Multiple Choice
This is the first thing you should always read when you get to a reading passage and why.
What is the title because it tells you the main topic or central idea?
This is the number of paragraphs you need to get the full 4 points?
What is 2?
What is 3-5?
True or False: Once I finish, I can leave right away.
What is false? You cannot leave until 2 hours have passed (and you BETTER have read over your essays...)
True or False: Read all the passages in all the sections before starting to write.
This strategy helps you avoid trap wrong answers choices because you decide on the right answer before looking at the answer choices
What is predict before you peek?
These are the two pieces of information you need in the first paragraph?
What are central idea and writing strategy?
This is the minimum number of quotes you need to get the full six points?
What is 6?
This is the section you should spend the LEAST time on.
What is the Literary Analysis?
Name two kinds of trap wrong answers choices
What are opposite, part right/part wrong, wrong part of the passage, and extreme?
This is the number of quotes/pieces of evidence do you need in total to get full credit
What is two?
This is why parenthetical citations are better than just including the test number in your sentence.
What is they are visually obvious to show your scorer you used evidence?
These are three items you CAN have with you on test day.
What are water, pencils (but don't use them for essays), pens, erasers, and highlighters?
These two sections are worth the same number of points.
What are Multiple Choice and Literary Analysis?
These are the three types of reading passages in the multiple choice section
What are fiction, poetry, and non-fiction?
These are three writing strategies you could use in this section.
What are characterization, setting, dialogue, figurative language, conflict, point of view, etc.?
These are two important things to remember about using a counterclaim:
What are show it is not your position and refute it?
What is argument essay?
These two sections are most likely to have figurative language and why?
What are Multiple choice and literary analysis?
Some trap wrong answers use a detail from the wrong part of the passage so always:
A) predict before you peek
B) remember what you read
C) highlight
D) go back to the line referenced in the question
What is D?
A) Leave it blank
B) Pick a writing strategy and use quotes that demonstrate it, even without a central idea
C) Write a claim and nothing else
D) Cry
What is B?
Complete this sentence: "No matter how good your writing is, you can only get a 3 out of 6 if you:
What is cite fewer than three texts?
Lori decides to eat two donuts for breakfast. Explain why this is a good decision or not:
Good: Carbs and sugar for energy; she ate breakfast
Bad: It's sugar and will cause a slump mid-test
This number of sections require you to read at least one passage:
What is all three?