Language Arts 9 Final Exam Preparation

The final exam was designed to be completed in 1.5 hours. An additional 1.5 hours is available, if necessary. The exam is based on content you learned in Language Arts 9 this year.  

Prior to the exam review
  1. Writing Conventions Workshops and your iSkills Start with the Sentence: Create Correct, Concise, Connected Sentences textbook for parts of speech, sentence types, lengths, and variety, punctuation, parallelism, coordination, subordination, apposition, and spelling
  2.  Unit 1 Short Stories I for elements of fiction
  3.  Unit 2 Essays for examples of sentence and essay construction (thesis statements, body paragraphs, transitions, and conclusions), with attention to CUE
  4.  Unit 3 Poetry for kinds of poetry studied, examples of poetic techniques, and figurative language
  5.  Unit 4 Research for non-fiction writing samples and concepts such as jargon, sources, and how to skim and scan for information, and how to use infographics
  6. Unit 5 Short Stories for graphic story elements and humour techniques
  7. Unit 6 Novel Study for story elements as well as elements particular to novels: subplots, features of novels
  8. Unit 7 Film Study for specific photography, and film terms and character transformation and theme integration

This exam will make up 20% of your final grade for the course. This exam is to be completed without the use of a dictionary, thesaurus, or any reference materials. However, you should take your iLit Language Arts 9 Anthology with you to use.

An approved supervisor who is not a family member must supervise the exam. This exam cannot be done at home by yourself. Contact your exam supervisor to arrange to write this exam after you have completed the required course work.

Note: If you receive less than 40% on your final exam, we recommend that you write an appeal exam because you will be assigned that score for the course. If your final exam score is less than 40%, your assignment course work will not be applied to your final course score. That is, a final exam score of less than 40% counts for 100% of your mark.


Provincial Achievement Tests (PATs), Part A and Part B, are written in June at your school.
Please note that the provincial achievement test includes writing a business letter. 
Review Lesson 7-5 to practice this format. 

Complete the Practice Final Exam in the Quizzes section of your course. Before you write this exam, read the entire exam quickly, so you know what you are required to do and can distribute your time accordingly.

Enter the password "practice" to begin.


If you need more practice with multiple–choice items, please review the end of Unit 3 Midterm Exam Preparation pages.
 

  Please contact your teacher if you have questions. Book a time to write your final exam with your supervisor.