Praxis Core Writing 5723 Study Guide
This Praxis Core Writing (5723) study guide teaches every topic on the ETS content outline for the test, category by category and weighted the way the test is weighted: the grammar, usage and punctuation rules behind the selected-response questions, revision in context, research skills, and both 30-minute essays. Built for future teachers, education majors and career changers who need to pass the Core writing test for a teacher-prep program or license.
78 pages. 120 original practice questions (two full-length 40-question practice tests plus 40 bonus drills), each with a rationale that explains the right answer and the most tempting wrong one, plus 4 practice essay prompts with scoring notes and a model response for each.
WHAT'S INSIDE
• The 5723 test at a glance: 40 selected-response questions in 40 minutes and two 30-minute essays, the two content categories and their weights, the four question types, how the essays are scored on the six-point scale, the 100–200 score scale, and why passing scores are set by each state (with examples)
• Registration, at-home vs. test-center rules, breaks, rescheduling and the 28-day retake wait
• Strategy for usage, sentence-correction, revision-in-context and research questions, with a pacing plan
• Category I: revision in context (unity, order, transitions, combining sentences, support, tone), the argumentative essay and the informative/explanatory essay, with six annotated sample essays at three score levels, 30-minute plans and planning templates
• Category II: sentence basics, subject–verb agreement, verb tense and form, pronouns (agreement, case, intensive, shifts, vague pronouns), noun agreement, adjectives and adverbs, fragments, run-ons and conjunctions, parallel structure, modifiers, idioms and commonly confused words, capitalization and punctuation
• Research skills: strategies, primary vs. secondary sources, relevance, credibility and the parts of MLA and APA citations
• A 2-page cram sheet and a night-before checklist
• Two full-length practice tests with score-by-type and score-by-skill tables, 40 bonus drills, and scoring notes and a model response for every practice essay prompt
• Sources page listing the official material the test facts were checked against
HOW IT'S BUILT
• 18 worked examples, 49 tables and 15 diagrams
• Original sentences, drafts and essay sources, printed two columns to a page like a test booklet
• Every answer explained, including the tempting wrong answer and why it's wrong
• Answer letters balanced across A–E
• Test facts checked against the ETS Study Companion, the ETS test page and ETS score and policy pages
HOW YOU GET IT
One PDF, letter size. Print at home or study on a tablet or phone.
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