Test Taking Strategies
The BCR
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Key Dates
100
When you read a passage, you should have this in your hand in order to note important parts of the text.
What is a highlighter?
100
This sentence tells your reader what you are trying to prove in your BCR.
What is your topic/thesis sentence?
100
This is a scene in a story that occurred before the present time in the story.
What is a flashback?
100
This is a struggle between opposing forces or the problem in a story.
What is conflict?
100
What is the first day of DC CAS testing?
What is Tuesday, April 23rd?
200
When you see that you have come to a new reading passage with new questions, you should do this first.
What is read directions/preview the questions?
200
A BCR should have this many pieces of evidence from the text, at a minimum.
What is two?
200
This is language, usually in poetry, that portrays sensory experiences (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch).
What is imagery?
200
This is a situation where the opposite of what is expected to occur or exist does occur or exist.
What is irony?
200
On this day, you take your biology DC CAS.
What is Thursday, April 25th?
300
These are the words around a word that help you figure out what a word means.
What are context clues?
300
This type of question on the DC CAS is worth the most points.
What is a BCR?
300
This is the when and where of a story.
What is the setting?
300
This is anything that stands for or represents something else.
What is symbolism?
300
What test (include the parts) do you take on Wednesday, April 24th?
What is Reading, Parts 3 and 4?
400
You get to a question to which you do not know the right answer. What is one thing you can do to increase the chance you get the question correct?
What is eliminate the answers you know are wrong/ slash the trash?
400
This type of detail is taken directly from the text.
What is a concrete detail?
400
This is a story's main message or moral.
What is theme?
400
These are the events that happen in a story.
What is plot?
400
On this day, ninth grade students will go on college trips.
What is Monday, April 29th?
500
Imagine you hit a wall while you are testing. What is something you are allowed to ask the test proctor?
What is to use the restroom or get water if the proctor goes with you?
500
These sentences explain the evidence from the text, using what you know from your head. You should make an inference here if appropriate.
What are commentary sentences?
500
This is the author's attitude.
What is tone?
500
These are a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
500
You get this if you are on time for testing, in uniform.
What is a raffle ticket for a drawing for daily prizes?
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