Test-Taking Strategies
Eliminate obvious wrong answers so that you can make your choice between fewer options.
What is Narrow your choices?
Something that can be proven true.
What is a fact?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
To show how things are different.
What is (to) contrast?
A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
If the question asks something that can be found in the text, go back and look for each answer choice. The one that pops up and best answers the question is your answer.
What is Read back into the text for answers?
A brief, overall summary of what the entire text is about. Also called the main idea.
What is central idea?
The intended group of readers of a specific text.
What is audience?
To write or say the exact words of someone.
What is (to) quote?
slowly; carefully; quietly; happily
What are adverbs?
If you cannot figure out an answer, leave it and go on, because you may find the answer or clues to the answer in later questions.
What is Leave it, move on, and come back to it?
The body of facts that prove or disprove something.
What is evidence?
The message or lesson of the story.
What is theme?
Usually used to show how things are alike, but sometimes used to show how things are alike and different.
What is (to) compare?
To remember coordinating conjunctions, we use this acronym.
What is FANBOYS?
The best answer does not have words like “all”, “always”, “never”, or “everyone”.
What is Beware of words that are too broad or general?
Writing that presents facts without revealing the writer’s feelings and opinions.
What is objective writing?
An educated guess based on evidence in the text.
What is an inference?
To restate the main idea and most important details of a text to briefly tell what it is about.
What is (to) summarize?
The "N" in FANBOYS.
What is nor?
Every question counts. So, don’t get discouraged when you don’t know an answer, just remember the test-taking tips!
What is Don't give up?
To increase the reader's knowledge of a subject or help them better understand a procedure or process.
What is to inform/explain (author's purpose)?
The vantage point from which a story is told. It may be omniscient (all-knowing), third-person limited, or first-person (the narrator uses “I”) point of view.
What is point of view?
To combine (things) in order to make something new.
What is (to) synthesize?
When writing a compound sentence, we combine two simple sentences with a conjunction and this.
What is a comma?