Test Taking/Study Skills

The most important thing to do at the beginning of a test is

• PANIC

• Take a deep breath and trust yourself

It is important to read the directions completely. For example, your direction right now is choose FALSE

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

It is important to trust your instinct. This means:

• Trust your gut feelings

• Act like a wolf

• Doubt yourself

Taking notes while reading helps you focus, even if you can't read your own notes.

• True

• False

The most important question to ask yourself on a test is:

• Does this answer make sense?

• What's for lunch today?

• Is my teacher mad at me?

• Where does that highway go to?

In order for your teacher to know what to teach you, you should:

• do your best

• rush through it and panic

Which questions should you answer first?

• The longest ones

• The shortest ones

• The ones you're super sure you know the answer to

• The ones that have the fewest multiple-choice options

How should you first approach a multiple-choice question?

• Read the choices out loud

• Eliminate the longest and shortest choices

• Try to answer it without looking at the choices

• Try to answer it without looking at the question

A multiple choice test has four choices. You know that two of them are definitely wrong. Therefore, you have a ___ chance of getting the question right,

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

Essay questions are more _____ than multiple-choice questions.

• open-ended

• difficult

• simple

• annoying

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4