TELPAS Practice

What does the schedule show about this student's plans at 11:30?

Analyze and Evaluate Information and Ideas · TELPAS Grades 10–12 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.

Reporting category 3: make inferences, draw conclusions, and think about why the author wrote a text and how it is built.

Read the schedule. Then answer the questions.

Campus Visit Day

Schedule titled Pecan Creek College Campus Visit Day — Saturday. 9:00 Check-in and breakfast, Student Center lobby. 9:30 Welcome talk, Main Hall auditorium. 10:15 Campus tour, leaves from the Student Center. 11:30 Choose one: Financial aid workshop in Main Hall, Room 104, or Health careers panel in the Science Building. 12:30 Lunch with current students, Dining hall. A note at the bottom says: Parents and guardians are welcome. Register online by Wednesday. Free parking in Lot B.
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Pecan Creek College Campus Visit Day — Saturday

9:00 Check-in and breakfast — Student Center lobby

9:30 Welcome talk — Main Hall auditorium

10:15 Campus tour — leaves from the Student Center

11:30 Choose one: Financial aid workshop — Main Hall, Room 104, or Health careers panel — Science Building

12:30 Lunch with current students — Dining hall

Parents and guardians are welcome. Register online by Wednesday. Free parking in Lot B.

The question

Choose the best answer.

A student wants to become a nurse and is also worried about paying for college. What does the schedule show about this student's plans at 11:30?

  • The student can go to both sessions, first one and then the other.
  • The student must pick one session, because both are at the same time.Correct answer
  • The student should skip the campus tour to have time for both sessions.
  • The student will hear about financial aid during lunch with students.

Why “The student must pick one session, because both are at the same time.” is correct

This asks the student to apply the schedule to a person's needs. A future nurse would want the health careers panel, and someone worried about cost would want the financial aid workshop, but both are listed at 11:30 under "Choose one." The student has to connect each interest to a session and notice the conflict.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • The student can go to both sessions, first one and then the other. — Both sessions are at 11:30, and the schedule says "Choose one."
  • The student should skip the campus tour to have time for both sessions. — The tour comes before 11:30; it is the two sessions that conflict.
  • The student will hear about financial aid during lunch with students. — Financial aid is a separate workshop, not part of lunch.

Practice more of this

More reading practice for Grades 10–12, or see the TELPAS practice test for 10th–12th grade.

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