THE STUDY SMART SERIES, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays. Test taking is a skill apart from learning course material, a skill every student must acquire in order to survive. Test-Taking Strategies is the book for anyone who has ever dreaded an exam. Strategies for taking every kind of test are dealt with—objective tests (multiple choice, true/false, matching), essay tests, and oral exams. The authors also offer help for handling anxiety, explaining relaxation and desensitization techniques that help students control nervousness and keep it from detracting from performance. There are tips for managing time during the test, knowing when to guess, and for pulling answers out of your memory even when the question drew a blank at first glance. Essay tests and oral exams are particularly gruesome for most students, and until now there has been very little advice for handling such tests. Test-Taking Strategies includes plenty of advice for developing ideas while under pressure.
Author(s): Judi Kesselman-Turkel, Franklynn Peterson
Edition: 2nd
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 128
Contents......Page 6
Introduction: Why You need to Become Testwise......Page 8
1. Before-the-Test Study Strategies......Page 12
2. What do do About Before-the-Test Worry......Page 25
3. What to Do in the Test Room......Page 30
4. How to Do Your Best on Any Kind of Test......Page 36
5. Multiple-Choice Test Strategies......Page 47
6. True-False Exam Strategies......Page 55
7. Matching Questions Strategies......Page 58
8. Verbal Analogy Strategies......Page 60
9. Short-Answer and Fill-in-the-Blank Test Strategies......Page 64
10. Vocabulary Test Strategies......Page 67
11. Number Problem Strategies......Page 72
12. Math or Figure Series Test Strategies......Page 78
13. Reading Comprehension Test Strategies......Page 83
14. Essay Exam Strategies......Page 86
15. Identify-and-Explain Test Strategies......Page 101
16. Oral Exam Strategies......Page 103
17. Open-Book and Take-Home Exam Strategies......Page 108
Appendix A: Helpful Books, Internet Sites and Software......Page 110
Appendix B: Most-Used Exam Direction Words......Page 112
Appendix C: How Most Ideas are Organized Logically......Page 114
Appendix D: Some Common English Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots......Page 116
