Study Strategies

When is the best time to start to study for a test?

• On the bus on the way to school.

• The night before the test.

• Daily studying , starting a week(s) before the test.

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

• Don't move on until you answer it.

• Mark it and come back to it.

• Take a blind guess and keep going.

• Write a list of facts that you do know.

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.
• Double check all your answers. 
• Take a guess and move on. 
• Cross off the choices you know are wrong.

If there are reading passages on a test, it's a good idea to _______.

• Organize your thoughts in a list.

• Read the questions before the passages.

• Read the passages first.

• Highlight the main idea.

If you are given a reading during a test what can you do while you read?

• close your eyes

• highlight details

• speed read

• only remember dates

What is the best way to study a large amount of information?

• try to memorize it all

• spend 15 minutes each night

• re-write all the information

How can you test yourself to check in how you are doing with studying?

• read it once and never go back

• have someone ask you questions about the topic

• take notes by trying to write full sentences

Which is NOT a solid study strategy while reading for information the first time?

• visualizing

• self-questioning

• taking margin notes

• skimming

Reading aloud is helpful?

• true

• false

Reading the same thing different ways is beneficial?

• true

• false