Pass the LANTITE

Starting an initial teacher education course in Australia and facing the LANTITE? This guide explains what the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students is, how it is run and what 'the standard' means. It then rebuilds, chapter by chapter, the reading methods, the writing rules and the numeracy methods the test draws on, with worked examples set in schools and the traps that cost candidates marks, and lets you practise until the methods come without hesitation.

The real test has two components, literacy and numeracy, with 65 questions and 120 minutes each. In numeracy, 52 questions come with the on-screen calculator and 13 without. The four mock tests in this book have 65 questions each, two for literacy and two for numeracy, and the numeracy mocks keep the same split between calculator and calculator-free questions.

What is inside:

• 13 short chapters you can read on a phone: what the LANTITE is; registering, test day and results; how the literacy test works; reading methods; grammar; punctuation; spelling and word usage; organising a text; how the numeracy test works and the on-screen calculator; number and algebra; measurement and geometry; statistics and probability; the calculator-free section and your final fortnight
• 3 appendices: spelling and usage lists, a numeracy reference sheet, and a study plan with a marking guide for the mock tests
• 80 original practice questions in four lots of 20, every one with the correct answer and a short explanation
• 4 full mock tests of 65 questions: two literacy and two numeracy, each question with the correct answer and an explanation

Facts about the test are current at the time of writing. Where a rule or fee can change, the book tells you to check ACER's website and your university.

All questions are original. This is an independent study guide: it is not produced, checked or endorsed by ACER or the Australian Government Department of Education, and it does not contain real test questions. Use it alongside ACER's free practice material, not instead of it. It does not predict a result.

Part of the Pass the Test series.

Method of creation: this book was written with the help of artificial intelligence tools, under the author's direction; every explanation was written from its source text and reviewed and every practice question and mock test was written for this book.