For instructors
Free OSSLT Practice for Your Class
200 OSSLT practice questions with explanations, set as class practice in a minute. You see every student's progress and what the class keeps missing.
Create a free OSSLT classOr see the OSSLT practice test first.
How a class works
Step 1
Make the class
Sign in, pick OSSLT and name the class. It takes under a minute.
Step 2
Post one link
Put the class link in your LMS, a slide or a group chat. Students join with just the name you know them by.
Step 3
See what to reteach
Open the class page for scores, who practiced, and the topics and questions the class misses most.
What your students practice
The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) is EQAO's reading and writing test for students working toward the Ontario Secondary School Diploma, normally written for the first time in Grade 10. It is taken online in two sessions, Session A of about 65 minutes and Session B of about 75. It has 37 scored questions: 35 selected-response (23 reading questions on an information paragraph, a news report, a dialogue and a real-life narrative, and 12 writing questions) and two written answers, a short reading response and an opinion essay. Results are a scale score from 200 to 400, and 300 is needed for a successful outcome. Students who have been unsuccessful can rewrite it, and after two opportunities with at least one unsuccessful they can take the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (OSSLC) instead.
Tigertest's practice follows the EQAO Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test Framework and the EQAO OSSLT assessment page. Students train in short sets where missed questions come back until they are mastered, then take full practice tests.
- Information and news
- Stories and dialogues
- Main idea and organization
- Spelling, grammar and punctuation
Questions teachers ask
Is the OSSLT class free?
Yes. Classes are free for teachers. A student in your class also gets that test's full stats and every step of it at no charge.
Do my students need accounts?
No. A student opens your class link, types the name you know them by and starts practicing. An account is optional and keeps their progress across devices.
What do I see as the teacher?
Who practiced and when, each student's practice test scores, the OSSLT topics the class is weakest on, and every question the class answered with how many missed it and which wrong answer they picked.
Can I use my own questions too?
Yes. Any account can turn its own material into a Tigertest quiz and limit it to one class, so only your students can play it.