1. Test Strategies
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2. Test Taking Be aware of time so you can pace yourself
Listen closely to directions
Bring all materials
Keep a positive attitude
Read the entire question
Write legibly

3. Reading Strategies Underline or highlight important words
Follow along with a pencil as you read
Try to sound out words that you do not know
Read the questions before and after the passage
Read the story twice
Take notes
Watch the clock!

4. Applying Reading Strategies
Highlight or underline the most important terms or phrases from the question below.
Earthquakes occur when tension in the Earth’s crust suddenly gives away. Sometimes this tension builds up many kilometers below the Earth’s surface. Which of the following best describes the motion of the waves produced when that tension gives away?

5. Writing Strategies Indent paragraphs Restate in complete sentences
Check and re-check punctuation
Introduction and conclusion
Check spelling
Read your completed essay
Never ever leave an answer blank
Be sure you have a sentence for each point
Only write inside the box

6. Multiple Choice Strategies
Use process of elimination
Read the questions before and after the question
Look back in the passage for answers
Underline important words in the passage
Never ever leave an answer blank

7. Test Vocabulary Infer: to make an educated guess
Determine: to make a decision
Identify: to relate, recognize or show
Analyze: to break down
Draw a conclusion: provide an outcome

8. Test Vocabulary
Compare: to examine likeliness or difference (there must be at least two things)
Support: to back up with reasoning or evidence
Describe: narrate
Summarize: to condense the main ideas

9. Test Vocabulary Composition: a piece of writing
Explain: to make understandable: to give reasons
Effect: result
Represent: to symbolize
Express: to communicate, to show

10. Test Vocabulary Apply: to make relevant
Interpret: to clarify the meaning by restating or explaining
Compute: calculate
Construct: create
Evaluate: to appraise value