Test-Taking Strategies

What answers 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

You must review your answers before submitting your test.

• true

• false

What is the final step of the R.A.P. strategy?

• proofread

• underline the topic

• prove

• reread

Which testing tool allows you to mark which questions to go back and review?

• flagging

• highlighting

• strikethrough

• line reader

What is the best, general test-taking strategy of all time?

• Guess on every problem

• Process of Elimination

• Letter of the Day

• Plug in the Answer Choices

When beginning a reading test, what should you do first?

• read the passages

• answer all of the questions

• DRAKE it

• read and annotate the questions

What is the correct order of steps to take a test?

• Read the passage, read the questions, answer the questions.

• Read the questions, answer the questions, read the passage.

• Read the questions, read the passage, answer the questions.

• Answer the questions, read the questions, read the passage.

When annotating a question what should you box in?

• What the question is asking me to do.

• Where the question is wanting to find my answer.

• The important words.

• The right answer.

When labeling the question as skim or read, what does skim mean?

• That I have to read the entire passage to get my answer.

• That I have to replace words in the passage.

• That I can find my answer in one place without having to read the whole passage.

• That I don't need to answer that question.

What is a common strategy to use when you encounter a difficult question on a test?

• Skip it and come back later

• Guess immediately

• Spend extra time on it

• Ask the teacher for help