Test Taking Tips and Strategies

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Across
  1. 3. Believe in yourself!
  2. 4. Cross-off answers you know are incorrect.
  3. 6. This negative emotion can manifest itself into a physical pain or feeling – avoid it.
  4. 7. Take a breath and calm down.
  5. 8. Be sure to do this the night before the test.
  6. 11. Be sure to nourish yourself the morning of the test.
  7. 13. Look for ideas that are similar and also do this between the reading passages and answers.
  8. 18. Promise yourself this after you do a great job on the test.
  9. 19. Pick our one or two words per paragraph that will help you remember what was going on.
Down
  1. 1. Look over your answers at the end.
  2. 2. Use words around the word you don’t know to figure out the meaning.
  3. 5. This negative emotion could cause you to forget all your great preparation.
  4. 9. Guess what the answer is before looking at the choices.
  5. 10. Find this for the passage as a whole (maybe using the NVW strategy)
  6. 12. The NWEA test is computer based and is this, meaning it changes the next question based on your answer.
  7. 13. Use facilitating anxiety to give you some of this going into the test.
  8. 14. Go over notes in the days leading up to the test.
  9. 15. Setting up a schedule to do this will help you keep up with schoolwork all year.
  10. 16. Do this to ALL answer choices before picking one.
  11. 17. You may have to do this between fractions, decimals, etc.