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• Model essays
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• The latest information on teacher testing requirements

Each year nearly 700,000 prospective teachers nationwide take the Professional Assessment for Beginning Teachers, or Praxis battery, produced by ETS.

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• Valuable insights into how the Praxis works and what it really tests
• Expert test-taking strategies from an ETS insider
• Comprehensive reviews of reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, and math skills
• Pretest and posttests in each chapter
• Model essays
• Explained answers for all problems
• Practice exams closely simulating the real Praxis series

McGraw-Hill's PRAXIS I and II

Part I: What You Need to Know About the Revised Praxis Exams

Overview

Test-Taking Strategies

Dealing with Test Jitters

Part II: Reading Test

Part III: PPST Writing Tests

Part IV: PPST Mathematics Test

Part V: Praxis II Content Tests

Part VI: 9 Practice Exams

Answer