Words that often imply the wrong answer on the CST.
E.g. ALL, NONE, MUST, ALWAYS, NEVER, EACH, EVERY
What is Extreme Language?
100
A strategy you should use if the answer is too hard. This is a guess based on: context clues, process of elimination, circling buzz words, etc.
What is an educated guess?
100
Take a deep breath to relax.
What is you should do if you start to feel nervous?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Part of a story.
What is an excerpt?
200
Words that often appear in correct answers on the CST.
E.g., SOME, SOMETIMES, GENERALLY, USUALLY, FREQUENTLY
What is an "educated guess?"
200
Go to bed early.
What should I do the night before the CST test?
200
Chew gum during the test (if your teacher allows you).
What should you do during the test to relieve test anxiety?
200
A list of sources used when writing a research paper.
What is a bibliography?
200
Facts are based on evidence, and an opinion is based on someone's judgments, likes and interests.
What is the difference between "fact" and "opinion?"
300
Do not choose "All of the above."
What should I do if one of the statements on the CST is false?
300
Eat a healthy breakfast.
What I should do the mornings of the CST test.
300
Make sure that you have answered all the questions and that you have bubbled your answers correctly. Only change your answer if you misread or misinterpret the question because the first answer that you put is usually the correct one.
What should you do if you have time left when you are finished with the CST?
300
A story about someone's life.
What is a memoir?
300
When the narrator is the person telling the story. The author uses words like: I, me, myself.
What is first person point of view?
400
Do not choose "None of the above."
What should you do if you are certain one of the statements (answers) is "true?"
400
A strategy where you circle words in the question and then find the same words inn the passage.
What is a "buzz" or "key" word?
400
An expression that cannot be understood from the meaning of its separate words, but must be learned as a whole.
E.g., It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
400
The lesson or moral of a story.
What is theme?
400
Step-by-step order.
What does sequential mean?
500
Eliminating answers you know are NOT right.
What is "Process of Elimination?"
500
Keep this attitude throughout the whole test and try to stay relaxed.
What is a positive attitude?
500
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase meaning one kind of object of idea is used in place of another to suggest a similarity between them.
e.g. as in, "ship plows the sea."
What is a metaphor?
500
When the narrator tells a story using the words, "he, she, they, it, them, etc., and knows the thoughts of one person.
What is third person "limited" point of view?
500
When the narrator tells a story using the words "he, she, they, it, them, etc. and knows the thoughts inside all of the characters' minds.