You opened your results, saw you didn’t pass, and before you’d even finished reading the screen, a voice in your head handed you the plan: study more. Study harder. Study longer. Buy the bigger book. I want to stop you right there — because if you keep failing the ILTS, more studying is only the…
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How the New Elementary Education Exam Is Scored (Passing Each Subtest Isn’t Enough)
If you’re prepping for the redesigned Elementary Education exam, there’s one scoring detail that catches almost everyone off guard: hitting the minimum on all six subtests does not automatically mean you passed the exam. The scoring model works differently than that — and if you don’t know how, you can do everything “right” and still…
ILTS “First Step” Questions: What to Do When All Four Answers Look Right
If you keep hitting ILTS questions that ask “what should the teacher do first?” or “what’s the next step?” — and you walk out of the test unsure even on the ones you should have known — this is for you. These first-step and next-step questions are one of the most common places smart, experienced…
How to Answer NOT, EXCEPT, and LEAST Questions on the ILTS
You’re moving through the exam at a good pace. You read a question, spot a statement you know is true, select it, and move on. That’s the exact moment the test got you. The question wasn’t asking for the true statement — it was asking for the opposite, and your eyes slid past the one…
Why You Fail ILTS Questions You Actually Know
You knew that question. That’s the part that doesn’t make sense. You read it, you felt sure, you clicked, you moved on. No hesitation, no alarm bell. And then the score came back and you failed — and you couldn’t tell anyone which questions you got wrong, because the ILTS score report doesn’t show you…
How to Spot a Scenario-Based ILTS Question Before You Even Read the Answers
You read the question. You knew the material. You still picked wrong. If that’s happened to you on the ILTS, there’s a good chance it wasn’t a content problem. It was a scenario question — and scenario questions don’t play by the same rules as everything else on the test. What a scenario question actually…
Why You Keep Getting ILTS Scenario Questions Wrong (Even When You Know the Material)
You knew the content. You picked the answers that made complete sense — and walked out of that test center feeling okay about it. Then the score came back. Did not pass. And you have no idea where it went sideways, because the ILTS never tells you which questions you missed. If that’s where you…
Stuck in the 230s on the ILTS? The Real Reason Isn’t What You Think
You scored a 233. Seven points short. And the first thing someone told you was to study more. I want you to ignore that advice for a second. You don’t get a 233 because you don’t know the material. People who don’t know the material don’t land in the 230s. They land much lower. A…
The ILTS 290 Mistake That Has Nothing to Do With What You Know
ILTS 290 friends, this one is for you. The most common mistake I see on special education scenario questions is not a content problem. You know special education. You live it. The mistake is a sequencing problem, and it is costing capable people points they should be keeping. Here is the pattern: a scenario gives…
The ILTS 305 Just Changed. Here Are the 3 Things You Need to Know Before Your Next Attempt
Let’s talk about the big 3(0)5. If you have been prepping for the ILTS 305, the exam just changed, and there are three things you need to know before you register for your next attempt. I broke the whole thing down in my latest YouTube video, but here is the short version so you are…