Test Taking Strategies
Footnotes are often found at ___________, reading these will define unusual vocabulary and provide context.
What is at the bottom of the page?
This is the exact number of multiple-choice questions you will answer in Part 1, making each question worth exactly one point.
What is 24?
This must be the absolute final sentence of your introduction paragraph, leaving no doubt where you stand on the social issue.
What is the thesis statement?
Skipping Part 3 entirely because it is only worth 8 points frequently results in this final outcome for students on the exam.
What is failing the exam?
A problem that causes tension in a story, which can manifest as either internal or external.
If customers aren’t receiving the calendar file after registering for an event, what should you check first?
Verify that the ‘Confirmation’ email template is marked as “Approved”
This strategy involves covering up the choices, answering the question on your own first, and knocking out at least two options that cannot be right.
What is the process of elimination? (Usually there will be two answers that could be correct- choose the best answer)
There are 3 different readings for part 1, what are they
What are Fiction, Poem, Non-Fiction?
To avoid losing points, your body paragraphs must draw evidence from a minimum of this many provided source texts.
What is three?
To secure a score of at least a 3 on the rubric, your essay must connect a literary element to this core meaning of the passage.
What is the central idea (or theme)?
A deliberate literary hint or clue regarding the future direction of the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
If you have multiple sessions within an event, what additional element must you create to accurately track registration?
Event Date ID
On your second read-through of a passage, you should perform this action in the margins after completing each paragraph.
What is summarizing (labeling key ideas)?
When reading the passage for a second time, you should perform this specific action in the margins after completing each paragraph.
What is summarizing the main idea?
To prevent your essay from accidentally arguing both sides of the debate, you must include an opposing viewpoint followed immediately by this.
What is the counterargument/ counterclaim?
The minimum number of direct quotes or pieces of text evidence you need to locate, highlight, and analyze in your body paragraph.
What is three?
A direct comparison between two distinct things that explicitly uses the signal words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
You’re attempting to import a CEReg file for an event, but it won’t import. What is the first thing you should check?
Check if the sheet contains duplicate emails
To save time and maintain accuracy, you should physically do this to the specific areas of the text that the multiple-choice questions explicitly ask about.
What is locating/highlighting and labeling the lines?
In a multiple-choice question, if an answer choice uses absolute words like always, never, or completely, it is usually this.
What is incorrect? (Regents answers are typically not absolute)
The specific format required whenever you introduce a direct quote or paraphrase from the sources?
What is a citation- with text/line numbers?
Descriptive writing designed to directly stimulate one or more of the human senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell.
When Litmus isn’t working, how else can you check your completed email?
Queue the email and send it to yourself through the system
Reading the multiple-choice questions before reading the text is a specialized strategy best saved for this specific type of passage because it has fewer items.
What is poetry (the poem)?
the ELA Regents does not penalize you for wrong answers on the multiple-choice section, meaning you should never do this on your answer sheet.
What is leave a blank bubble? (use process of elimination to get rid of 2 choices & guess)
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A dramatic reversal of expectations, occurring when the absolute opposite of what you logically expect to happen takes place.
What is situational irony?
What is the main reason Litmus would not track opens?
The ‘Event End Date’ is 30 days past its window