STAAR Strategies

Before choosing your "final answer" on any multiple choice test, how many answer choices should you look at?

• I can stop when I find one that could be right

• It depends on the question

• Only the longest answer - it's always right

• Always read all answer choices

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Why should you try to get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast before the STAAR test?

• The test is long and tiring - you need to be alert and have energy to do your best

• So that you can speed through the test without reading all of it

• So that you will know what all of the words mean and not have to use a dictionary

• The test is so easy that you don't need to prepare at all

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On testing day, you should:

• Be nervous and assume you will fail

• Be confident - it's a brand new test with no mistakes yet

• Not care whether or not you pass

• Be so confident that you do not take your time or use your testing tools/strategies

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If you had to guess at an answer, it is a good idea to go back when you finish the test and look at the question again.

• True

• False

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When you come to a question for which you don't know the answer, what should you do?

• Don't move until you answer it.

• Take a guess and keep going

• Mark it and come back to it.

• Write a list of facts that you do know.

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When you come to a multiple choice question you don't know the answer to, what can you do first?

• Organize your thoughts in a list.

• Take a guess and move on.

• Double check all your answers.

• Cross off the choices you know are wrong.

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Why should you eat breakfast on test day?

• So you will not have to study.

• So you can think clearly.

• So you will know all the answers.

• So you will not be nervous.

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Why do your need to pace yourself during the test?

• So you answer only the questions you know.

• So you finish the whole test.

• So you can finish the test before your classmates.

• So you remember to write your name on the test.

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What should you do the night before testing?

• Stay up late on snapchat

• Go to bed early and get a goodnight sleep

• Eat a lot of junk food

• Play video games all night

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What are you allowed to do after you complete your test?

• Read a book
• Listen to music
• Leave the room and go outside
• Talk to your neighbor

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