Test-Taking Skills
Prepping for MCAS
More Test-Taking Thangs
100
TRUE OR FALSE: If you're stuck on a question, you can skip it and go back to it later?
True
100
What should you do the night BEFORE the MCAS?
Get 8 hours of sleep
100
What type of words should be capitalized?
Proper nouns, I, and the beginnings of sentences.
200
How can you increase your chances that you will get the right answer, even if you're not completely sure of it?
Eliminate answers you know are wrong!
200
What should you do the morning of the MCAS?
Eat a good breakfast
200
Which words should you highlight/underline in the question?
Words that are bold or in italics
300
Before typing your responses into the response box on the MCAS, what should you always - ALWAYS - do first?
Write a rough draft on paper or graphic organizer (if allowed).
300
What kind of attitude should you have going into the MCAS?
A positive attitude
#SpongebobSaysImReady
300
For writing responses, when you think you have finished, what should you do before you submit them?
Reread, revise, and edit
400
What should you do while reading important information in the text?
Highlight it
400
What's one way you can remember the strategies you learned today?
(various answers)
400
What should you put around textual evidence to show that it's the author's words and not yours.
Quotation marks
500
You should never answer a multiple choice question without doing what first?
Going back and rereading the text!
500
What should you bring with you to the MCAS room?
DEAR book and pecils...duh
500
When reading a poem, what 2 things should you write on scratch paper?
1) The setting
2) The character's feelings