Test Taking Strategies

Test Time!

•Take the test......

•Do your best.....

Test Taking Strategies

RATE YOUR TEST TAKING STRATEGIES

Review Your Test Takinig Skills

As soon as a test is announced in class, I write it in my assignment pad and on my monthly planning calendar

I plan time in my daily schedule to study for a test

I don’t leave all my studying for the night before the test

I can easily find all my notes, homework assignments, and papers for every class

My notes make sense to me

If I’m not sure what will be covered on the test, I ask my teacher

If I don’t understand the material, I ask my teacher for help a few days before the test

I have a place to study where I am comfortable and not distracted

I take responsibility for myself

Test Taking Anxieties

Reasons for Doing Badly On a Test

Test Taking Notes

•Test Anxiety - How We Develop Feelings of Panic

•Prevent Test Anxiety by:

•be overprepared

•use relaxation techniques

•use positive self affirmation

Test Taking Notes

Preparation for Test Taking

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Test Taking Notes

Putting Your Skills to Work

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Test Taking NotesStop!

Take the provided paper labeled Test Taking Notes....

Develop 5 multiple choice questions based on these two sections of notes.Hold on to this....

Test Taking Notes

Subjective and Objective Exams/Tests

True and False

Multiple Choice

Sentence completion

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Test Taking NotesStop!

Add 4 dramatic headlines (with color) describing two tips from each category to your Test Taking Notes page

True and False

Multiple Choice

Sentence completion

Test Taking Notes

Sentence Completion and Fill In

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Test Taking Notes

Strategies for Essay Exams

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Test Taking Notes

Writing the Essay

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Test Taking Notes

Stop!

Add a mind map or outline showing tips about:

Strategies for essay exams

Writing Essay exams

Test Taking Notes

Finally!Complete the comic strip

Show 3 pictures of testing anxiety symptoms

Show 3 ways to cope with test anxiety

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