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Test Taker!
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MAKING YOUR TEST SCORES SOAR

What do you love about
taking tests?

What do you not love about
taking tests?

SAT HSA ITBS PSAT
ACT PERT TABE PLAN
GRE FCAT NGSSS ERB
ASVAB LSAT ARMT ISEE
HASP PASS CAT STARR
TESTING, TESTING AND MORE TESTING
UGH!

Kamaile Academy PCS - Waianae, HI
• 2011 – Test scores were
consistently in the lowest 5% of the
state for both math and reading.
• The test had no impact on student
promotion to the next grade level.

• January 2012 – Mr. D became the
school’s standardized testing
consultant.

2012-2013 School Year
• the highest student growth in the
20+ year history of the school for a
1 year period.

2013-2014 School Year
• Most improved charter school in
Hawaii
• Full 6 year accreditation

What is my 1st secret
to test taking success?

THE
TEST
IS
IMPORTANT!

How do the results from Hawaii apply to
homeschool families?

Business owners are begging
for problem solving abilities
as young people enter
the work force.

What is my 2nd secret
to test taking success?

Mr. D’s 2 Step Method for Taking Tests
(any test/any subject)

Step 1 - Find the Question

Step 1 - Find the Question
Step 2 - Answer the Question

Grade 3 – FCAT Sample Problem

Grade 3 – HSA Sample Problem

Grade 3 – HSA Sample Problem
Up by 4 each time

Grade 5 – PASS Sample Problem

= 72 + 36 = 108

= 72 + 36 = 108
6 x 15 = 90
6 x 12 x 3 = 216
18 x 9 = 162
9 x 12 = 108

Using the distributive property
6 and 3 are both being
multiplied by 12!

Grade 7 – STARR Sample Problem

In a sequence, each term after the first term is found
by adding a constant n to the preceding term. If the
2nd term is 4 and the 5th term is 22, what is the 8th
term in the sequence?
A. 36
B. 40
C. 44
D. 48
E. 52 SAT Sample Problem

SAT Sample Problem

2nd 5th 8th
4 22 ?

2nd 5th 6th 7th 8th
4 22 ?
3
18

What do you know about 3 and 18? 3 X 6 = 18 or 18 / 6 = 3
2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
4 10 16 22 ?
3
18

4 10 16 22 28 34 40
3
18
Now count by 6’s

4 10 16 22 28 34 40
3
18

Grade 7 – FCAT Sample Problem

Read this passage about Jane Goodall and her work with chimpanzees. Then
answer the questions that follow.
JANE GOODALL (1934– )
Imagine traveling to the other side of the world, to a deep, tropical jungle far
away from your family and friends, all of this in the hope of seeing a
chimpanzee. Then, once you are there, you wake up every morning before
dawn, crawl through the brush, climb up mountains, and sit quietly, waiting
just to catch a glimpse of some chimpanzees. And what if you did that every
day for weeks and months? That is exactly what Jane Goodall did. When she
began her research in 1960, women rarely went out alone to do fieldwork like
this. Nowadays there are many men and women ethologists* who have
studied animals in the wild. But Jane Goodall was the first person to make it
her life’s work to study a single species in the wild. Jane Goodall grew up

in England and was determined to go to Africa to see the animals there
and learn everything she could about them. She worked to save up
enough money for the trip to Africa. In Africa, she met Louis Leakey, a
famous anthropologist,* and she worked with him for a year. Louis
Leakey believed that there was much to be learned from studying the
great apes in their natural habitat, and he thought Jane Goodall was
the person to do it. Jane traveled to the Gombe Stream Reserve in
Tanzania. For the first eighteen months, she seldom saw chimpanzees
close-up. But she watched and waited, waited and watched, until the
chimps got used to her and started to come out of the brush. With her
patience and gentleness, Jane Goodall earned the trust of the
chimpanzees, and she got to know them well. Because Jane Goodall
stayed and learned so much, we now know a great deal about the lives
and deaths of chimpanzees over generations. As an authority on
chimpanzees, Jane Goodall has shared what she knows with people all
over the world to protect the animals she has come to understand so
well.

• In the sixteenth century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration,
Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young
Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but he became involved in the
quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king's favor. After he was
dismissed from service to the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future
Emperor Charles V of Spain.
• A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees
W longitude to Spain and all the land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan
offered to prove that the East Indies fell under Spanish authority. On September
20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships. More than a year later, one
of these ships was exploring the topography of South America in search of a water
route across the continent. This ship sank, but the remaining four ships searched
along the southern peninsula of South America. Finally they found the passage
they sought near a latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan named this passage the
Strait of All Saints, but today we know it as the Strait of Magellan.

1. The sixteenth century was an age of great ___exploration.
A. cosmic
B. land
C. marine and terrestrial
D. sun and extraterrestrial
E. none of the above
2. The land assigned to Portugal was 50 degrees E ____________.
A. Latitude
B. Longitude
C. Altitude
D. Below sea level
E. None of the above

Make
the
test
important!

When to Practice:
Begin preparation at least 2 weeks prior
using test prep materials.
Plan 3-4 days per week to practice.

What to practice: Timing is everything!
Practice the test for the same amount of
time the test will be!
(If the test is 40 minutes – practice 40
minutes each time)

How to practice:
Obtain sample tests!
Practice the test the way it is meant to
be taken!

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“Insanity is doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting
the different results.” - Albert
Einstein

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