FTCE Reading Online Center
This FTCE Reading Online Center brings together practice, lessons, worksheets, flashcards and review tools. Choose the resource that matches the skill you want to work on next.
FTCE Reading Practice Center
Take a full 55-minute form, read the explanation under every question you miss, then use the flashcards to repair the terms and ideas that slowed you down.
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FTCE Reading at a glance
The Reading subtest is one of four parts of the General Knowledge Test. It does not check what you know about history or science. It checks whether you can read an unfamiliar passage carefully and answer using only what that passage actually says.
| Subtest code | 827 (Reading) |
|---|---|
| Part of | The FTCE General Knowledge Test, code 082, along with Essay (825), English Language Skills (826), and Mathematics (828). All four must be passed. |
| Number of questions | Approximately 30 multiple-choice questions |
| Answer options | Four per question (A, B, C, or D) |
| Time limit | 55 minutes |
| Format | Computer-based. Most questions follow a reading passage; a small number are standalone sentence-completion items. |
| Passing score | A scaled score of at least 200. This threshold took effect January 1, 2025. |
| Retakes | Subtests are retaken individually after a 31-day wait. |
Florida does not publish how many questions come from each competency. Any percentage breakdown you see on a prep site is someone’s estimate, not an official figure, so this Online Center does not repeat one.
The three competencies, in plain language
Fourteen skill statements, grouped into what the test keeps asking you to do with a passage.
Competency 1: Key ideas and details
What does the text actually say, and what follows from it?
- Find textual evidence that supports a conclusion
- Identify explicit meaning and detail
- Separate a defensible inference from an unsupported leap
- Trace how a central idea develops across a text
- Summarize without distorting the passage
- Analyze how people, events, and ideas relate
Competency 2: Text structure and meaning
How is it built, and why those words?
- Work out word and phrase meaning in context, including figurative language
- Explain how a specific word choice shapes meaning or tone
- Analyze how structure and text features carry meaning
- Analyze how purpose and perspective shape the content
Competency 3: Integration of information and ideas
Weighing claims and combining sources.
- Evaluate content presented in different formats
- Judge a claim for relevance, sufficiency, and sound reasoning
- Synthesize several texts into one coherent explanation
- Compare how different authors approach the same topic
A study routine that fits 55 minutes of testing
About 110 seconds a question, which is enough to read carefully once but not enough to argue with yourself twice. Four passes build the speed.
Complete reading skill map
Forty-two lessons, grouped the way the skills cluster. Each opens in a new tab.
Key ideas, details, and textual evidence
Inference, conclusions, and how ideas develop
Word meaning, word choice, and tone
Text structure, features, and organization
Purpose, perspective, and point of view
Evaluating claims, evidence, and reasoning
Integrating information across texts and formats
Before test day
Scope is what catches most candidates. A choice can be true about the world, and true about the topic, and still go further than the passage does. When two options look right, pick the one that stays inside the text.
The other three GK subtests are scored and retaken separately, so study them separately.
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What can I study in this FTCE Reading Online Center?
This FTCE Reading Online Center includes practice, lessons, worksheets, flashcards and review tools. Topics on the page include Competency 1: Key ideas and details, Competency 2: Text structure and meaning, Competency 3: Integration of information and ideas.
How should I use the FTCE Reading resources?
Choose a topic or practice activity from this Online Center. Review the linked explanation, try the practice, and use the result to decide what to study next. Check each resource’s directions for its format and access requirements.
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