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Regents Test Preperation Options

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The Regents’ Test for reading and writing is required for graduation from any institution in the University System of Georgia. Don't wait to sign up! You can take the test starting your very first semester. Come get some help in preparing: research shows that it you fail either portion, the chances increase that you'll fail again, which increases your chances for failure again...it's like developing a bad habit. Let us help you get it right and get it over with the first time.

Test dates: Jun 22-23, 2009. Register to take the test through Banner.
Locations and times - all workshops are two hours long.
Exemptions (see if you are exempt!)

Fall 2009 Face-to-Face Workshops

Writing Time Location
September 17 5pm SSC
October 21 4pm SSC
     

Reading Time Location
September 15 5pm SSC
September 16 4pm SSC
October 22 5pm SSC

Test anxiety? Problems managing your time? We offer other workshops in collaboration with the Counseling Center throughout the semester. Click here for the current schedule.

Online Workshops

Online workshop for writing portion (interactive!)

Online workshop for reading portion (interactive!)

What is the Regents Test?

The Regent’s Test is a test created by the University System of Georgia to ensure that every person receiving a college degree had a uniform standard of reading and writing proficiency.  The Test consist of two portions: The Reading Section and The Writing Section.   College Students are required to take two English courses(normally English 1101 and 1102) which teach students the required skills to pass the test.  Students are required to take the Regent’s Test after they have received 45 credit hours and they must register for the test each semester afterwards until a passing grade is attained.     

The Reading Test

The Reading Test is an one hour test with 54 questions in the multiple-choice form.  There are 9 passages dealing with a variety of subjects (social science, mathematics and natural science, and humanities) for the students to read which will have between 5 and 9 questions to be answered. The passages can be written in the forms of exposition (informational), narration (story), and argumentation (persuasive). The questions that accompany the passages of the Reading Test have been designed to emphasis four major aspects of reading: (1) Vocabulary, (2) Literal Comprehension, (3) Inferential Comprehension, and (4) Analysis.

PASSAGE ONE

A mass production line is essentially a timing
machine which moves goods from place to place in
a given time. In that given time, a man has to be
available to perform a given task. He is, in fact, in
many ways a slave of the machine. It fixes his time
and fixes his movements, and he has to produce a
series of semi-intelligent mechanical motions to keep
the machine fed and moving. This is what I mean
by saying that mechanization is his master.
Automation, on the contrary, by being a
self-adapting and a changing piece of mechanism,
enables a man to work at whatever pace he wants to
work, because the machine will react to him. He is
the master of the machine, except in the simpler
processes. The machine that forms part of an
automated system is not predetermined: this kind of
machine gives information and suggests a course of
action, but it does not necessarily say "I won't
wait."

1. In the last sentence, the "I" referred to in "I won't wait" is

1. intelligence.
2. a machine.
3. a man.
4. time.


2. Man is servant to the machine in

1. business.
2. the work force.
3. automation.
4. the mass production line.


3. With which of the following statements would the author agree?

1. Automation and the mass production line work equally well.
2. Neither automation nor the mass production line works
well.
3. Automation is more flexible than the mass production line.
4. The mass production line is more flexible than automation.


4. Which of the following does the author primarily use in this passage?

1. comparison-contrast
2. narration
3. specific examples
4. personal experience


5. This passage fails to mention the

1. definition of the mass production line.
2. shortcomings of automation.
3. advantages of automation.
4. shortcomings of the mass production line.

Practice Regent’s Reading Test.

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwrtp/instrdg.htm

The Writing Test

The Writing Test last one hour.  Students will be given 4 topics from which they should select one.  The paper will then be hand written to address the topic chosen.

Sample Writing Questions

  • Discuss the influence that advertising has had on your life or the lives of your friends.
  • If you were asked to make a fair evaluation of your teachers, what criteria would you use for the evaluation? Discuss.
  • What influence should students have in the determination of college policies? Explain.
  • Has college made you less sure about what is right and what is wrong? Discuss.
  • How has your attitude toward your home (either town or family) changed between the time you entered college and now? Discuss.
  • If your doctor told you that you had only a few months to live, how would you alter your way of life? Discuss.
  • Name someone you consider to be a modern hero or heroine and explain why.
  • Do college students benefit from participation in extracurricular activities? Explain.
  • Is too much emphasis placed on grades in our educational system? Explain.
  • Should government employees such as police officers and fire fighters have the right to strike? Discuss.
  • What advice would you give to an entering college freshman? Discuss.
  • Should prostitution be legalized? Discuss.
  • Which courses that you did not take in high school do you now wish you had taken? Why?
  • Research indicates that you and your friends are likely to have fewer children than your parents and grandparents. What do you think are reasons for this? Explain.
  • What makes one college course more enjoyable than another? Explain.
  • Should smoking in public places be illegal? Explain why or why not.
  • "Professional athletes and entertainers are among the highest paid people in this country -- and justifiably so." Agree or disagree.
  • What are the characteristics of a good college student? Explain.
  • Should college students have complete freedom to choose their own courses? Discuss.
  • If you were to be deprived of one of your five senses (sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing) which one would you most hate to give up? Explain.