{"id":51,"date":"2016-10-14T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ged.org.za\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:26:40","slug":"reasoning-through-language-arts-rla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/the-ged-test\/reasoning-through-language-arts-rla\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA) | GED English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In alignment with career and college readiness standards, the GED\u00ae RLA test focuses on three essential groupings of skills:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ability to read closely<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ability to write clearly<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ability to edit and understand the use of standard written English in context<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The test includes texts from both academic and workplace contexts. These texts reflect a range of complexity levels, in terms of ideas, structure and style. The writing tasks, (called Extended Response (ER) items), require test-takers to analyse given source texts and use evidence drawn from the texts to support their written analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">75% of the texts in the exam are from informational texts (including non-fiction drawn from the\u00a0science and the social studies, as well as a range of texts from workplace contexts) and 25% are literature texts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Breakdown of the Reasoning Through Language Arts test by time and content:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Test Topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Reading for Meaning<br>Identifying and Creating Arguments<br>Grammar and Language<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Time (to take test):150 minutes<br>Includes 3 minutes of instructions and final review<br>Includes 10 minute break between parts 2 and 3<br>Includes 45 minutes for the written essay&nbsp;Format:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">3 sections<br>1 written essay (extended response)<br>Multiple choice and other question types (drag and drop, select an area, and drop down)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In alignment with career and college readiness standards, the GED\u00ae RLA test focuses on three essential groupings of skills: The ability to read closely The ability to write clearly The ability to edit and understand the use of standard written <a href=\"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/the-ged-test\/reasoning-through-language-arts-rla\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}