Test Taking Strategies

What should you do before a big test?

• Eat tons of junk food!

• Get a full night's rest and eat a healthy breakfast.

• Have a sleepover.

• Watch a scary movie.

When you have a passage to read, what should you do before reading it thoroughly?

• Read, just read.

• Answer the questions without reading.

• Look at the questions so you know what to read for.

• Just skim the passage and guess the answers.

How many of the answer choices should you read on each question?

• All of them
• Skim until you see a correct one
• the first and last one
• Just guess

What is the method of eliminating answers?

• Cross out or ignore ones that you KNOW are wrong
• Don't read the first two answers
• Chose an answer you think is wrong
• Eat pizza

What questions should you eliminate?

• Obviously wrong answers
• Choices that are partly wrong
• Answers that are correct but don't answer the question
• All of the above

What is an educated guess?

• Using everything you know in attempt to answer the question
• Knowing the correct answer and getting ti right
• Having no idea and guess any random answer
• All of the above

What are the 3 things you should ALWAYS do when taking a test?

• Eat, Sleep, Drink
• Laugh, Cry, Scream
• Listen, Read, Ask for clarity
• Rise, Shine, Live

How much time should you spend on a test?

• As little as possible
• All the time allowed
• Take a long time and hope it is extended
• None

Where can you usually find the main idea of the reading passage?

• At the end
• In the first two paragraphs
• In the last paragraph
• In the first sentence

When taking the reading part of a test, which of these strategies should you use?

• Read the questions first

• Plot diagram

• Only do the even questions

• The writing process