Test Taking Strategies

TAKS Multiple Choice

Strategies

Read Question carefully before you begin eliminating answers

Make sure to read through every answer choice even if you think 1st or 2nd is correct

Cross through the each answer you know is incorrect

Avoid Absolutes- always, never, every, none

Strategies Continued

In “all of the above” or “none of the above if you know one choice is either correct or wrong then do not choose all or none choice

As you go through each answer cross through the ones you know are incorrect

Choose answer that agrees grammatically Example

A and an = singular Are = Plural

If you have to guess!!!

Choose the longest answer if others are much shorter

Choose from among familiar items Choose neither of the similar answers If opposite answers are given as choices

one of them is often the answer

Why are TAKS Skills important?

On the last TAKS Release test 31 out of 50 questions were based on Skills.

That means you can almost pass the TAKS Test just by answering all of the skills questions correctly

Coach Derrick,Why is it good that the TAKS test is mostly skill based? 1. Because on a skills question you can

narrow it down to the correct answer without a shadow of a doubt.

2. On a skills question the answer is on the paper in front of you, You just have to take the time to find it

2. Often times a skills question will not require prior knowledge.

How do I get a skills question correct?

1. Do not look at question or answer choices until you have Read the title Looked at legend, key, X axis, Y axis etc.. Look for patterns Ask yourself what the map or chart is trying

to tell me Draw conclusion about map, chart etc… Then look at the question that goes with it

How do I get a skills question correct? Continued

Take your TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are not limited by time Take time now, Pass it and you don’t have

to take it again next year.

Strategies Continued

Always use a highlighter on skills questions

Make a box and every time you know a question is right make a hash-mark in the box

Your Goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To Pass you should shoot for 45 out of 60 questions correct

To Be Commended you should shoot for 57 out of 60

Go out and SWAT the TAKS

Good Luck