Test-Taking Strategies

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

• In the bus on way to school

• Daily, starting a week before the test.

• The night before the test

• Skip breakfast and study then

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

• Take a guess and keep going

• Mark it and come back to it

• Write a list of facts that you know

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

• Organize your thoughts in a list

• Take a guess and move on

• Double check your answers

• Cross off the choices you know are wrong.

Why should you eat breakfast on test day?

• So you will not have to study

• So you can think clearly

• So you will know all the answers

• So you will not be nervous

What should you do if you don't understand the test directions?

• Ask the teacher to explain them to you

• Guess at what they mean and get started

• Re read them six times

• Put your head down

Why do you need to pace yourself during the test?

• So you answer only the questions you know

• So you finish the whole test

• So you can finish the test before your classmates

• So you remember to write your name on the test