Good Test taking Strategies

Test Taking Strategies

2.) Prep the morning of

• Start your morning the way you always do with your routine

• Double check you have everything you need for the test

• Eat a good breakfast!

• Make a plans to do something fun/relaxing when you get home from school

• Think positive thoughts on the way to school

Multiple Choice

What is a good first step when you get the reading test in your hand?

• Start reading directly

• Scan it

• Take a deep breath and count to 10

• Read it from the back to the front

​Read questions first

If you read the question before reading a text, you know what to look for as you read.

Multiple Choice

How should you read the questions?

• Skim through the questions then read the text

• Read it over and over until you understand

• Read the text before the questions

• Read the questions before the text

Cross out or eliminate any wrong answers

If multiple options could be correct, choose the better option

Multiple Choice

What are "context clues" used to understand?

• Ways to learn new words

• Ways to understand equations

• Ways to figure out hidden meanings

• A great way of learning grammar

If there is a word that you do not understand

Swap in a word that you do know, and see if you can find a meaning with the given context.​

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Multiple Choice

How do you easily understand the main idea of the text?

• Read the first part of every paragraph

• Check the beginning and the end of the text for ideas that seem to repeat

• Read the first sentence three times

• Just read the text normally

How do I read to understand a text?

If you're confused, reread and summarize each paragraph. After rereading and summarizing, read each summary. ​

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Use the process of elimination with questions that use words like "NOT," "ALWAYS" and "SOMETIMES"​

Pay attention to questions with "NOT," "ALWAYS," and "SOMETIMES"

​ONLY choose "ALL OF THE ABOVE" if you are certain that every option is correct

Multiple Select

If you find a question you don't know the answer to, you:

• Take a guess

• Leave it blank and return to it before submitting your test

Multiple Choice

What is a good way to improve your reading over time?

• Understand that you are the perfect reader and that there is no room for improvement

• Read really slow

• Read alot in a short period of time

• Read a bit every day

Multiple Choice

While I'm taking the test, I should remember to...

• talk to my neighbor.

• make lots of noise.

• take my time, but not spend too much time on any one question.

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

While the test directions are being read aloud, I should...

• listen carefully.

• draw pictures on my test.

• talk to everyone.

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

For multiple choice questions, I should...

• choose the first answer that sounds right to me.

• read all the answer choices before picking one.

• say, "eeny meeny miney moe" to pick an answer.

• ask a friend to help me.

Multiple Choice

When I see a long reading passage on my test, I might try...

• reading the questions before reading the passage.

• skipping it and not answering the questions because they're too hard.

• All of the above

8.) Use your Annotations

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• Find key words or phrases in the question that will help you choose the correct answer.

Multiple Choice

If I finish my test quickly, I will probably...

• get a very high score.

• not do as well as others who take their time.

• talk to my neighbor because I am bored.

• get all the answers correct.

Multiple Choice

When answering a short-answer test question, I should...

• not use complete sentences.

• use textual evidence. (The author stated...I know this because...)

• write very quickly and use sloppy handwriting.

• All of the above

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Circle/underline the words that are most helpful in telling us what we need to write about.

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• If you finish early, check to make sure you have answered ALL of the questions.

• Do not leave any questions blank.

7.) Finish Early?

Poll

Where would you say that that you could improve your studies the most?

• Better assignmets/presentations from the teacher

• More focused studies from myself at home

• More work done in school

• Better focus from my part during the presentations

Poll

I feel well prepared for my tests.

• Not at all

• A fair bit

• Mostly

• Totally

Open Ended

Exit Ticket:

In two to three sentences, describe two strategies you will use on your upcoming tests.