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• The free FTCE General Knowledge practice testThe free mock is 95 questions, weighted to the published counts: 30 English Language Skills, 30 Reading, 35 Mathematics. It returns three separate sco…
• FTCE General Knowledge: 7 Free Practice QuestionsAnswer 7 original Sitonce questions without an account, then check your score and read the explanations. This small study sample helps you spot ideas …
• How an FTCE General Knowledge question is builtEach item is a stem with options, one of which is the key. Every item traces to a named skill in Section 82 of the competencies document, which Rule 6…
• FTCE English Language Skills: Distractor PatternsWrong options in English Language Skills come from six repeatable places: the version that sounds right aloud, the over-correction, agreement with the…
• FTCE Reading Subtest: Distractor PatternsOn Reading, most wrong options are true. They are built as true-but-not-asked, wrong scope, outside knowledge, accurate-about-half-the-passage, word m…
• FTCE Math Subtest: Distractor PatternsMathematics distractors are built from six errors: stopping one step short, inverting an operation, slipping a decimal place, dropping a sign, using t…
• Pacing the three multiple-choice subtestsThree subtests, three clocks. English Language Skills gives 1.33 minutes a question, Reading 1.83 and Mathematics 2.86, on our arithmetic from FLDOE's…
• FTCE: The Time-Per-Question Gap Nobody PublishesEnglish Language Skills allows about eighty seconds a question and Mathematics about a hundred and seventy-two. That is 1.33 minutes against 2.86, a s…
• FTCE Reading: One Passage, Five QuestionsReading items are grouped behind passages, several to a passage. Our bank deals five per passage: 60 passages, 300 items. Read the passage once with r…
• FTCE Math: The On-Screen CalculatorAn on-screen calculator is supplied during the Mathematics subtest, per FLDOE's Test Structure document. You do not bring your own. We have not seen t…