College Entrance Exam Preparation

What are colleges looking for in a prospective applicant?

• A high Grade Point Average

• Acceptable college test scores

• Community involvement

• A variety of factors including but not limited to grades, high school academic coursework, and school and community activities

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What is an efficient way to prepare for college entrance exams?

• practice official questions from college exam websites each day

• take an actual official college entrance test

• buy a book and study as much as you can the day before the exam

• participate in classroom discussion centered on the exam

Cornell Note-Taking is:

• a structured, yet flexible note-taking tool

• proven by Cornell University to be the best note-taking style for all students

• used primarily for the purpose of developing higher-order questioning skills

• used by teachers and professors to monitor students' understanding of texts

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Which of the following is a method of note-taking?

• Cornell Notes

• Graphic Organizers

• Outlines

• Two and Three-Column Notes

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You must revisit your notes multiple times in a variety of ways in order for learning to occur most effectively.

• True

• False

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Which of the following is the ultimate goal for taking focused notes?

• to prepare for tests

• to gather information from texts

• to process new information from texts

• to apply the new knowledge from texts

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A teacher gives you a piece of text to read. Which of the following is crucial for critical reading?

• establish a purpose for reading

• number the paragraphs

• circle and diffuse unknown words

• read the text out loud

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What is the most effective way to analyze the content of a text?

• annotate what the author says in a text

• annotate what the author does in a text

• annotate for the author's claims in a text

• annotate for the author's intentions to write a brief analysis of the content of a text

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Choose THREE: Why is summarizing crucial to a student's understanding of a source?

• requires learners to sift through the information

• highlighting requires differentiating the most important information

• has students consider how the pieces fit together

• has students communicate the big idea in several succinct sentences

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What is the purpose of the GIST strategy?

• to concisely summarize the main ideas of a text

• to bring awareness to word choice when summarizing

• to answer the 5 Ws and 1 H

• to form four four-word sentences that summarize the central message of a text

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