Test Taking Strategies Reading

What is step #2 in our Test Taking Strategies?

• Read Questions

• Read the SubHeadings

• Answers

• Answers

What is the first thing you should do when taking the test?

• read the passage

• highlight important lines

• answer the questions

• read the questions

Once you've read the multiple choice questions, before reading the story, what should you do next?

• answer the questions

  
  

• start reading the passage

  
  

• highlight important lines in passage that come up in questions

  
  

• ask your teacher for the answers

  
  

After using the multiple choice questions to highlight key lines in the passage, what should you do?

• read the passage thoroughly and annotate

• draw on your scratch paper

  
  

• answer the questions

  
  

• move on to the next story

  
  

When answering the multiple choice questions, which of the following is NOT a good strategy?

• reviewing the lines the question is asking about

  
  

• underline key words in the question

  
  

• crossing out questions you know do not make sense

  
  

• picking a random answer and praying for the best

  
  

What does it mean to annotate the passage?

• Copy the entire paragraph onto your scratch paper

• Summarize the whole story in one paragraph

• Read one paragraph at a time and then jot down the main points

• Completely ignore your piece of scratch paper and leave it empty

What strategy do we use when writing a Short Constructed Response?

• FANBOYS

• RACE

• UNWRAP

• You don't need a strategy. You just write your answer.

If I don't know the definition of a word what should you do?

• Use the dictionary

• Re-read the sentence with the word

• Re-read the sentences around the one with the word.

• Ignore the word and move on

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

• Organize your thoughts in a list.

  
  

• Double check all your answers.

  
  

• Take a guess and move on.

  
  

• Cross off the choices you know are wrong.

  
  

For multiple choice questions, I should _________________________. 

• Choose the first answer that sounds right to me. 

• Read all the answer choices before picking one. 

• Say "eeny  meeny miney moe" to pick an answer.

• Ask my friend to help me.