Lexile Reading Score Analysis

[Conrad_Jalowski]

Hello.

Excuse me, has anyone ever assessed their English language comprehension skills through the form of reading? The Lexile assessment score analyzes your reading level and the difficulty of the text material based on semantics, syntax, and sentence structure [synathroesmus].

Please, if you have utilized the Lexile score for the assessment of your reading abilities post the books you have read, their correlating Lexile scores and your overall Lexile level.

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The lowest Lexile reading score is 200 L with the highest being 1700 L. My general Lexile reading score based on the average difficulty of my reading material in the past 4 years equates to the range 1410-1700.

Twelfth Grade reading material constitutes the range of 1200-1300 L. College Freshman-Sophomore Lexile scores are within the range of 1300-1400 L. College Junior-Senior Lexile scores are within the range of 1320-1500 L. Graduate School (post-Bachelor's Degree) Lexile scores are within the range of 1480-1700.

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[Lord Drazsyr]

wow, you are a scholar aren't you? these are forums. we're formal, but not that formal.

[Heraclius]

I believe I read at a 1300-1500 level, based on what I read. But I haven't taken the test yet so I cant' say for sure.

[Lord Drazsyr]

does reading 7 600 page books in a week count as good?

[Conrad_Jalowski]

Lord Drazsyr, that is a very good quantity of books to read and worthy, however, the Lexile score is based solely on text difficulty through semantics, syntax and the sentence structure such as the length of the sentence and required depth of vocabulary in order to comprehend the particular passage.

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For example, I was surprised that the book I read being Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that is approximately 1,251 pages which I read when I was 15/16 years old (11th grade) in which that book according to Lexile assessment was a College Freshman-Sophomore Lexile level. I had expected a higher Lexile level since the book is lengthy but the length of a book is not as great a criteria as book/text difficulty based on the above factors for the Lexile assessments.

[Lord Drazsyr]

oh, well i read a ton of books. the 7 i mentioned were the harry potter ones.

[jolijoli]

I have not taken this test, but then again I am not a fan of standardized assessments. I feel they never give a true analysis of one's intelligence.

As for text difficulty, syntax, and whatnot I read Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I feel like if I could get through that book and understand it, I am on a pretty good path.