Test Taking Straegies

What is the acronym we use to help us remember our test taking strategies?

• UNWARP

• UNWRAP

• TESTS

• ANSWERS

What is the first step of UNWRAP

• U

• Read the passage

• Underline the title and predict the text

• N

If the Passage has no paragraphs to number because it is a poem what should you do?

• Go on to W

• Just read the passage, it won't matter if nothing is numbered.

• Skip it because there are no paragraphs

• Number the lines and stanzas.

Walking through the questions means what?

• Speed reading each question super fast so that you can get to reading the story.

• Walking on you test paper.

• Reading each question in the entire test.

• Reading each question about the passages you are working on, paying attention to key words and details of what they are asking so that you know what to pay more attention to as you read the story.

How many times should you read the passage?

• Just once, I do not want to waste time on my test.

• Only once, I will remember everything.

• Twice, one time for fun and another time for notes.

• Three times, just like an AR book.

When you look at the answer choices in a multiple choice question and cross out the ones that are wrong before finding the correct answer you have used which strategy?

• Christmas Treeing

• Process of Elimination

• Estimating

• UNWRAP

To prove your answer, what do you need?

• Text Evidence

• Text

• Memory

• Luck

What should you do when you are done testing?

• Put my head down and sleep.

• Review my test, make sure that I am happy with the answers I have picked and have all of my text evidence to prove that I am right.

• Look over my test to make sure that I answered every question and did not skip one.

• Check that I filled each answer bubble correctly (inside the lines, evenly shaded, completely filled, and dark enough).

If I am stuck on a question in my test what should I do?

• Stay on that question until I know the answer even though I may run out of testing time.

• Try to look a the student next to me and see if they have the answer.

• Skip it and come back after I have finished the other questions so that I can tackle it with a fresh perspective and not run out of time.

• Raise my hand and ask my teacher a question.

If you don't have time to do it right the first time, how will you have time to ___?

• do it again

• do the assignment

• read the whole passage