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Learn practical strategies to ace your tests. Get tips for before, during, and after the test, and improve your test-taking skills across subjects like math and reading.
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‘Twas the Night Before Testing • Go to bed on time. Get plenty of rest. • Talk to your parents about any concerns that you might have about the test.
The Morning of Testing • Eat a good breakfast with protein before coming to school! It will help you think better and keeps you from getting sleepy. • Relax! • Think Positive!
General Tips • If you do not understand the directions the first time, you may ask your teacher to re-read the directions. • Preview the questions before you begin. • Read and re-read the entirequestion…make sure you understand what you are being asked to do! • If both of your pencils break, please raise your hand and ask for another.
Selected Response Questions • Read the question andallanswer choices before marking anything. • You may go back to the story/poem/passage and re-read if you don’t know the answer to a question.
Pace Yourself-UseTime Wisely • Don’t spend too much time on any one question. Do your best and then move on. • Answers all of the questions. Choose the answer you think is the MOST correct. • Don’t leave any blank.
I know C isn’t the answer! perimeter The Process of Elimination • Eliminate answers that don’t make sense. • You can cross the wrong answers out in your test booklet. DON’T cross out the bubble, cross out the incorrect words/answer. c • If you can eliminate two wrong answers, your chance of choosing the right answer is greater.
Math BCR’s and ECR’s • Reread the BCR or ECR to make sure you have answered all the parts of the question. • You must fit your answer inside the box provided. • Show all of your work. Show all of the math, even the parts you can do in your head. • Don’t erase any of your work. • Label all of your math work!!!
Math BCRs • WHY BCRs-Prove It! • Prove it by showing the math two ways. • Prove it by showing the inverse operation. • Prove it with a labeled math drawing. • Prove it with a definition for geometry terms. • Prove it with lots of labels. • SHOW ALL of your work.
Reading BCRs • Read the question carefully. • Answer the question that is asked. • Give support from the text. • Make an inference that further explains your answer. • An inference is SOMETHING EXTRA that you had to figure out that the text did not come out and say.
Skip, Return, Check • If you finish early, check to make sure you have answered all questions. • Double check your work.
What did that question say? • Make sure you understand what the question is asking. • Carefully re-read the question, if you don’t. • Be sure you are responding to the question that is being asked.
A Matter of Time • If any time remains, spend it on the questions you skipped or checking your work. • As you go back through, do not change all answers. . . Your first answer is usually right. • Don’t worry if you run out of time.
Final Tips • Fill in bubbles completely. • Make your marks heavy and dark. • Write neatly. • Erase stray marks.
The Death Grip • If your arm tires during testing it is probably due to the grip that you have on your pencil. • Relax the grip and give those muscles a break. • Wiggle your fingers for a few seconds.
Thank you, Mr. Know-it-all! • Rememberit's okay not to know everything— unlike class tests, these tests will have some questions designed to challenge the limits of your knowledge! • Do your very best, you’ll be surprised with how much you really do know!
