confused by difficult terminology • Which math formulas students need to know

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Next Generation Online Learning Our course is powered by our proprietary SnapCourse authoring system, which means that your students experience a program that incorporates the latest developments in online learning.

• Micro-videos: Up to 30-second video clips stimulate a conversation rather than a lecture and keep students engaged. The average video length is only 10 seconds which helps keep students from losing focus.

• Learn by doing: Our course isn’t a wall of text or a river of passive video streams. Students never go a minute without taking part in a wide range of activities that vary snap to snap.

• Adaptive branching: No two students experience a SnapCourse the same way. If a student needs extra support to master a skill, the lesson will direct that student down a separate learning path that offers additional guidance to help them grasp the concept. After that, they can pick back up where they left off! Meanwhile, students who continue to show mastery of the skill can quickly continue on to more challenging topics.

• Hints and feedback: Students disengage when a question is too difficult. Our highly tailored hints and answer feedback gently prompt students toward the right direction, like a tutor over their shoulders, keeping them on track.

• Equitable access: Students access SnapCourse on any major browser, on any device, with no downloads required.

Here’s what our online course customers have to say: “MasteryPrep’s products are helping us raise our students’ ACT scores, and their customer service is second to none. We have been thoroughly pleased with every aspect of MasteryPrep’s services. They are a first class company with a first class product!”

- Nic Mounts, Centerpoint High School, AR “The MasteryPrep staff is always so friendly, professional, and provides immediate attention to every need and detail. The products are wonderful and the personal attention given to our schools and faculty in assisting with the implementation of resources is what makes this ACT initiative the best in the country.”

- Traci Aucoin, GEAR UP Director, Lafayette Parish School District, LA

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Mastery through Research and Development

The foundation of our curricula is deep research into standardized tests and student performance. We have extensively analyzed: • Over 20,000 actual ACT and SAT test items.

• Hundreds of ACT and SAT standards and content dimensions.

• Over 50 million student responses to ACT and SAT questions.

• Thousands of pages of test prep practices from across the industry.

• Decades of education research papers and best practices.

All of this means that—unlike any other ACT or SAT prep curriculum—our products are: • Proportional: We spend more time on what the test weighs most heavily and less time on what the test deems unimportant.

• Improvement-focused: We teach the skills students are most likely to be able to improve, not necessarily where they are the weakest.

• Comprehensive: We cover all of the major question variations that the ACT and SAT can throw at students and prepare students to be successful with each type.

• Up to date: We’ve built our programs from scratch from the most recent tests and are constantly analyzing newly released assessments for trends.

Mastery through Research and Development

What’s more, our curricula incorporate and enable many of the instructional best practices identified

by Hattie in Visible Learning as highly conducive to learning (effect size given in parentheses): • Strategy to integrate with prior knowledge (1.29) • Micro-teaching/video review of lessons (0.88) • Classroom discussion (0.82) • Scaffolding (0.82) • Deliberate practice (0.79) • Summarization (0.79) • Effort (0.77) • Mnemonics (0.76) • Feedback (0.70) • Learning goals (0.68) • Problem-solving teaching (0.68) • Meta-cognitive strategies (0.60) • Spaced vs. mass practice (0.60) • Direct instruction (0.60)

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Elements for the ACT

Elements for the ACT ACT-aligned classroom warm-up exercises for your smartboard. Freshmen and sophomores gain early reinforcement for the college readiness skills that matter most on the ACT, while juniors and seniors receive essential review before test day.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Throughout the school year

ELEMENTS FOR THE ACT AT A GLANCE: • Hundreds of practice questions and activities for English, Math, Reading, and Science • Each week of practice is built around a specific skill and gradually increases in difficulty

Why Elements for the ACT? • Daily reinforcement of ACT essential skills • Scaffolded approach builds confidence and competence • Better scores in just five minutes a day • The only ACT bell ringer program of its kind

• Unique topics fully aligned to ACT College Readiness Standards • Full, easy-to-follow explanations included for every question • High school and middle school items • Sitewide online license for teachers on smartboards for easy classroom display • Compatible with all web conferencing technology with screen share capabilities

Implementation Models • Classroom warm-ups (“do-nows” or “bell ringers”) • Homeroom or advisory activities • Embed in electives or core classes

Elements for the ACT

English

Math

• 22 unique topics fully aligned to ACT College

• 36 unique topics fully aligned to ACT College

Readiness Standards

Readiness Standards

• Over 375 practice questions

• Over 215 practice questions

• High school and middle school level

• High school and middle school level

• Smartboard compatible

• Smartboard compatible

Reading

Science

• 12 unique topics fully aligned to ACT College

• 24 unique topics fully aligned to ACT College

Readiness Standards

Readiness Standards

• Over 175 practice questions

• Over 140 practice questions

• High school and middle school level

• Middle school level

• Smartboard compatible

• Smartboard compatible

Elements for the ACT makes ACT prep easy for all teachers.

“It’s a perfect, quick daily review that lets me see who clearly needs to work on those skills.”

- L.J., Dyer County High School, TN “MasteryPrep gives a wide variety of questions that are aligned to the standards!”

- C.L., Lafayette Parish School System, LA “I like the problems, and they work well in the classroom.”

- A.H., Parkers Chapel Middle School, AR “The questions are reliable and valid. The format is user friendly as well. I believe the students benefit from it.”

- K.C., Scotlandville Magnet High School, LA

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Elements for the SAT

Elements for the SAT SAT-aligned classroom warm-up exercises for your smartboard.

Freshmen and sophomores gain early reinforcement for the college readiness skills that matter most on the SAT, while juniors and seniors receive essential review before test day.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Throughout the school year

Why Elements for the SAT? • Daily reinforcement of SAT essential skills

ELEMENTS FOR THE SAT AT A GLANCE:

• Scaffolded approach builds confidence and competence

• A set of practice questions to cover each SAT content dimension for Reading, Writing and Language, and Math

• Better scores in just five minutes a day • The only SAT bell ringer program of its kind

• Each week of practice is built around a specific skill and gradually increases in difficulty • More than 200 daily exercises • Full, easy-to-follow explanations included for every question

Implementation Models

• High school and middle school items

• Classroom warm-ups (“do-nows” or “bell ringers”)

• Sitewide online license for teachers on smartboards for easy classroom display • Educators can set a timer for each exercise and track completion per class period • Compatible with all web conferencing technology with screen share capabilities

• Homeroom or advisory activities • Embed in electives or core classes

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• Complete coverage for each SAT Content Dimension

• Complete coverage for each SAT Content Dimension

• Complete coverage for each SAT Content Dimension

• Over 75 sets of practice SAT questions

• Over 100 sets of practice SAT questions

• Over 50 sets of practice SAT questions

• Passage excerpts that directly align to the content and style of the SAT

• Items drawn from both No Calculator and Calculator variations found on the SAT

• Full-length passages that can be printed on demand

Elements for the SAT makes SAT prep easy for all teachers.

“The bell ringers are easy to follow and the questions and answers are on slides, and no searching is necessary.”

- T.D., Scarborough Middle School, AL “I would like to recommend this because it is an easy and modern way to get students to practice using and discussing grammar rules and common errors made when writing.”

- B.C., Union Parish School District, LA

“Convenient and relevant to what we’re teaching.”

- E.S., Henry County High School, TN “Makes bell work easy.”

- C.C., Gibson County High School, TN

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Elements for the TSIA2

Elements for the TSIA2 College readiness standards align to many middle school, 9th, and 10th grade state standards. So why do we wait until junior year to prep? With Elements for the TSIA2, you can provide your students with reinforcement of essential college readiness skills starting as early as 9th grade.

Why Elements for the TSIA2?

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Throughout the school year

• Daily reinforcement of TSIA2 college readiness standards • Better scores in just 5 minutes a day • Easy-to-use platform

ELEMENTS FOR THE TSIA2 AT A GLANCE: • Tons of practice questions and activities for ELAR and Math • Unique topics fully aligned to TSIA2 content dimensions • Sitewide online license for teachers on smartboards or screen share for easy classroom display • Zero prep work required

• The first and only complete TSIA2 bell ringer program • Covers every TSIA2 standard that appears on the test

Implementation Models • Classroom warm-ups (“do-nows” or “bell ringers”) • Homeroom or advisory activities • Embed in electives or core classes

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Elements for the TSIA2 provides a TSIA2-aligned item platform that enables teachers to incorporate TSIA2 exercises into their daily curriculum without any prep work.

Exercises are organized by standard and represent a variety of question types. Students gradually master the college readiness skill by simply completing the activities. Every exercise includes a detailed, student-friendly explanation, which prevents your warm-up activity from eating into class time.

What’s Included: ELAR

Math

• 21 unique topics fully aligned to TSIA2 standards

• 20 unique topics fully aligned to TSIA2 standards

• 100+ practice questions

• 100+ practice questions

• Content for all levels of high school

• Content for all levels of high school

• Smartboard and screen share compatible

• Smartboard and screen share compatible

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Boot Camp for the ACT

Boot Camp for the ACT Better ACT scores in one day!

In just one day, students will learn: • Pacing and time management • Test-taking and guessing strategies • Tips for the most important question types

Why Boot Camp for the ACT? DELIVERY TIMELINE: Up to one month before test date

• Students learn exactly what they need in the “final hours” before the test.

• Improves student confidence • Students don’t run out of time after attending the Boot Camp.

• Levels the playing field; an effective way for all of your students to experience high-quality prep

BOOT CAMP FOR THE ACT AT A GLANCE: • Six-hour in-person workshop or four-hour virtual workshop • Engaging, expert in-person or virtual instructor • Workbook for each student with exercises to complete during the event and additional practice leading up to test day

E-books available

• Very easy to schedule: you provide the space, and we take care of everything else. No attendance limits.

• Makes test prep fun and less overwhelming for students

Implementation Models • Full-day workshop during school hours • After-school or Saturday programming • Virtual and in-person programs available

Boot Camp for the ACT

A small sample of what your students will learn about in the Boot Camp for the ACT:

ACT Test-Taking Stategies • A million reasons to improve ACT scores • How many correct answers are needed for a desired score • A five-minute lesson on how to guess twice as effectively

English • The difference between the right answer and the best answer • Which punctuation mark impacts 20% of the English score

Math • What to do when their mind draws a blank during the test • How to turn a word problem into something more solvable

Reading • What question type determines over a third of the Reading score • How to stop overthinking

Science • The scientific method in five minutes • How to spot contradictions

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Boot Camp for the ACT

Forrest County School District Forrest County School District posted the largest ACT growth in Mississippi, leaping from an average composite score of 15.9 to 18.2 (2.3-point increase). It was the second year in a row that a MasteryPrep partner school posted the highest ACT growth in Mississippi. Forrest County has partnered with MasteryPrep since 2016.

North Forrest High School, located in Eatonville County, Miss., is the only high school in the Forrest County School District, with 375 students in grades 7 -12. Thirty-two percent of students belong to minorities, and 71 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Forrest County ACT Scores 18.5

#1 Improving District, 2 Years in a Row For the second year in a row, a MasteryPrep Partner posted the largest ACT growth in the state of Mississippi.

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Through the years of its partnership with MasteryPrep, Forrest County has also relied on the Boot Camp for

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the ACT, and in 2019 rolled out the College Playbook, MasteryPrep’s student-friendly guide to college admissions.

Unpaid testimonial. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. ACT score average and gain data courtesy of The Mississippi Department of Education. All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

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Boot Camp for the ACT Success: Berea College Upward Bound Math and Science, Tennessee “During the summer, I taught at a 6 week camp for high school students. We gave each student a pre- and post-test. The results after using MasteryPrep were AMAZING! Out of 30 students, TWENTY of them improved their ACT scores! Some as much as 7 points! I am sold on the wonders of MasteryPrep.”

- Kimberly Hamilton, ACT prep teacher Berea College Upward Bound Math and Science, Berea, KY

*Unpaid testimonial. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. ACT score average and gain data courtesy of MasteryPrep client administering and scoring a practice ACT test before and after the camp. All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

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Boot Camp for the SAT

Boot Camp for the SAT Better SAT scores in one day!

In just one day, students will learn: • Pacing and time management • Test-taking and guessing strategies • Tips for the most important question types

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Up to one month before test date

Why Boot Camp for the SAT? • The only one-day workshop designed to help students meet SAT College and Career Readiness Benchmarks • Easy to schedule

BOOT CAMP FOR THE SAT AT A GLANCE: • Six-hour in-person workshop or four-hour virtual workshop • Engaging, expert in-person or virtual instructor • Workbook for each student with exercises to complete during the event and additional practice leading up to test day • SAT and PSAT versions available

E-books available

• Students master time management and learn dozens of test-taking techniques and guessing strategies.

Implementation Models • Full-day workshop during school hours • After-school or Saturday programming • Virtual and in-person programs available

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Students love our Boot Camp for the SAT “The Boot Camp helps you prepare yourself for the SAT and is super helpful. They taught really useful test-taking strategies.”

“The teacher is knowledgeable, and the content is great.” “[The presenter] was always super upbeat and made sure we were happy and understood what was going on.”

“This is really helpful, and it will help me when I take my SAT. I would recommend this to all my friends.”

“It’s everything you want if you want to score high. I had a

“This Boot Camp will help improve your time management skills during a test.”

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; you will regret it if you don’t take it.”

“I appreciate this program; it really changed my mindset on the test.”

“Excellent way to study for the PSAT.” “This is my first time at such an event, and I loved it!”

great time and would love to come again.”

And educators do, too!

“I really am happy that we brought MasteryPrep to Sandburg for our students. I think our instructor was knowledgeable as well as engaging! It is very challenging to keep the attention of a room full of high school students for over 5 hours! However, she did an amazing job, and the students’ evaluations indicated that they learned a lot and were happy that they came!”

- Stephanie Woodard, Upward Bound Director Carl Sandburg College, IL “Our administration and counselor were very impressed. Facilitator was great!”

- Sonya King, College Access Coordinator John Marshall Harlan High School, IL “The students felt the strategies that were shared, especially in math, were extremely helpful.”

- Alicia Williams Lovelace, College Access Coordinator Morgan Park High School, IL “One of the best forums for students learning the SAT tips and strategies.”

- Roland Doon, Teacher Percy L. Julian High School, IL

The MasteryPrep instructor was great! She really captured the students’ attention. She really knew how to speak to high school students and was very pleasant throughout both sessions. She shared personal stories that students could relate to, and they truly appreciated her.

- Monica Martinez, College Access Coordinator Hubbard High School, IL

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What do we teach in the Boot Camp for the SAT?

Reading • The most difficult passage is not the last passage. Students learn to read the passages in a unique sequence that helps them avoid running out of time and losing points needlessly.

• One question in each passage is almost always the hardest. Students learn how to deal with it and avoid having it shake their confidence.

• We give students tips for actively reading the passages and avoiding common pitfalls that eat up all their time without giving them any points.

• Citing evidence questions require students to give justification for their answers. This adds to item difficulty, but students who have attended the Boot Camp can use this structure to their advantage.

• College Board has touted that they have eliminated esoteric vocabulary questions, but what they have really done is shift the focus to context. We show students how to use answer choices like a built-in dictionary to arrive at the correct answer.

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Writing and Language • Questions gradually increase in difficulty, which makes time management tricky.

We show students how to manage their time and maximize their points.

• Punctuation marks can kill your students’ scores but not if students apply the tricks they learn in the Boot Camp to semicolons, colons, and commas.

• On some questions, students end up guessing, but in the Writing and Language test, some guesses are far superior to others.Students will learn how to play the odds on the SAT to maximize their scores.

• Some students will overthink their way to the wrong answer—unless they follow our tips in the Boot Camp.

• Answers that sound right are often wrong, but we show how students can use their ear to their advantage with a tip they won’t find anywhere else.

Math • The Math test is half your students’ score, which is why we devote half of the content time in the SAT Boot Camp to math.

• Simple errors kill SAT Math scores. In the Boot Camp, we catalog the most common errors and help students avoid making them.

• Students may not be used to the grid-in format that appears at the end of each Math section—at least not until they complete the Boot Camp.

• All Math questions are worth the same number of points, but as students progress, the questions gradually increase in difficulty—with an important caveat. We show students how to approach the Math questions in a new

sequence that ensures they have time to get to the easy questions. (Some of your students are missing out on simple questions at the back of the test!)

• One strategy trumps all others in Math, but it requires that your students have a deep understanding of how it works and how to extend it to the trickiest questions that the Math test can throw at them.

• Your students will learn the guessing strategies that convert blind guesses into extra points—strategies that only high-end SAT tutors are teaching.

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Boot Camps for End of Course

Boot Camps for End of Course Better End of Course scores in one day!

You’ve worked all year to help your students master the content. Our Boot Camps help you bridge your students’ content proficiency to how it will actually be tested.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Up to one month before test date

BOOT CAMPS FOR EOC AT A GLANCE: • Three-hour workshop • Engaging, expert in-person or virtual instructor • Workbook for each student with exercises to complete during the event and additional practice leading up to test day

Boot Camps for Geometry available: • Louisiana LEAP 2025 Geometry

Boot Camps for Algebra I available: • Louisiana LEAP 2025 Algebra I • Mississippi Algebra I MAAP • North Carolina NC Math I • Texas STAAR Algebra I

In just one day, students will learn: • Core skills for success in algebra and geometry • Pacing and time management • Test-taking and guessing strategies that really work • How to overcome test anxiety and put their best foot forward on test day

Why Boot Camps for End of Course?

• Up-to-date practice questions tailored to your state’s EOC tests • Students review exactly what they need in the “final hours” before the test.

• Improves student confidence • Easy to schedule, during the school day or on the weekend • Makes test prep fun and less overwhelming for students

Implementation Models • Up to a full-day workshop during school hours

E-books available

• After-school or Saturday programming • Virtual and in-person programs available

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LEAP Geometry Passing Grade East Feliciana High School 60% 50%

Students gave this event 4.45 stars out of 5!

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“It’s the most helpful event I have ever been to. I hope I get to go back.”

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“It gave me a refresher of material I might have forgotten. The content was outstanding. It was great. I would love to

End of Course Success: East Feliciana High School, Louisiana East Feliciana High School serves 382 students in Louisiana from grades 8–12. 93% of its students belong to minorities, and 86% are eligible for free or reduced lunch. After conducting a Boot Camp for LEAP 2025 Geometry, the percentage of students scoring a passing grade increased from 22% to 57%.

Educator Feedback: “A huge thank you to Mr. Kimberly (MasteryPrep’s instructor). He

come again.”

“The presenter actually helped me find quicker ways to answer the questions.”

“The Boot Camp teaches you things you didn’t know and helps you with things you did not understand.”

had our students engaged and answering and asking questions.

The way he broke down the information to our students was in a way that it made them think. Overall, it was a great experience for all the students and the Algebra I teacher. Thanks again for this opportunity.”

- Mico Cooper, Counselor

*Unpaid testimonial. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. LEAP score date courtesy of MasteryPrep client district and based on comparison of prior and served cohorts. All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

“It was helpful with the stuff that’s going to be on the test.”

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Harnett County Schools End of Course Grade-Level Progress 55 50 45 2016–17 2017–18

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Boot Camp for End of Course Success: Harnett County Schools, North Carolina Harnett County Schools serves 20,800 students in North Carolina. 37% of its students belong to racial minorities, and 58% are enrolled in free or reduced lunch. In 2018, MasteryPrep delivered Boot Camps for NC Math I EOC to Harnett Central High, Overhills High, and Western Harnett High. These schools saw major improvements in both grade-level progress and college and career readiness on the NC Math I test.

Here’s what Harnett educators had to say:

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Student Feedback:

“An easy way to help you study.”

“Continue this. It helped people like me who struggle.”

“(MasteryPrep’s instructor) did a GREAT job, and our students feel much more confident about taking the test from attending her boot camp!”

“Exciting to learn math!!”

- Sara Williamson, Harnett Central High “(MasteryPrep’s instructor) is fabulous! She always does an incredible job, and our students absolutely love her!!”

- Nicole Fischer, Harnett Central High

“It’s a great learning experience and I would totally do it again.”

*Unpaid testimonials. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. End of Course data courtesy of NC DPI and based on comparing 2016-17 and 2017-18 schoolwide metrics. All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

“THIS WAS AMAZING!!!”

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Boot Camp for End of Course Success: Lumberton High School, North Carolina Lumberton High School was one of the first North Carolina schools to implement our Boot Camp for NC Math I, and has since realized gains on its NC Math I proficiency scores for two consecutive years. Lumberton serves 2,114 students, 74% of whom belong to racial minorities, and 99% of whom are eligible for free lunch. The school’s gains in Math proficiency helped to propel their school performance grade from a D to a C!

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Student Feedback:

“You need to take this. It’s amazing and will really help you!”

“This is a very helpful program that can help you on the final exam.”

“He explained everything in a fun and

“Facilitator was wonderful and the students loved him. They were engaged and enjoyed the session.”

- Kelsey Cummings, Assistant Principal

interesting way!”

“Really cool math teacher. He makes things easier.”

*Unpaid testimonials. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. End of Course data courtesy of NC DPI and based on comparing 2016-17 and 2017-18 schoolwide metrics. All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

“Excellent!”

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Boot Camp for End of Course Success: Granville County Schools Granville County Schools adopted the Boot Camp for NC Math I EOC in 2018 and saw immediate increases in their scores. J.F. Webb High School improved its math college readiness levels by over 10%, while South Granville High School’s grade-level progress percentage (GLP) increased by 7.6%.

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Student Feedback: “Helps with overall exam strategies for math. Thank you for this experience.”

“I was terrible at factoring, but now I get it.”

“It was a really great learning experience for me and helpful for the future, learning new strategies from another teacher’s perspective.”

“You should really think about going to the Boot Camp because it is awesome. Keep doing what you people are doing.

Y’all are amazing.”

“The most helpful part was the book. It had everything to help me. It’s helpful to anyone who wants to succeed in math.

Everything was good/great.”

I was worried at first, but it was actually very helpful.

You helped me a lot. THANK YOU.

Boot Camp for the TSIA2

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Boot Camp for the TSIA2 Better TSIA2 scores in one day! In just one day, students will learn: • Key content for success • Essential test-taking techniques • Tips on how to handle the toughest TSIA2 questions

Why Boot Camp for the TSIA2?

• Effective guessing strategies • Easy to schedule • Effective last-minute prep, during the school day or on the weekend

DELIVERY TIMELINE:

• Up-to-date TSIA2 practice questions • Virtual and in-person programs available.

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BOOT CAMP FOR THE TSIA2 AT A GLANCE: • Four-hour workshop • Engaging, expert in-person or virtual instructor • Workbook for each student with exercises to complete during the event and additional practice leading up to test day

juniors and 13 seniors. After the program, every single attendee met the targeted benchmarks. The seniors were all eligible to enroll in the Texas Southern University summer school program and start coursework, but they had to meet TSIA benchmarks.

Doing well on the writing section of the TSIA Boot Camp was a game changer for our students. They enjoyed having the books. It made a difference that they could keep the books beyond the boot camp and

E-books available

use them to refine their skills leading up to their test date. We’re already planning our next TSIA and SAT Boot Camps with MasteryPrep.”

- Jose Cavazos, Academic Advisor Upward Bound Programs Texas Southern University

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Mastery for WorkKeys

Mastery for WorkKeys Help more students earn a National Career Readiness CertificateTM with the most comprehensive WorkKeys test prep curriculum available. Mastery for WorkKeys is the only program specifically designed to help students earn a Silver NCRC.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Up to one month before test date

Why Mastery for WorkKeys?

• Remedial curriculum helps students earn Silver NCRCs. • Thousands of practice questions prepare students for every question type.

• Step-by-step explanations simplify tough concepts and build confidence.

• Updated for the new WorkKeys tests

MASTERY FOR WORKKEYS AT A GLANCE:

Implementation Models

• Three student workbooks

• Mastery for WorkKeys is a supplementary workbook set that can be integrated into electives or CTE classes, used as classroom warmup activities, or serve as a resource for targeted interventions.

• Teacher editions with detailed explanations • Over 2,000 practice questions • Includes two full-length practice tests

E-books available

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Stanley and Logansport High Schools ACT + WorkKeys Index

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“We did great this year! We surpassed our goals at both Logansport and Stanley High Schools. Much of the growth was due to WorkKeys. We had a tremendous amount of success with WorkKeys. At LHS in August, the seniors’ index was 50, and we are currently at 80.5! At SHS in August, the seniors’ index was 81. SHS ended the year at 100.6! In such a rural area, the WorkKeys test has proven to be extraordinarily beneficial to so many students, giving them opportunities they didn’t think they would have.”

- Pamela Stewart, Logansport and Stanley High Schools, Louisiana *Unpaid testimonial. Individual results may vary, and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. ACT and WorkKeys accountability index courtesy of Louisiana Department of Education. All testimonials are real participants, and may not reflect the typical user’s experience, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

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Mastery for WorkKeys

Mastery for WorkKeys: Applied Math Mastery for WorkKeys: Applied Math focuses on students’ ability to solve problems, think critically, and calculate workplace mathematics. Students will learn more about employing mathematical operations to solve word problems; convert numbers between fractions, decimals, and percentages; and solve problems that deal with negative numbers, money, and time.

Mastery for WorkKeys: Graphic Literacy In Mastery for WorkKeys: Graphic Literacy, students learn to decipher and analyze a variety of visual depictions that are likely to arise in a workplace environment. Hundreds of practice questions improve students’ ability to understand a wide range of real-world figures and graphics. Students learn how to read and fill out complicated forms; practice reading maps, plans, tables, graphs, and diagrams; improve their ability to locate and use data; and experience a wide variety of information presentation styles.

Mastery for WorkKeys: Workplace Documents Mastery for WorkKeys: Workplace Documents improves students’ ability in reading and understanding written text from actual work situations.

Lessons and practice questions emphasize comprehending letters, emails, instructions, memos, notices, policies, and regulations. Students learn to pay attention to important details, how to follow step-bystep instructions, how to filter a problem when dealing with too much information, and a variety of ways to decipher unfamiliar words.

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Boot Camp for WorkKeys Better WorkKeys scores in one day! Ideal for students who need to earn a Silver or Gold National Career Readiness Certificate.

In just one day, students will learn: • Pacing and time management • Test-taking strategies that work for the WorkKeys test • Tips for the most frequently tested question types

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Up to one month before test date

BOOT CAMP FOR WORKKEYS AT A GLANCE:

Why Boot Camp for WorkKeys?

• Four-hour in-person workshop or three-hour virtual workshop

• The only one-day workshop designed to help students earn their National Career Readiness Certificate

• Engaging, expert in-person or virtual instructor • Workbook for each student with exercises to complete during the event and additional practice leading up to test day

• Easy to schedule, during the school day or on the weekend • Effective prep just before students take the test • Virtual and in-person programs available.

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About the National Career Readiness Certificate The ACT WorkKeys assessment validates that students have the necessary skills for success in careers. Students who meet certain score thresholds earn Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum National Career Readiness Certificates, credentials that can dramatically improve students’ work opportunities and salary prospects after graduating high school.

Learn more at www.act.org/certificate.

Student Feedback: “Educational, important, and helpful.”

“A helpful way to study and get prepared before the

I believe this Boot Camp was beneficial for our students and helped them gain confidence for the WorkKeys test. Thank you!

- Laura Brower Calhoun County Career & Technical Center, MS

test.”

“Boot Camp was fun!”

“Loved it! Keep doing these Boot Camps!”

“I am now confident about the test.”

“A good experience for someone who might not be the best test taker.”

“Very beneficial to my test-taking practices for the WorkKeys.”

“Great experience, life changing.”

“It’s very educational and helps work out test stress.”

“Super useful prior to testing.”

“Best way to further knowledge for WorkKeys.”

“Fun, good preparation, helpful.”

“Really good, and I learned a lot.”

The College Playbook

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The College Playbook The comprehensive guide to college admissions that students will actually read.

The college application process can be intimidating and overwhelming. How do your students know if they’re on the right track? They need a game plan.

The College Playbook sets up a student’s high school years for college success.

Students will benefit from the same guidance and down-to-earth advice that has helped students across the nation find the best college for their passions and skills.

DELIVERY TIMELINE: Throughout the school year

COLLEGE PLAYBOOK AT A GLANCE: • Workbook with interactive worksheets • Dozens of tools and guides • Extensive glossary builds vocabulary • Written by college admissions expert Lucas Spielfogel

In this book, you will find: • The Big Five—what colleges really want to see in your application • Everything you need to know about standardized tests (including the SAT, ACT, and TOEFL, among others) • How time management, setting goals, and creating healthy habits can make the most out of your high school career • Tips on how to tell your “whole story” in your personal statement • Advice on how to understand (and appeal) your financial aid award • Guidance on how to compare exact costs among colleges so that you make the most budgetfriendly decision • Free online resources with bonus material

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The College Playbook

A complete guide to college admissions:

Grade-by-grade timelines keep students on track. Example resumes with critiques provide real-world context and practical advice.

Time management tools and strategies help students adjust to high school and prepare for college.

Dozens of tips for finding colleges that fit and avoiding undermatching

Step-by-step walkthroughs for every aspect of the college application process

The College Playbook

Pro essay-writing tips loaded with practical examples and line by line commentary

Guidance on how to make a great impression during the interview

Undocumented immigrant? Homeschooled?

Disability? Want to attend a military college? The Playbook has it covered.

Help on calculating the total cost of college and applying for aid, scholarships, and loans

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The College Playbook Workshop Series In these engaging, impactful one-hour workshops, students and parents get the inside scoop on how to win in the college admissions process.

• Expert instructors bring the concepts in the College Playbook to life, in person or virtually.

• Demystify the college-going experience.

• Provide your students and parents with a detailed roadmap to college admissions success.

Student Workshops:

• On Track for College

Parent Workshops:

• How to Get Your Child On Track for College

Professional Development:

• Two-day training on delivering all College Playbook workshops

• College Milestones: Grade 9 • College Milestones: Grade 9

printables, and powerpoint slides

• College Milestones: Grade 10 • College Milestones: Grade 10 • College Milestones: Grade 11 • College Milestones: Grade 11 • College Milestones: Grade 12 • College Milestones: Grade 12 • The Best College for You • The Best College for Your Child • College Application 101 • College Application 101 • College Essay Introduction • How to Help Your Child with • College Essay Workshop • Time Management • Paying for College

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College Essays • Paying for College

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Committed to Success MasteryPrep is committed to your success. It’s possible to create a college-going culture in your school and to boost test scores, but it’s never easy! To improve outcomes for hundreds or thousands of students, there are a lot of moving parts. It requires the administration, faculty, and MasteryPrep staff to all work together as a coordinated team toward the common goal. We have found that the four ingredients to implementation success are: ONBOARDING

RESPONSIVENESS

USAGE

RESULTS

Success plan development, stakeholder buy-in, and training

Rapid, direct support for all users

Progress reports, usage tracking, and on-going coaching

Data analysis and program improvement planning

School Support Management MasteryPrep’s School Support Managers help customers implement our programs with fidelity to get the best results. MasteryPrep’s School Support Managers use the following tools to help you make the most of MasteryPrep’s products and services and achieve success.

“EVERYONE in your organization has been top notch. All are

“Every time I’ve reached out for help, the response has been

patient and accommodating. It has been a pleasure to work

timely, thoughtful, RESPECTFUL, and appropriate. I’m

with you this year.”

thankful that MasteryPrep is always available when I need

- Jana Comstock, Bethel Christian School, LA

them.”

- Laela Bunn, Pike Road High School, AL

“I wish you could choose more than one selection here, because this program fits them all. My biggest praise,

“You all made sure to answer my questions carefully so that

however, is that the few times I’ve had technical difficulties

I could understand what you were telling me. And as soon

they have gotten right on it and had it resolved in minutes

as I needed something done, it was done. I appreciate you

in most cases. I highly recommend MasteryPrep!”

all and what you’re doing. Thanks so much for the help!”

- Christopher Conger, John Overton High School, TN

- Berryville School District, AR

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About MasteryPrep

Our Story MasteryPrep’s founder, Craig Gehring, earned perfect scores on the ACT and SAT while still in high school.

He started tutoring, and soon he realized that there was no ACT or SAT prep program designed for underperforming students: everything was geared toward helping high-income students compete for the top schools. What’s more, the students who most needed the help with their ACT and SAT scores could not afford any prep at all. If low-income students were going to have the same level of preparation as their more affluent peers, it needed to happen systemically—through the schools themselves.

MasteryPrep developed ACT Mastery—the first mastery-based ACT prep curriculum—and piloted it successfully with 200 students at two high schools.

As word of mouth spread, MasteryPrep went from those two initial school partnerships to more than 100 in its first year.

MasteryPrep has added products and services to meet runaway demand, including practice testing and reporting, bell ringers, and online software, and has increased personnel from less than ten to more than 100 to ensure all customers and students have quality experiences with MasteryPrep products and services.

MasteryPrep has been listed as the nation’s fastestgrowing K-12 education company two years in a row (Inc. 500 2016 and 2017) and in 2017 became the preferred provider of ACT preparation for the Council for Opportunity in Education.

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a temporary shutdown of schools, disrupting in-person learning. Like all educational providers, MasteryPrep had to pivot to a virtual platform to continue providing college readiness resources to, at the time, its more than 200,000 students. MasteryPrep launched an online adaptive test prep program and released a new course offering platform that over the last two years has helped the company double its student reach, impacting nearly 400,000 students through partnerships with 625 school districts and institutions.

Since 2012 , we have helped more than one million low-income students achieve college readiness at no cost to the students or their families. And we’re just getting started.

About MasteryPrep

OUR PURPOSE To level the playing field in education.

OUR VALUES Customers Are Forever This company is for them.

Go Pro Or go home. Get better than the best.

Do Right Period.

Make It Happen Excuses never built anything.

Make It Awesome There is no equality without quality.

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Academic Timeline

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Boot Camp for the ACT

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Boot Camp for the SAT

54

Boot Camp for the TSIA2

63

Boot Camp for WorkKeys

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Index

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Boot Camps for End of Course

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Committed to Success

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Decoding: Professional Development for the SAT

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Decoding: The Teacher’s Guide to Prep for the ACT

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Elements for the ACT

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Elements for the SAT

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Elements for the TSIA2

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Mastery Certification Course for the ACT/SAT

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Mastery for the ACT

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Mastery for the SAT

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Mastery for the TSIA2

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Mastery for WorkKeys

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MasteryPrep Ready

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MasteryPrep Ready for the ACT

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MasteryPrep Ready for the SAT

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MasteryPrep Ready for the TSIA2

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SnapCourse 40

Study Hall

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The College Playbook

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TruScore Testing & Analysis

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“MasteryPrep stands out as a refreshingly data-driven force in an ocean of monotony. Other resources offer vague promises, but MasteryPrep delivers on promised results for our educators and students.”

Barry Lofton

Executive Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Pre-College Programs University of Central Oklahoma

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