Study Skills Unit Review

Being absent and not making up missed work, not paying attention in class, nor completing homework, procrastinating to begin studying, and then running out of time are all examples of ____.

• Being successful

• Reasons of doing poorly on tests or quizzes

• Reasons you pass your courses

• Reasons you are a test-taking master

Knowing what material will be included on the test, budgeting your time well in advance to study and review, practicing by making flash cards for key material using Quizlet.com are all examples of test-taking _______.

• Failures

• Options

• Questions

• Strategies

When answering Multiple-Choice test questions, watch for trick-words or trick answer choices such as ________.

• always

• never

• only

• all the above

One of the best strategies for answering Multiple-Choice questions is to _____, such as narrowing your answer choices down to two.

• Treat each question as a true-false situation

• Ask your teacher for the answer

• Just take a guess

• Quit working on the test

In a True-False test item, if any part of the question or statement is false, the entire question or statement is false.

• True

• False

When answering these kind of test questions, one incorrect answer can create a "domino-effect" of many wrong answers; this is common in ____ tests.

• True-False

• Short-response

• Matching

• Multiple-choice

When answering a short-response question, if you answer just one part of the question correctly, the entire answer will be correct.

• True

• False

Reading the question multiple times, outlining the main topics in the margins of the paper you plan to answer and writing your response in a paragraph format is using the "_____" strategy.

• Read On Winning

• ROW

• Running On Without

• Reach One Wonder

Fear of the unknown, fear of feeling inadequate and the fear of the high-stakes are common _______.

• Professional athletes fears

• Test-taking fears

• Among high-school graduates

• Driving fears

Before you take a test, it does not matter if you talk with other students who have negative thoughts, saying things such as, "I'm going to fail this test anyway."

• True

• False