Test Taking Strategies

Multiple Choice

If I'm answering the questions in the FAST test correctly, will they become harder or easier?

• harder

• easier

Multiple Choice

ALWAYS PLAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT THE QUESTION IS REALLY ASKING.

"Which question from the text best captures the central idea?"

Which type of question is this?

• Choose two

• Best

• mentions a specific section of the text

• key benchmark vocabulary

Multiple Choice

PLAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT THE QUESTION IS REALLY ASKING:

"Select two ways in which the speaker develops the central idea that the honey program costs more than it is worth."

Which type of question is this?

• Choose two

• Best

• mentions a specific section of the text

• key benchmark vocabulary

Multiple Select

PLAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT THE QUESTION IS REALLY ASKING:

"Fill in the bubble before the word from Passage 1 that comes from a Lating root word meaning "settled" or "still".

Which type of question is this?

• Choose two

• Best

• mentions a specific section of the text

• key benchmark vocabulary

Multiple Choice

PLAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT THE QUESTION IS REALLY ASKING:

"In the first stanza, how does the Pebble's exaggeration of his accomplishments add to the author's purpose?"

Which type of question is this?

• Choose two

• Best

• mentions a specific section of the text

• key benchmark vocabulary

Multiple Choice

WHICH SECTION OF THE TEXT WILL YOU GO TO FIND THE RESPONSE FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:

"In the first stanza, how does the Pebble's exaggeration of his accomplishments add to the author's purpose?"

• First paragraph/stanza

• Second paragraph/stanza

• Third paragraph/stanza

• Read it all

Multiple Choice

What is the "Mark for review" option for?

• to flag a question I want to review later

• to get the correct answer

• to exit the test

• to get extra credit

Multiple Choice

When answering multiple choice questions, what is the "strikethrough" option for?

• to underline important words

• to get more points in the test

• to exit the test

• to cross out answer choices I think are incorrect

Multiple Choice

Selectable hot text: how to use it?

• Making the text hot by highlighting it in red

• I don't know

• Hover over certain words on the text to see the options that highlights. Then click on the correct option to select it.

• Highlighting the text and then flagging the question to get back to it later

Multiple Choice

External copy interaction: This item type asks you to click on the box to select a sentence from the passage. What should you do to answer this type of questions?

• Click next to go to the following question

• Click on the button that has a little pencil, and when the associated text appears (with highlighting), select the text that answers the question

• Clickk on the button that has a little pencil, and when the associated text appears, click on the next question

• Click on the paragraph to see the highlighted text, and select the next question to continue with the test

Multiple Choice

Multiselect questions: I will be directed to select a specific number of correct answers from the options provided. Then, I'll get the green check mark to continue with the next question. In this example,  how many correct answers I must select?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• All

Multiple Choice

Table match: you will be directed to click a box that matches a correct option from a column with a correct option from a row.

How many correct options are there per row or column?

• Typically, there's one row with no option

• Typically, there's more than one option per row or column

• Typically, there's only one correct option per row or column

• Typically, I will leave this question in blank

Multiple Choice

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

• highlighter

• strikethrough

• mark for review

• line reader

Multiple Choice

• True

• False