How To Pass Any Test Without Really Trying

First : TAKE YOUR TIME! Read through ALL directions carefully Read through ALL of the possible answers BEST means BEST not FIRST!

Read through ALL directions carefully

Read through ALL of the possible answers

BEST means BEST not FIRST!

Second : NO “ STARWARS ” Answer what you KNOW for certain first – NO Guessing SKIP what Don’t know or doubt Lightly Cross out/mark USED items ANY question may give you the answer you couldn’t remember earlier! Put a light mark on your scantron if you skip something - TAKE YOUR TIME!

Answer what you KNOW for certain first – NO Guessing

SKIP what Don’t know or doubt

Lightly Cross out/mark USED items

ANY question may give you the answer you couldn’t remember earlier!

Put a light mark on your scantron if you skip something - TAKE YOUR TIME!

THIRD : TAKE AN EDUCATED GUESS Apply what you already know: Use logic or reason : Reduce your options: 50/50

Apply what you already know:

Use logic or reason :

Reduce your options: 50/50

Use Deductive Reasoning : What you already know. Word Meanings - prefix/suffix = meaning!! dis- = not anti- = opposite or against -s = plural information learned in earlier grades recall the activities we did in class! ( looks, sounds, actions )

Word Meanings - prefix/suffix = meaning!!

dis- = not

anti- = opposite or against

-s = plural

information learned in earlier grades

recall the activities we did in class! ( looks, sounds, actions )

Use logic or reason : think logically = MUST make sense tenses, parts of speech, word endings plural/singular person, place, event, or idea? Who? Which one? How many? When?

think logically = MUST make sense

tenses, parts of speech, word endings

plural/singular

person, place, event, or idea?

Who?

Which one?

How many?

When?

Reduce your options: 50/50 eliminate the impossible mark off choices used lightly so can erase

eliminate the impossible

mark off choices used

lightly so can erase

Some BASIC Rules : If it doesn’t sound familiar – it isn’t the answer! DUHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Your FIRST guess is most often right! Don’t second guess yourself! Change an answer only when you RECOGNIZE an error! If all else fails, mark option ‘B’

If it doesn’t sound familiar – it isn’t the answer! DUHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Your FIRST guess is most often right!

Don’t second guess yourself!

Change an answer only when you RECOGNIZE an error!

If all else fails, mark option ‘B’