Secondary School Entrance Exam Guide 2023-2024

• This document is an orientation and study guide for the 2023-2024 school year.
• It's designed to help students transition from primary to secondary school in Escuela Secundaria Técnica Núm. 1.
• It acknowledges the challenges of entrance exams and aims to provide support.

Admission Exam General Information

• The secondary school admission exam assesses skills and knowledge from primary education.
• Key areas covered include reading comprehension, writing skills (grammar and spelling), practical problem-solving, interpreting graphs and statistics, and basic data analysis.
• The exam aims to validate primary-level learning and identify areas for improvement.
• Familiarization with the exam format through practice is crucial.

Exam Content

• The exam covers 6th-grade primary education topics.
• Subjects include Spanish, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, History, Geography, Civic and Ethical Formation, and Healthy Living.
• Questions are multiple-choice with four options, where only one is correct.
• The exam consists of 110 questions in a booklet, answered on a separate sheet.
• Answers require filling in the "cuadrito" corresponding to the chosen letter; multiple selections invalidate the answer.
• Blank pages are provided in the booklet for calculations in Mathematics.
• Calculator use is prohibited.
• The answer sheet must be filled with the student's full name, application classroom, and identification number.

Exam Day Requirements

• On June 10, 2022, students must bring their assigned identification, a black ink pen, a pencil, and an eraser.
• The exam duration is 2 hours.

Spanish Subject Matter

• Mastering grammar and spelling rules is important
• Study literary resources and structures.
• Focus on understanding main characteristics, characters, structure, style, and plot in literary works.
• Reading comprehension focuses on identifying main ideas, using punctuation, and writing short texts in first and third person.

Spanish Content: Block I

• Learn to create study guides using traits found in exams and questionnaires, spotting different question formats.
• Apply literary skills to write biographies and autobiographies.
• Learn the layout of radio scripts.
• Understand what makes a mystery or horror story by looking at its parts, style, characters, and setting.

Spanish Content: Block II

• Know how to read and understand reports.
• Take notes to help write your own texts, noting where the information came from; write scary stories using words that build suspense; write paragraphs using first and third person; use words or numbers to show the steps in a list.

Spanish Content: Block III

• Note what makes historical narratives special and use formal language when writing them; can write an organized text with correct spelling and punctuation; prepares a historical account for the school library; knows the parts of a play and how it's different from stories.

Mathematics Subject Matter

• Focus on strengthening knowledge of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Resolve mathematical problems related to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Learn figures including geometric shapes.
• Interpret data from tables and graphs to solve problems.
• Learn about fractions and decimals on a number line, graphic representation, and the Cartesian coordinate system.

Mathematics Content: Block I

• Practice reading, writing, and comparing numbers that are whole, fractions, and decimals.
• Learn to solve addition problems with numbers of different types, changing how the problems are structured.
• Reaffirm traditional methods; solve multiplication problems that involve fractions off decimals using informal steps.
• Discover how to spot symmetry in shapes and among figures with different tools.
• Select a code to share where items are on a grid, setting up shared codes to pinpoint them; figure out real distances by measuring roughly from one place to another on a map.
• Calculate percentages of amounts with different methods (using the "for every 100, n" rule, a common fraction off decimal, using 10% as a base); read data from tables and circle graphs to solve questions.

Mathematics Content: Block II

• Learn to spot where fractions and decimals are on a number line in different situations.
• For example, if needing to show halves and the unit is divided into sixths, the unit isn't set; build practical rules for quick multiplication by 10, 100, 1000, and so on.
• Identify and tell the difference between prisms and pyramids, arrange them, and find where their altitudes are.
• Resolve percentage problems using different methods: apply percentage, figure out simply, what percentage an amount represents (10%, 20%, 50%, 75%), and apply percentages over 100%; interpret both understandable and hidden data in various formats to answer questions.

Mathematics content: Block III

• Spot a fraction or a decimal between two given fractions or decimals; approach how dense rational numbers can be, different from whole numbers; find multiples and divisors of numbers that are whole.
• Study patterns while listing multiples of two, three of five; graph ordered pairs on the first section of a Cartesian coordinate space.

Natural Sciences Subject Matter

• A solid base of Natural Sciences is crucial.
• Focus on the causes of extinction of living beings, human body components, flora and fauna, food chains, and global warming.

Natural Sciences Content: Block I

• Learn about the roles of different systems in keeping the body running smoothly: the nervous system for coordinating, the immune system for defending , and the respiratory system for swapping gases.
• Learn the digestive system for feeding, the circulatory system for delivering, the excretory system for removing waste, and the locomotive system for moving.
• Function of the egg and sperm cells in passing on features and figuring out sex.
• Understand being sexually responsible which means; choosing abstinence, delaying when someone starts being sexually active, using condoms, and lowering the number of sexual partners.

Natural Sciences Content: Block II

• Discuss what causes living things to die out now compared to over 10,000 years ago.
• Make decisions based on what's good for the enviornment and quality of life.
• Natural parts like physical and living things and how they interact socially, economically, politically, and culturally.

Natural Sciences Content: Block III

• Test how hard, flexible and easily penetrated different supplies are.
• Judge how well tactics work to revalue, refuse, lower, reuse, and recycle paper and plastic , considering what that really means for nature and society.

Geography Subject Matter

• Geographical studies benefit from visual aids.
• Key topics include the Earth, map elements (symbols, coordinates), climate, natural resources, population growth, and distribution.
• Identification of map elements.

Geographic Content: Block I

• Learn about using maps of globes to show of the Earth.
• Spot features on maps like titles, symbols, scale, direction, and where latitude and longitude lines are.
• Learn to find places of interest on urban maps and know why modern geographic information technology is important.

Geographic Content: Block II

• Link the type of weather to the plants and animals in a place.
• The natural supplies help to sustain the wild life and discover actions for sustainable development.

Geographic Content: Block III

• Meet challenges from population growth, makeup, an dispreading around the world, the growth of cities.

History Subject Matter

• Focus on reasoning-based learning, not rote memorization.
• Key topics include early human settlements, forms of government, legacies of the ancient world, and early civilizations.

Historical Content: Block I

• The transition from nomadic lifestyles to early farming communities, including mammoth hunting.

Historical Content: Block II

• Learn to place farming cultures from the East and civilizations around the Mediterranean in time and space.
• Discover their types of governments, their social classes, and the roles of science, technology, and religion; know the gifts from the ancient world; Egypt is known as "The Gift of the Nile"; Alexander the Great was influenced by Greek culture.

Historical Content: Block III

• Understand where and when civilizations in Mesoamerica and the andes happened in the Mesoamerica cultural space.
• Mesoamerican civilizations: Pre-Classic: Olmecs, Classic: Mayan, Teotihuacan and Zapotec, Post-Classic: Toltecs and Mexicas.

Civic and Ethical Formation Subject Matter

• This subject aims to build good relationships.
• Focus on values and understanding emotions, health, personality, stereotypes, affections, and reproductive development.

Civic and Ethical Formation Content: Block I

• What body changes are happening?
• What affection, sensations and emotions and felt?, wanting to see and feel in the future, needing to learn to maintain a healthy life?; thinking about adolescent rights to health information in general, especially concerning sexual and reproductive health.
• Are adolescents prone to sexual violence and STIs like HIV/AIDS
• What does it mean to start being sexually active as teens, and how important are, communication, enjoyment, affection and procreation in relationship.
• Responsibility for our own actions.
• It is important to have information to make decisions.
• What decisions need to be made before finishing elementary school, and how does becoming a parent limit teens chances to grow personally.
• What TV and radio programs do teenagers watch? What do they offer? Are they scientific, cultural, or just for fun?
• How are men and women shown in the media" What impact has this had on oneself and familiar people.
• How discrimination and stereotypes impact development, being involved, and feeling connected between men and women?

Civic and Ethical Formation Content: Block II

• What's changing in the sentiments and emotions?
• New feelings are being felt, and what triggers these feelings?
• How the use of gestures and body language can either cause of prevent emotions.
• How easy is it to show ones's emotions and feelings.
• How to express feelings safely without hurting others; what rules can guide through tough times?
• How do human rights principles guide decisions?
• How crucial it is that the actions match the thoughts and words; wanting to imagine how your life is going to be in a few years.
• What goals do you want?
• What to do to reach those goals?
• When should everyone get the same, and when should those with less get a bigger share.
• Do some people need more help because of their personal situation?
• Does someone need extra support where you live?
• How does it feel when someone is tricked? Why can't someone seek personal gain by abusing trust, and what does corruption mean?.
• How important are honesty and accountability from civil servants.

Civic and Ethical Formation Content: Block III

• What are the biggest social issues right now?
• What is migration?
• What are reasons and effects of the social problems in my town, Mexico, other part of the world?
• What counts as unemployment and informal work?
• What means maltreatment, abuse, child exploitation and domestic violence?
• How to handle those issues, and what similarities and differences can you see among people?
• How should you feel about people from other places, and what keeps people from getting along when they think their culture or value are superior?
• What does it mean it a community denies that the population is diverse?

Comprehensive guide for the 2023-2024 secondary school entrance exam. It supports students transitioning from sixth grade to secondary school. Includes study materials and assesses skills/knowledge from primary education. Covers Spanish, Math, Sciences, History, basic data analysis, and more.