WorksheetsTest Taking Strategies
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
You can eliminate a question by...
skipping it and moving on to the next one.
guessing the answer at random.
assuming the answer is C.
crossing out the answers that are obviously wrong.
Which of the following is/are not a test taking strategy?
Cheating
Elimination
Taking a sick day
Following directions
What should you do before your test?
Get lots of sleep.
Drink lots of coffee the night before.
Play computer games until 12 o'clock.
Eat a healthy breakfast.
Wait until the morning to get ready.
What should you do when you come to a difficult question?
Don't answer it.
Skip it and come back to it later.
Guess.
Ask the person sitting next to you.
What is the first thing I should do when taking a test?
Check your answers
Read the instructions and questions
Read the passage
Annotate the text
What is the second thing I should do when taking a test?
Annotate the text
Check your answers
Skip the hard questions
Read the instructions and questions
What should I do if I can't physically annotate a text on a test?
Take notes on a Google Doc
Do nothing because it can't be done
Just remember the things I would've highlighted
Use a scratch paper to take notes
What do you do before you take a test?
Go to the bathroom
Eat a healthy snack or meal
Drink some water
Go to bed early the night before
ALL of these
What happens if you guess wrong on an answer?
Nothing
Your test score will show what information you know and do not know
The planet will stop moving
Puppies will no longer be cute
When you are confused about a test question, what should you do?
Give up
Cry and take a nap
Stare at the wall and hope this is a dream
Take a breath, read the directions while taking notes, and answer with an educated guess
Which tools should you use during the test?
highlighter tool
strike through tool
graph paper
flag
blank paper
When answering questions I should
(choose all that apply)
Look for context clues to figure out words I do not know
Eliminate Wrong Answers
Highlight evidence from the text
Reread the passage if necessary
What are examples of text-features that I should look for when reading a text?
(choose all that apply)
Bold print, underlined print, italics
Charts, tables
Titles/Headings
Diagrams, Pictures, Maps
Sometimes the test answer choices can be very tricky. What are some ways test writers might try to "trick" you?
(choose all that apply)
Put in answers that make sense but were not mentioned in the text.
Provide an answer choice that has information from the passage, but does not answer what is being asked.
The passage provides evidence of the answer.
What is the third thing I should do when taking a test?
Skip the hard questions
Check your answers
Read and annotate the text
What is the fourth thing I should do when taking a test?
Read and annotate the text
Skip the hard questions
Read the instructions and questions
Check your answers
What should I annotate when reading a text for a test?
Anything I need to memorize
Need-to-Know topics / events related to the questions
Anything that seems important to the story
The topic sentence of each paragraph
