Preparation
Strategies
Reducing Anxiety
Reading Vocabulary
Math Vocabulary
100
How many hours of sleep you should get the night before taking the FSA.
What is 8-10 hours?
100
The words "compare", "author's purpose", and "except"
What are key words to look for in a question?
100
You should do this when your body feels nervous.
What is take deep breaths?
100
Determine the author's reason behind his/her writing (inform, entertain, persuade)
What is author's purpose?
100
Means the same or equal to.
What is equivalent?
200
Brain food
What is protien?
200
To not second-guess yourself.
What is sticking with your first answer?
200
When you feel like you don't know all the answers, you should continue to do this.
What is be positive?
200
Guess based on what you know and have read.
What is predict?
200
To stand for something else.
What is represent?
300
You should not eat/drink this before taking the FSA
What is sugar and caffine?
300
You should do this before reading the passage.
What is read all the questions?
300
You should do this if your body is feeling "antsy" (wanting to move around).
What is re-position yourself in your seat?
300
Read between the lines.
What is infer?
300
Numbers that can only be divided by 1 and itself (e.g., 3, 5, 11).
What is prime number?
400
You should do this the morning of the FSA
What is eat a good breakfast?
400
You should do this after reading the question.
What is try to answer the question before looking at the choices?
400
You should realize that you are doing your ____ while taking the test.
What is that you are doing your best?
400
What the "whole" passage is about.
What is main idea?
400
per, rate, total, times, twice, and product of
What are words for multiplication problems?
500
How early you should arrive to school on testing days.
What is at least 15 minutes early?
500
You should do this if you are spending more than 1 minute on the question.
What is skip the question and go back to it at the end?
500
It is normal for this to increase in your body when you're anxious.
What is adrenaline?
500
Things in the passage that describe only small pieces of information.
What are details?
500
half, how many each, out of, quarter, and percent
What are words for division problems?
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