Are You Ready
PSSA Part I
PSSA Part II
Strategies 1
Strategies 2
100
How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?
What is 8-10 hours
100
What two subject areas that the PSSA tests right now?
Reading and Math
100
True/False; The PSSA is a timed test.
What is False?
100
True/False; You should always read the passage first and answer choices second.
What is False
100
This strategy has you plug in answer choices to see if you can come up with the correct answer.
What is Working Backwards.
200
To help me think better.
Why I should eat breakfast the day of testing
200
True or False: The PSSA stands for the Pennsylvania State System of Assessment.
What is true
200
Science and Writing
What are the other two subject areas of the PSSA?
200
True or False: Take your best guess when unsure of the answer is a smart choice.
What is true.
200
This strategy has you round or approximate the answer.
What is Estimate
300
I should set my alarm clock for my normal time during testing.
What is true (unless you are usually tardy).
300
Six
How many sections does the PSSA have?
300

One test per day.

What is how many tests I will take in a day?

300
Tricky Words do what to a question?
What is confuse or change the meaning.
300
This strategy helps you increase your chance of getting a right answer.
What is Eliminating Wrong Answers
400
Take deep breaths, roll my shoulders, relax my grip on my pencil.
What are ways to decrease anxiety/stress.
400
True or False: If I do not know an answer, I should leave it blank.
What is false?
400
This measures student achievement of the state standards.
What is the PSSA?
400
Take your time with these type of questions and write all you can for the response.
What are open-ended questions?
400
True or False: I should read the questions before the reading passage
What is true
500
True or False: Drinking a lot of water is a great idea right before testing
What is false; you don't want to have to worry about going to the bathroom.
500
True or False: If I am absent the day of testing, I will not be able to make it up
What is false. You should plan on being here!
500
All students in grades 3-8 in the state of Pennsylvania.
Who takes the PSSA?
500
Do not change your answers unless you have...
What is MISREAD or MISUNDERSTOOD what question was asking for.
500
This strategy has to do with sleep, eating healthy and exercise.
What is How to Feel Great.
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