Answering Multiple Choice Questions

What strategy can help you to figure out what the question is asking?

• Just read it over and over and over and over.

• Underline the key words.

• Draw a picture of what you think it might mean.

• Ask a parent for help.

After reading the answer options, what should you do?

• Just take a guess! You have a chance. It might be right.

• Try to cross out two options that you know are wrong.

After selecting the best answer you can, what do you do next?

• Go quickly to the next question. It's not good to spend too much time on tests.

• Read the question and answer one more time to check if your answer makes sense.

• Take a nap. You deserve it.

• Change your answer immediately. Your first idea can't be right.

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

• reviewing the lines the question is asking about

• crossing out questions you know do not make sense

• underline key words in the question

• picking a random answer and praying for the best

4. 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.

• Take a guess and move on.

• Double check all your answers.

• Cross off the choices you know are wrong.

If I do not know a multiple choice answer, I should

• Leave it blank,

• Go to sleep

• Read each answer, eliminate, and make the best guess

• Choose C because that is always the right answer.

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

If you do not know the answer to you multiple choice question, you should NOT...

• re-read the question

• eliminate the ones you think are wrong

• take your very best guess

• skip it

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

• read the passage

• highlight important lines

• read the questions

• write "I love ELA" on the cover

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

• read the passage thoroughly

• answer the questions

• create a pretty pattern on your scantron page

• move on to the next story