50 likes | 169 Vues
Learn a comprehensive approach to testing strategies with our 5-step foldable process designed to enhance your analytical skills. This method involves skimming titles and headings, identifying text genres, making predictions, reading key sentences, and scanning question stems. You'll discover how to analyze questions by underlining main topics, circling negative and qualifying words, and applying prior knowledge. Additionally, we’ll guide you through marking the text by numbering paragraphs and identifying key vocabulary, followed by an elimination process to choose the best answers.
E N D
Testing StrategiesCreate a Foldable 5 Steps Analyze the Question Mark the Text Process of Elimination
5 Steps • *Step 1: Skim the title and headings • Step 2: Identify what kind of genre the text is (fiction, non-fiction, functional document etc.) • Step 3: Make a prediction • Step 4: Read the 1st and last sentences • *Step 5: Scan the question stems
Analyze the Question • *1. Underline the main topic of the question (MTQ) • 2. Circle negative words (not, no, prefixes meaning no, etc) • 3. Double underline qualifying words: (most, best, least) • *4. Question the question: This question is asking me to (use verb) • *5.Prior Knowledge: What do I know about this topic?
Mark the Text • 1. Number the paragraphs • 2. Circle: key words, vocabulary, repeated words, or data. • Underline the passages that are relevant to the questions being asked.
Process of Elimination • After reading the passage, reread the questions and answers, then eliminate two answers that do not sound right, make sense, or are not relevant.