Guidance for each subject

Use the reading guide to prepare candidates and plan a test preparation course to help learners do the following:

1. Draw on their background knowledge related to the CAEC informational topics

2. Read and interpret a variety of digital texts

3. Apply general reading comprehension, close reading and possibly some critical reading comprehension skills, strategies and knowledge

4. Apply their knowledge of grammar and punctuation to correct errors and interpret usage.

Use the writing guide to plan a test preparation course to help learners do the following:

1. Read the scenario and task that appears in the writing test, including the snippets of evidence that accompany the scenario

2. Compose a letter online that expresses agreement or disagreement with an issue

3. Support claims with the evidence provided and/or with personal experience

4. Address each of the CAEC writing outcomes that are used to evaluate the letter.

This guide will help you make sure candidates have covered CAEC math topics, skills and strategies. Before attempting the CAEC, candidates need to have confident abilities with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percentages. The two CAEC math tests (one that permits the use of a calculator and one that doesn't) cover the following topics:

1. Number sense to solve applied/real world problems

2. Patterns and relations (linear equations, order of operations, formula manipulation)

3. Geometry and measurement

4. Data management.

Use the writing guide to plan a test preparation course to help learners identify characteristics of science and the scientific inquiry process: 

1. Observations, questions and hypothesis

2. Methods and experimental design

3. Data collection and analysis

4. Conclusions and data communication

5. Critical thinking about scientific impacts.

Use the social studies guide to plan a test preparation course to help learners gain knowledge, skills and strategies in three key areas:

1. Document analysis and interpreting and evaluating a range of primary and secondary sources

2. Foundational knowledge of Canadian history, geography, citizenship, and economics

3. Knowledge of key terms and concepts in economics.