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EDUC 156
Week 3
Top 10 Strategies to Raise Your Score• Create a study plan and use it.• Don’t get stuck on one question.• Learn the directions in advance.• Read questions carefully.• Read all responses before choosing.• Do not spend too much time on one question.• Guess if you need to.• Essay- Develop your ideas and express clearly.• Paper-Make sure you are on the right dot.• Relax the night before to prepare.
The plus/minus strategy
• As you go through the questions the first time…– Answer those you know.– Place a minus sign in front of those
seeming impossible and mark a guessed answer.
– Place a + in front of those you probably can do, but are time consuming, and mark a guessed answer.
After you have finished responding to all…• Go back to your + signs.• See if you can do some of those.
• Or
• Go back and check to make sure your other work has been done correctly.
• Don’t worry about erasing the + and – signs.
Reading Test Tips
• Before you read the passage…– Read the question.– Mark any important part of the
question.– Do not read the answers – too time
consuming.– Feel free to mark the passage.– Use only information stated or
directly implied in the passage.– Eliminate wrong responses.
Math Test Tips• Mark key words.• If letter are challenging, plug in the
numbers.• Work from the answers – Can any be
ruled out?• Estimate/Approximate to save time.• Eliminate answers.• Make comparisons.• Mark on diagrams.• Draw diagrams.• If you are asked for the procedure, do
not work the problem.
Writing Test Tips
• Check – Verbs– Verb tenses– Pronouns– Adjectives and adverbs– Parallelism– Idioms– Dangling elements– Comparisons– Capitalization and punctuation
Essay Writing
• Read the topic twice.• Prewrite.• Don’t slow the flow (go back to make
corrections).• Save time for editing at the end.• Do not write excessively large.• Do not leave large margins or skip lines.• Double check your time, prewriting
space, and writing space.
Go to page 77 in Cliffs
• We will write the Topic 1 essay.