Jeopardy (Test Taking Strategies)

Jeopardy

Multiple Choice

What should you do before a big test?

• Eat tons of junk food!
• Get a full nights rest and eat a healthy breakfast.
• Have a party.
• Pull an all nighter.

Multiple Choice

What part of the passages should you read closely?

• Just the paragraph the question asks about.
• None of it.
• All of it.
• Just skim it.

Multiple Choice

How many of the answer choices should you read on each question?

• All of them
• Skim until you see a correct one
• the first and last one
• Just guess

Multiple Choice

When marking a question for review, you should try to eliminate 1-2 answer choices.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What answers should you eliminate?

• Obviously wrong answers

• Choices that are partly wrong

• Answers that are correct but don't answer the question

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Where can you usually find the main idea of the reading passage?

• At the end

• In the first two paragraphs

• In the last paragraph

• In the title

Multiple Choice

During the test, I should: 

• try hard to copy answers off of my friend.
• tell my teacher that I don't really feel like taking a test today.
• make lots of noise.
• stay calm and give my best effort.

Multiple Choice

If you do not know the answer to a question, you should____.

• make a random guess

• eliminate bad choices, then make an educated guess from remaining choices

• not answer it

• ask the teacher to tell you the answer

Multiple Choice

True or False
I don't need to read the whole passage.  I can go directly to the questions and skim the passage to save time.

• False
• True

Multiple Choice

When testing, you should read

• The Passage

• The Answer Choices

• The Questions

• All the above

Multiple Choice

An important test taking strategy is -

• Process of elimination

• Taking notes as you read

• Reading

• all the above

Multiple Choice

Before answering questions, I should highlight or write down clues and keywords in the question/answer choices?

• Yes, because it will help lead me to the right answer.

• No, because you because it's a waste of time.

Multiple Choice

Before reading the passage, it is important to ___________________?

• Read the Title
• Try to determine if it is Fiction or Non-Fiction
• Look at any pictures and think about what the story may be about
• All of the above

Multiple Choice

True or False

It is ok to take a short pause and breath to refocus myself, during my test.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

It is important for me to read all of the directions.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

NEVER change an answer unless you are 100% sure

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The Plug It In, Plug It In strategy refers to...

• Plugging your ears

• Plugging in your phone charger

• Once you have chosen your answer, plug it in and make sure that it makes sense! (this works really well with vocabulary questions).

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