Testing Strategies
Grammar Tools
Studying Strategies
Punctuation Tools
Wild Card
100

This testing strategy acronym helps you eliminate the incorrect answer choices to find the right answer choice.

What is POE?
100

This grammar tool makes your sentence sound complete and logical in sequence.

What is subject verb agreement?

100

This studying strategy requires a timer, a practice test, and a number two pencil or laptop to be successful.

What is a practice drill?

100

This form of punctuation introduces a series or introduces more information to a concise statement.

What is a colon?

100

This test gauges a student's general academic knowledge and was the original standardized high school test.

What is the SAT?

200

Skimming the reading passage first is one of these top five testing SAT strategies.

What is reading strategically?

200

On the SAT, this grammar tool complicates a sentence by having "for", "about", "with", and "of".

What is a prepositional clause?

200

This studying strategy requires a bed and no technology, and is super helpful the night before test-taking day.

What is sleep?

200

This punctuation tool is commonly known as an acronym meaning "For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So".

What is FANBOYS?

200

This test is now considered to be the most popular college entrance exam.

What is the ACT?

300

This testing strategy helps you figure out context over content in better understanding key points in passages.

What is read the questions first?

300

This grammar tool is one of three main types of transitional words, and you can find these words in scientific experiments.

What is cause and effect?

300

This studying strategy is best utilized the night before your test day AND requires you to put away technology.

What is avoiding screen time?

300

This punctuation tool sets off a non-essential clause.

What is a dash?

300

This mistake is the most common one made by students whilst taking the SAT.

What is misreading questions/passages?

400

This testing strategy helps you remember to answer all of the test questions no matter if you are right.

What is guess?

400

This grammar tool often shows up in SAT and ACT test passages to confuse the student with wordiness.

What is passive voice?

400

This studying strategy is a device that is helpful to memorize SAT or ACT vocabulary. 

What is pneumonic?

400

These punctuation tools cannot be mixed and matched.

What are dashes and commas?

400

This commonly made mistake can affect your SAT/ACT test score.

What is leaving answers blank?

500

This strategy will prevent you from having feelings or opinions about what you are reading in the ACT or SAT test passages.

What is finding and understanding evidence to support author's argument?

500

This grammar tool shows up as two things in a sentence that do not go together.

What are faulty comparisons?

500

This studying strategy helps you focus on easy questions first, then hard questions.

What is general knowledge?

500

This punctuation tool usually shows up alongside plural nouns.

What is an apostrophe?

500

Students often miss utilizing this useful opportunity whilst taking their SAT/ACT test.

What is marking up your test booklet (not the answer sheet)?

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