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 “Four-Square” foldable. 1. Six-Step-Start-Up2. Analyze the Question 3. Mark the Text4. 50/50 Four Step Test Prep

3. 1. Six-Step-Start-Up Step 1: Underline the title Step 2: Circle Pictures Step 3: Read 1 st & 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.