Test de práctica ParaPro
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Este test de práctica gratis del ParaPro tiene 15 preguntas escritas por el equipo de StudyPDF, cinco de lectura, cinco de escritura y cinco de matemáticas. El ParaPro Assessment real tiene 90 preguntas, 30 por materia, y te da 150 minutos. Más o menos un tercio de sus preguntas te sitúan en un aula, ayudando a un alumno a leer una palabra sonido a sonido o a corregir una frase, así que un tercio de estas también. Responde las 15, después mira tu puntuación y lee la explicación de cada pregunta.
Read the passage: Many schools now schedule recess before lunch instead of after it. Teachers at schools that made the switch report that students throw away less food, because they are no longer rushing to get outside. Some also describe calmer classrooms in the afternoon. The change costs nothing, although the lunch staff's schedule has to be adjusted. Which statement best expresses the main idea?
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1. Read the passage: Many schools now schedule recess before lunch instead of after it. Teachers at schools that made the switch report that students throw away less food, because they are no longer rushing to get outside. Some also describe calmer classrooms in the afternoon. The change costs nothing, although the lunch staff's schedule has to be adjusted. Which statement best expresses the main idea?
- A. Moving recess before lunch appears to bring several benefits at little cost.
- B. Students waste a large amount of food at lunch.
- C. Changing the lunch staff's schedule is difficult for schools.
- D. Classrooms are calmer in the afternoon than in the morning.
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: A. Moving recess before lunch appears to bring several benefits at little cost.
The main idea has to cover the whole passage, and the passage is about one change and its results: less wasted food, calmer afternoons and no cost. The other three each pick up a single detail, and the third and fourth go further than the passage, which never says the schedule change is difficult or compares afternoons with mornings.
2. Which statement is an opinion rather than a fact?
- A. The school library has about 4,000 books.
- B. The library opens at 7:30 every morning.
- C. The library is the most welcoming room in the building.
- D. The library added 300 new books this year.
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: C. The library is the most welcoming room in the building.
A fact can be checked: you can count the books, look at the opening time and read the purchase records. Most welcoming is a judgment, and two people could honestly disagree about it. Words that rank or praise, such as best, worst, most or should, are the quickest signal that a statement is an opinion.
3. A chart shows the number of books each class read in March: Room 4 read 52, Room 5 read 61, Room 6 read 47 and Room 7 read 58. Which statement is supported by the chart?
- A. Room 7 read the most books.
- B. Every room read more than 50 books.
- C. Room 4 read fewer books than Room 6.
- D. Room 5 read 14 more books than Room 6.
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: D. Room 5 read 14 more books than Room 6.
Room 5 read 61 and Room 6 read 47, and 61 minus 47 is 14. The other statements fail on a single number: Room 5 read the most, not Room 7; Room 6 read only 47; and Room 4 read 52, which is more than Room 6. On data questions, check every number a statement mentions before choosing it.
4. A second grader gets stuck on the word unhappiness while reading aloud. Which of these would help the student break the word into parts?
Marca todas las que correspondan.
- A. Cover the prefix un- and the suffix -ness so the student can find the root word happy.
- B. Have the student clap the syllables: un, hap, pi, ness.
- C. Say the word for the student right away and move on so the reading keeps its pace.
- D. Point out that the y in happy changes to i when -ness is added.
- E. Ask the student to skip the word and guess it later from the picture.
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: A. Cover the prefix un- and the suffix -ness so the student can find the root word happy., B. Have the student clap the syllables: un, hap, pi, ness., D. Point out that the y in happy changes to i when -ness is added.
Breaking a word into its prefix, root and suffix, clapping syllables and explaining the spelling change from y to i all give the student a way to read the word, and the next long word too. Saying the word straight away solves this one word and teaches nothing, and guessing from a picture skips decoding altogether. Classroom questions on the ParaPro favor the answer that helps the student work it out.
5. Complete the sentence.
In the word cake, the letter a makes a _____ vowel sound, and in the word cat, the letter a makes a _____ vowel sound.
Opciones para el hueco 1: long, short, silent
Opciones para el hueco 2: long, short, silent
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: long, short
A long vowel says its own name, as the a in cake does, and the silent e at the end of the word is what makes it long. A short vowel makes its other common sound, as in cat, hat or map. Comparing a pair like cap and cape is a quick way to show a young reader what the final e does.
6. Which sentence is written correctly?
- A. Their going to the library after lunch.
- B. They're going to the library after lunch.
- C. There going to the library after lunch.
- D. Theyre going to the library after lunch.
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: B. They're going to the library after lunch.
They're is short for they are, and they are going makes sense here. Their shows ownership, as in their books, and there points to a place, as in over there. The last option drops the apostrophe a contraction needs. To check, read the sentence again with they are in place of the word.
7. Which of these is a sentence fragment?
- A. The bus arrived late.
- B. We waited in the office.
- C. Because the bus arrived late.
- D. The bus arrived late, so we waited.
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: C. Because the bus arrived late.
Because turns the clause into a dependent clause, which cannot stand on its own even though it has a subject and a verb. It needs a main clause, for example: Because the bus arrived late, we missed the first period. The last option is complete, since a comma followed by so correctly joins two full sentences.
8. In the sentence The quiet student quickly finished her worksheet, which words are labeled with the correct part of speech?
Marca todas las que correspondan.
- A. quiet: adjective
- B. quickly: adverb
- C. finished: noun
- D. student: noun
- E. worksheet: verb
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: A. quiet: adjective, B. quickly: adverb, D. student: noun
Quiet describes the student, so it is an adjective. Quickly describes how she finished, so it is an adverb, and many adverbs end in -ly. Student is a noun, the person doing the action. Finished is the verb, the action itself, and worksheet is a noun, the thing that was finished.
9. Complete the sentences.
A student writes nonstop for five minutes about a topic without worrying about spelling or order. This prewriting step is called _____. Later the student moves two paragraphs and rewrites the thesis statement so the essay makes a clearer point. That step is called _____.
Opciones para el hueco 1: freewriting, editing, publishing
Opciones para el hueco 2: editing, revising, proofreading
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: freewriting, revising
Freewriting means writing continuously to get ideas out, with no stopping to fix anything. Moving paragraphs and sharpening the thesis changes the content and the organization, and that is revising. Editing and proofreading come after, and they fix the surface: grammar, spelling and punctuation. Keeping revising and editing apart is one of the most tested ideas in the writing section.
10. A student writes: Me and him went to the park after school. Which response best helps the student fix the sentence?
- A. Tell the student to change it to Him and I went to the park.
- B. Tell the student it sounds fine in conversation, so it can stay.
- C. Suggest He and I went to the park, and show how to check by saying each part alone: He went, I went.
- D. Cross out the sentence and write the correct version above it.
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: C. Suggest He and I went to the park, and show how to check by saying each part alone: He went, I went.
The subject of a sentence needs subject pronouns, so the correct version is He and I. Testing each pronoun on its own, I went instead of me went, gives the student a check they can use again without help, which is why it beats simply correcting the work. Him and I fixes only half the error, and the informal version is not standard written English.
11. Which fraction is between 1/3 and 1/2?
- A. 1/4
- B. 2/5
- C. 3/5
- D. 1/6
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: B. 2/5
As decimals, 1/3 is about 0.33 and 1/2 is 0.5, and 2/5 is 0.4, which falls between them. 3/5 is 0.6, which is more than a half, and 1/4 and 1/6 are both smaller than a third. Changing fractions to decimals, or to a common denominator, is the reliable way to compare them.
12. In a class of 30 students, 40 percent bring lunch from home. How many students bring lunch from home?
- A. 6
- B. 8
- C. 10
- D. 12
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: D. 12
40 percent is 0.4, and 0.4 times 30 is 12. Another way is to find 10 percent first, which is 3, and multiply by 4. If you get a number that looks too small or too large, compare it with half the class, 15, since 40 percent should come out a little under that.
13. Complete the equation.
6 + 2 × 3² = _____
Opciones para el hueco 1: 24, 42, 72, 144
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: 24
Order of operations: exponents first, then multiplication, then addition. 3 squared is 9, 2 times 9 is 18, and 6 plus 18 is 24. Adding first gives (6 + 2) × 9 = 72, and treating 2 × 3 as the number being squared gives 6 + 36 = 42. Both are common traps.
14. A student says 1/8 is bigger than 1/4 because 8 is bigger than 4. Which responses would help the student understand?
Marca todas las que correspondan.
- A. Fold two paper strips of the same length into fourths and eighths and compare one piece from each.
- B. Explain that a bigger denominator means the whole is cut into more pieces, so each piece is smaller.
- C. Tell the student the bigger number on the bottom always means the bigger fraction.
- D. Show that 1/8 is 0.125 and 1/4 is 0.25 if the student already works with decimals.
- E. Tell the student to memorize the answer for the test.
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: A. Fold two paper strips of the same length into fourths and eighths and compare one piece from each., B. Explain that a bigger denominator means the whole is cut into more pieces, so each piece is smaller., D. Show that 1/8 is 0.125 and 1/4 is 0.25 if the student already works with decimals.
A hands-on comparison, the idea that more pieces means smaller pieces, and a decimal comparison all help the student see why 1/4 is bigger, which is the part that carries over to the next problem. The third choice states the student's mistake as a rule, and memorizing one answer does nothing for the next pair of fractions. Paper strips are often the clearest for young students, because they show the size directly.
15. A paraprofessional records spelling scores for five students: 6, 9, 10, 6 and 9. What is the mean score?
- A. 8
- B. 6
- C. 9
- D. 10
Ver respuesta y explicación
Respuesta: A. 8
The mean is the total divided by the number of scores: 6 + 9 + 10 + 6 + 9 is 40, and 40 divided by 5 is 8. The other answers come from mixing up the measures. The median, the middle score once they are put in order, is 9, and 6 and 9 are both modes because each appears twice.
Cómo es el examen ParaPro
El ParaPro Assessment es el examen que ETS ofrece a quienes quieren trabajar en Estados Unidos como paraprofessional, también llamado teacher's aide o paraeducator (un auxiliar que apoya al docente en el aula), y a los auxiliares que ya lo hacen. Según ETS, tiene 90 preguntas de respuesta seleccionada: 30 de lectura, 30 de matemáticas y 30 de escritura. Tienes 150 minutos, el examen se hace en ordenador y puedes presentarte en un centro de exámenes o en casa con supervisión remota. ETS también indica que algunas preguntas pueden no contar para tu puntuación.
En cada materia, unos dos tercios de las preguntas evalúan la destreza en sí: la idea principal de un texto, un error gramatical, un porcentaje. El otro tercio te pide usar esa destreza para ayudar a un alumno, por ejemplo elegir cómo ayudar a un niño a dividir una palabra larga en partes o cómo explicar por qué una fracción es mayor que otra.
No hay una nota de aprobado nacional. ETS indica que las puntuaciones mínimas las fija el estado o el distrito escolar, y cambian de un sitio a otro. Algunos estados además han pasado del ParaPro a ParaPathways, una evaluación más reciente de ETS que se hace en dos exámenes, uno de lectura y escritura y otro de matemáticas, y unos pocos aceptan el ParaPro solo hasta una fecha concreta. Antes de inscribirte, revisa la página de requisitos por estado en la web del ParaPro de ETS y pregunta al distrito al que te presentas qué examen y qué puntuación pide.
Cómo afrontar las preguntas de destreza y las de aula
Lectura. Lee la pregunta antes que el texto y responde solo con lo que dice el texto. En las preguntas de idea principal, elige la respuesta que abarca todo el texto y no un solo detalle. En las de hecho u opinión, pregúntate si la afirmación se podría comprobar; palabras como mejor, más acogedor o debería suelen indicar una opinión. Cuenta también con alguna tabla o gráfico.
Escritura. Las preguntas de destreza van de detectar errores: concordancia entre sujeto y verbo, their, there y they're, frases incompletas y frases mal unidas, comas, categorías gramaticales y ortografía. Las preguntas de aula tratan del proceso de escritura, desde la preparación y el borrador hasta la revisión y la corrección. Revisar cambia lo que dice el texto y cómo está organizado; corregir arregla la gramática, la ortografía y la puntuación.
Matemáticas. Casi todo es aritmética que ya conoces: fracciones, decimales, porcentajes, orden de las operaciones, ecuaciones sencillas, unidades, tiempo, área y perímetro, y leer un gráfico o calcular la media, la mediana y la moda. Escribe el planteamiento antes de calcular y comprueba que el resultado tiene un tamaño razonable.
Preguntas de aula. Elige la respuesta que ayuda al alumno a resolverlo por sí mismo en lugar de darle la solución, que parte de lo que el alumno ya sabe y que mantiene la paciencia y el respeto. Una respuesta que solo le dice al alumno que se ha equivocado casi nunca es la mejor.
Una nota honesta: el equipo de StudyPDF escribió cada pregunta de esta página a partir de los temas de contenido que publica ETS. Ninguna es una pregunta real del ParaPro, ninguna sale del banco de una empresa de preparación, y StudyPDF no está afiliada a ETS.
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