Effective Multiple Choice Test Taking

What is a test?

• a set of questions

• a set of questions or problems that is designed to measure knowledge, ability, or skill

• what you do at school after you hear something

• work you do that you keep

How should you read most directions on a test?

• Read them from from left to right, top to bottom

• Read only the important words

• Read only the transition words

• Read the words that are long and have the most vowels

How can you make sure you know what the question is asking?

• Reread the question

• Choose an answer quickly, without thinking

• Choose a thought quickly, without answering

• Only read the question one time

What is the BEST thing to do after you read a question?

• Choose an answer

• Read the answer choices two times

• Make your own answer choice before you read the choices they offer

• Skip the question

What is the process of elimination?

• the process of getting rid of wrong answers

• the process of choosing the correct answer

• the process of getting the wrong answer

• all of the above

If more than one answer choice is correct, which answer should you select?

• the choices that makes sense

• the choices you can find text evidence for

• the choices you know have enough details

• all of the above