What is your job?
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Test Taking Strategies
BOX the key words that tell you what your job is.
Locate the Question
Solve the problem.
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If you don’t know the answer THEN:
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Cross-out the answers you know do not make sense.
Plug in the reamining answers. Work backwards. Try again!
Relax! Guess and Go!!
EXTENDED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE
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BOX the key words that tell you what your job is.
Locate the Question
Look for:
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a. Action Words (verbs)
Explain, estimate, tell, write, draw, etc.
b. Math Terms
Operations: sum, difference, product, quotient
Graphs: table, chart, graph
Comparisons: more than, less than, equal to
Terms: place value, fractions, decimals, percent
c. Number the steps you need to complete the problem and
on the answer sheet.
Solve the problem. Check that you completed each step.
Check that you did your job!!!