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This semester's Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test date is:
This semester's Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test date is:
April 8th and 9th, 2025
for grade 10 students taking English in second semester
In 2025, the OSSLT will be administered to students in-person using EQAO’s digitalized e-assessment system. Students who pass the test will satisfy the literacy requirement for graduation.
What is assessed by the OSSLT?
In the reading component of the test, students use strategies to interact with a variety of reading selections and demonstrate their understanding by responding to multiple-select questions and one open-response question. These reading selections focus on three reading skills:
1. understanding explicitly stated information and ideas
2. understanding implicitly stated information and ideas (making inferences)
3. making connections between information and ideas in a reading selection and personal
knowledge and experience (interpreting reading selections by integrating information and
ideas in a reading selection and personal knowledge and experience)
In the writing component, students respond to multiple-select questions and demonstrate their ability to communicate ideas and information clearly and coherently through an opinion essay. The combination of these written and multiple-select questions focuses on three writing skills:
1. developing a main idea with sufficient supporting details
2. organizing information and ideas in a coherent manner
3. using conventions (spelling, grammar, punctuation) in a manner that does not distract from
clear communication
Since a large-scale assessment does not allow for a complete revision and refinement process, written work on the OSSLT is scored as first-draft (unpolished) writing.
Please click on FRAMEWORK FOR THE OSSLT TEST for more information.
Navigating the St. Robert OSSLT Prep Website
Click on the Tips and Tricks page to review how to be successful on the OSSLT. Please take some time to read the "Tips for Success on the OSSLT" document, which has information regarding the types of questions and activities students will encounter on the test.
Then navigate to the Practice Reading Tasks page, which has previous test resources on Real-Life Narrative, Informational Texts, News Reports, and Dialogue that students may find helpful .
Finally, click on the Practice Writing Tasks page, where students will find resources on grammar practice, short writing tasks, and longer writing tasks (like the Opinion Essay).
Students will complete this practice test in class with their teacher. Please click on the sample OSSLT Prep Schedule for more information.
This site has been designed by the Ministry of Education to prepare students for success on the OSSLT. The resources are based on previous paper tests, which will still be helpful, however, this year it will be in an online format.
This site has been designed by the Ministry of Education to prepare students for success on the OSSLT. The resources are based on previous paper tests, which will still be helpful, however, this year it will be in an online format.
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