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multiple choice strategies

multiple choice strategies. Whatever you do, DON’T. look at the possible answers. Whatever you do, DON’T. leave a question blank. This is a “high stakes” reading test. Don’t skim. Don’t look at the questions first. Don’t blindly guess (unless it's a time thing.). Count on.

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multiple choice strategies

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  1. multiple choice strategies

  2. Whatever you do, DON’T look at the possible answers.

  3. Whatever you do, DON’T leave a question blank.

  4. This is a “high stakes” reading test Don’t skim. Don’t look at the questions first. Don’t blindly guess (unless it's a time thing.)

  5. Count on Variety: fiction, nonfiction letter speech essay play Science journals Novel excerpts “primary source documents” poetry

  6. Count on diversity age difficulty ideas genre

  7. There are not 54 questions on the test. There are just a few types of questions: inference purpose context tone rhetorical term

  8. inference • high volume question • “intelligence”

  9. purpose questions function Why is this here? What should go here? evidence audience structure

  10. context questions high volume question The answers to context questions are often “8 lines” above or “8 lines” below. The answer to a context question is rarely the “common” definition.

  11. rhetorical term questions The correct answer is never the weird rhetorical term. anaphora chiasmus paraprosdokian

  12. There might not be a right answer. There might be a best answer. (key)

  13. They want you to feel stupid. You can’t know every word. context etymology Words come from somewhere.

  14. a pattern to consider The test usually begins by asking a question(s) about the whole passage and then moves through the passage in a linear pattern. And so therefore...

  15. exam vocabulary question stem key distracters 2013 Corvette

  16. a Corvette can have characteristics long weird word recapitulation of a words or phrases from the passage fact half right

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