Test Taking Skills

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

Which of the following is NOT an effective test-taking strategy?

• Process of elimination

• Don't overthink and ignore an obvious answer

• Don't panic and budget time wisely

• Guess without reading all of the answers

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%

To study for a final exam or unit test, your best option is to...

• study corrected tests from the semester

• reread every chapter covered since the beginning of the semester

• forget studying. You either know it or you don't.

• None of the above.

When you finish a test, you should____.

• start talking to your friends

• leave the classroom

• shout, "I'm done!"

• review the test and check your answers

On the day of the test, I should ____________________. 

• Eat a good breakfast. 

• Sleep in and be late to school 

• Skip breakfast. 

• Skip school. 

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 my friend to help me.

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.

This test taking strategy is what you should use if you know there are choices that are not correct.

• Process of Elimination

• Compare and Contrast

• QAR

• RUGSS

To use PROCESS OF ELIMINATION, read the question and answer choices and answer choices and eliminate

• answer choices you are not sure what they mean

• answer choice(s) you are around 90% sure are not true

• answer choices that look like they could be right

• nothing