The GMAS is a Computer-Based Longitudinal Assessment System for College and Career Readiness. The students will face a variety of new technology-enhanced questions as a part of the computer-based tests.
Some of them are Multiple choice-single correct responses, Multiple choice-multiple correct responses, Matching Tables, Drag and Drop, Hot text, Table Fill in, Graphing, Equation/numeric, Extended constructed response, Short answer, and many more.
Today, we will share several sample questions along with practice test links for grade 5 English Language Arts that gives you an idea of questions that your students are likely to see on the test. After each sample question, an explanation follows that includes any important aspects of the task that you may need to consider with respect to the skills, processes, and information your students need to know.
Domain: Grade 5 >> Reading Standards for Literature
Sample Question: The Glass Cupboard
There was a king who had a cupboard that was made entirely of glass. It was a special cupboard. It looked empty, but you could always take out anything you wanted. There was only one thing that had to be remembered. Whenever something was taken out of it, something else had to be put back in, although nobody knew why.
One day some thieves broke into the palace and stole the cupboard. “Now, we can have anything we want,” they said. One of the thieves said, “I want a large bag of gold,” and he opened the glass cupboard and got it. The other two did the same and they, too, got exactly what they wanted. The thieves forgot one thing. Not one of them put anything back inside the cupboard.
This went on and on for weeks and months. At last, the leader of the thieves could bear it no longer. He took a hammer and smashed the glass cupboard into a million pieces, and then all three thieves fell down dead.
When the king returned home, he ordered his servants to search for the cupboard. When the servants found it and the dead thieves, they filled sixty great carts with the gold and took it back to the king. He said, “If those thieves had only put something back into the cupboard, they would be alive to this day.”
He ordered his servants to collect all of the pieces of glass and melt into a globe of the world with all the countries on it, this was to remind himself and others, to give back something in return when someone shows an act of kindness or gives us something.
What is the one thing you have to remember about the cupboard?
- To take out everything that was in the cupboard every time
- To put back something each time you take something out
- Never take out anything unless you really need it
- To break the cupboard each time you take something out
Answer Explanation: The passage does not say “to take out everything that was in the cupboard each time.” But the passage does support the correct answer that you have to remember to put something back in the box if you take something out of it. The passage does not say that you have to need something in order to take something out. Also, the passage does not support the statement “to break the cupboard each time you take something out.”
Standards: ELAGSE5RL1
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Domain: Grade 5 >> Reading Standards for Informational Text
Sample Question: What is personification?
- A figure of speech where human characteristics are given to an animal or object
- A figure of speech where a word is used to describe a sound made by an object
- A figure of speech where a word or phrase means something different from what it says
- A figure of speech that draws a verbal picture by comparing two objects
Answer Explanation: Choice A is correct. Personification is a figure of speech that is used when human qualities are given to a non-human thing. The non-human thing cannot literally do what the human can do, but it is colorful and has interesting language that makes the writing more engaging to read. It adds variety to the writing. To help you remember the definition of personification, look at the first part of the word that you see at the beginning of it. It is person, this should remind a reader that the figure of speech uses actions, thoughts, and feelings of a human being to bring a non-human object to life.
Standards: ELAGSE5RI4
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Domain: Grade 5 >> Writing Standards
Sample Question: There are three different kinds of oranges: the sweet or common orange, the mandarin orange, and the sour or bitter orange. One type of sweet orange is called the blood orange. It has a pulp with a deep red color. This type of orange is grown mostly in the Mediterranean region. Mandarin oranges are grown mostly in Florida. Sour oranges are grown almost everywhere, but Spain grows most of the sour oranges used for trade. These sour oranges are mainly used to make marmalade, but they can be put to many other interesting uses- from making medicine to creating perfumes.
What is the topic sentence of this paragraph?
- One type of sweet orange is called the blood orange. It has a pulp with a deep red color.
- Sour oranges are grown almost everywhere, but Spain grows most of the sour oranges used for trade.
- There are three different kinds of oranges: the sweet or common orange, the mandarin orange, and the sour or bitter orange.
- These sour oranges are mainly used to make marmalade; but they can be put to many other interesting uses- from making medicine to creating perfumes.
Answer Explanation: Choice C is correct. This is a solid introduction statement that says what the paragraph will be about. The details that follow support information about the three kinds of oranges.
Standards: W.5.1
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Domain: Grade 5 >> Language Standards
Sample Question: Select the correct verb to complete the below sentence.
He _________ the chickens out of the yard and ran off with them!
- snatch
- snatched
- snatching
- snatcher
Answer Explanation: Choice B is correct. The verb tense has to agree with the subject, the verb “snatched” is correct. There is a compound verb in this sentence. The other verb, “ran,” is in past tense, so both verbs must be in past tense. Adding “ed” to the end of the present tense “snatch” makes it past tense. Snatcher is not a verb. The “er” makes it a noun.
Standards: L.5.1
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