GACE Paraprofessional (349)
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10 sample questions for the GACE Paraprofessional (349), with the correct answer and an explanation for each. No account needed. Try each one before you open the answer.
Sections covered on the exam: Reading Skills, Writing Skills.
Question 1 · Reading Skills
Tardigrades are tiny animals, less than a millimeter long, that live in moss, soil and ponds. Scientists call them some of the most resilient creatures on Earth. When their home dries out, a tardigrade pulls in its legs, loses most of the water in its body and curls into a dry ball. In this state it can survive freezing cold, boiling heat and even the airless conditions of outer space. When water returns, the animal swells back to its normal shape and goes about its business, sometimes after years of waiting. Few other living things can bounce back from so much damage.
Answer: A. able to recover from hardship
The passage shows tardigrades surviving extreme conditions and returning to normal, and the last sentence says they bounce back from damage, so resilient means able to recover. Very small and hard to see describes the animal's size, a true detail that does not fit the way the word is used.
Question 2 · Reading Skills
A paraprofessional is working with two students on a newsletter article titled 'Why We Need a Crosswalk on Pine Street.' The article describes near-misses involving students, quotes a crossing guard who worries about speeding cars and ends by asking families to sign a petition. One student says the author wrote it 'to tell about Pine Street.'
Answer: A. Ask what the author wants readers to do after they finish the article
The petition request shows the author wants readers to act, which reveals a persuasive purpose, and asking what the author wants readers to do leads the student there. Agreeing that the purpose is to tell about the street accepts a vague answer that misses persuasion.
Question 3 · Writing Skills
Answer: D. Ms. Lane asked, "Who finished the reading log?"
A comma separates the speaker tag from the quotation, the quotation begins with a capital letter, and the question mark goes inside the closing quotation marks because the quoted words are the question.
Question 4 · Writing Skills
A student has been asked to write a personal narrative but tells the paraprofessional, 'I don't know what to write about. Nothing interesting ever happens to me.'
Answer: D. Listing a few memorable moments, big or small, to choose from
The student needs a topic, and brainstorming a list of memorable moments generates ideas to choose from. An outline organizes ideas the student does not have yet, and checking spelling is editing, which comes much later.
Question 5 · Reading Skills
Answer: C. 35
Write the equation 5n + 40 = 215. Subtract 40 from both sides to get 5n = 175, then divide by 5 to get n = 35. Adding 40 instead of subtracting it gives 51, and dividing 215 by 5 without removing the bus fee gives 43.
Question 6 · Reading Skills
In a back room of the city museum, Ms. Okafor spends her days restoring old quilts. Her work is meticulous. Before she makes a single stitch, she photographs each square, records the colors of every thread in a notebook and tests a tiny corner to be sure her cleaning solution will not cause fading. Repairing one small tear can take her a full week. 'If I rush,' she says, 'I could erase a story that took someone a lifetime to sew.'
Answer: D. extremely careful about details
Photographing every square, recording thread colors and testing a corner before cleaning all show extreme care with details. The work is slow, but the passage presents that as a result of care, not boredom.
Question 7 · Reading Skills
A sixth grader is reading a short article that begins, 'Crows can recognize individual human faces and remember them for years.' The rest of the article describes an experiment in which researchers wore masks and found that crows scolded the masked people long after the first encounter. The student asks the paraprofessional whether the article's title, 'Masks on Campus,' is a good one.
Answer: D. It names the masks but not the article's point about crows' memory
A strong title reflects the main idea, which is that crows recognize and remember faces; the masks were only the method of the experiment. Title length and the researchers' names do not make a title effective.
Question 8 · Writing Skills
Answer: B. The teacher asked whether we had finished the quiz.
An indirect question reports what someone asked without quoting it, so it ends with a period. A sentence that directly asks something, such as one beginning with Did, needs a question mark. No comma belongs before whether.
Question 9 · Writing Skills
A student has brainstormed a long list of facts about sea turtles. The student wants to group the facts into paragraphs before starting a draft.
Answer: C. Making an outline with main topics and details
An outline sorts ideas into main topics with supporting details, which is exactly what the student needs to plan paragraphs. Freewriting creates more ideas rather than organizing them, and proofreading and publishing belong to later stages.
Question 10 · Reading Skills
Answer: B. $26.00
Substitute 4 for h: 12 + 3.5 × 4. Multiply first: 3.5 × 4 = 14, then 12 + 14 = $26.00. Adding 12 + 3.5 first and then multiplying by 4 gives $62.00, and $19.50 adds 3.5 twice instead of multiplying by 4.
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