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Test Preparation Strategies

Test Preparation Strategies. When taking a test, understanding what a multiple choice question is asking you to do and expecting you to know is essential. Today, we will learn a few skills that help us: understand what multiple choice questions ask us to do.

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Test Preparation Strategies

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  1. Test Preparation Strategies • When taking a test, understanding what a multiple choice question is asking you to do and expecting you to know is essential. • Today, we will learn a few skills that help us: • understand what multiple choice questions ask us to do. • understand what multiple choice questions expect us to know. • understand how to mark a text on which the multiple choice questions are based.

  2. Use a piece of blank paper to create your own “Piece of the Pie” foldable. 4-PART Test Prep

  3. 1. Six-Step-Start-Up • Step 1: Underline the title • Step 2: Circle Pictures • Step 3: Read 1st & Last paragraphs or sentences. • Step 4: Make a prediction about what the text will be about. • Step 5: Identify purpose of text -To persuade? To inform? To entertain? • Step 6: Put # of paragraph next to correct answer

  4. 2. Analyze the Question • 1. Circle content vocabulary and write brief explanation or definition of the term • 2. Underline essential information • 3. Box qualifying words like MOST, LEAST, NOT, NEVER • 4. Question the Question: This question is asking me to _________. • 5. Brain Dump: What do I know about this topic?

  5. 3. Mark the Text • 1. Number the paragraphs • 2. Circle key words or vocabulary that relate to question • 3. Underline the answers as you find them

  6. 4. 50/50 • After reading the passage, reread the question and answers, then eliminate two answers that do not sound right, do not make sense, or do not fit.

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