Test Taking Strategies

Testing week is April 17-21.

1. Read directions or question carefully.
2. Tell you child not to worry about finishing first or even last.
3. If you don’t know an answer, skip it and go on.  Work on the easy questions first.  If you have time at the end, return to the unanswered questions.
4. Think about key words, try to restate the question in your own words.
5. Use the process of elimination.  Decide the answers that are definitely not the answer and then look at the remaining choices. 
6. Look for clues in the question.
7. If you are answering questions about a paragraph and the paragraph is still available to you, then look back and reread in the paragraph.
8. If you have tried everything else, then guess.