TAKS Requirements*

Grade 3
TAKS: Reading, Math
Reading Assessment = Promotion Requirement
Grade 4
TAKS: Reading, Writing, Math
Grade 5
TAKS: Reading, Math, Science
Reading and Math Assessments = Promotion Requirements(beginning with 2004-05 school year)
Grade 6
TAKS: Reading, Math
Grade 7
TAKS: Reading, Writing, Math
Grade 8
TAKS: Reading, Math, Social Studies
Reading and Math Assessments = Promotion Requirements(beginning with 2007-08 school year)
Grade 9
TAKS: Reading, Math
Grade 10
TAKS: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
Grade 11
TAKS exit-level assessment is graduation requirement English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
Grade 12
TAKS exit-level assessment retest, if necessary

* A TAKS Science test will be added at grade 8 no later than the 2006-07 school year.
Source: TEA Student Assessment Division

TAKS Test Framework

If teachers understand the design of the the third grade reading test, they will have no problem getting 100% of their able students to meet the standard.

• 3 Reading Selections
• 36 Questions
• 6 TEKS
• 4 Objectives
• 16 TAKS Skills

Burn these numbers into your head and that of administrators. The TAKS is a hard test only if students master skills not tested on TAKS.