Before the Test
You should get a good night's _________ before the test.
What is sleep?
True or False. Test anxiety in normal.
What is True?
Your goal for the NJSLA is to do your __________.
What is best?
True/False. You should pick the first answer you see that seems right, even if you don't read them all.
What is false? You should read every answer before choosing one.
True/False. In an adaptive test, it's best to answer all of the questions, and then go back to check them when you have time at the end.
What is true? An ADAPTIVE test adapts to your answers. Make your best educated guess, and bookmark it so you know to check it later.
You should eat this the morning of the test.
What is a good breakfast?
This kind of thinking makes you more confident and feel better about your performance on the test.
What is positive thinking?
True/False. On the NJSLA, it is better to leave a question blank than guess an answer.
What is false? You get the same amount of points for an incorrect answer that you do for a blank one, so you should take your best guess since you may be right.
You should read and follow these so you understand what each section is asking you to do.
What are directions?
On both short-answer and essay questions, make sure you answer the ______ question, not just parts of it.
What is entire or whole? A good way to do this is to ask yourself what the question is asking for after you read it. Also try highlighting parts of the question with the highlighter tool.
These should be turned off and put away before the test.
What are cell phones?
This is one way to relieve stress that uses breathing.
What is deep breathing? (Count to 10 as you breath in and out to calm down)
NJSLA testing is in the month of _______.
What is May?
You should do this if you have extra time at the end of a section.
What is check over your answers? (This is easy to do by using the "review answers" tool at the end of each section.)
You should do this the day of testing because you don't know if the room will be hot or cold.
What is wear layers or bring a sweater?
Coming to school ______ will help you to not feel rushed before the test.
What is early or on time?
Paying attention in class and ___________ helps relieve test anxiety.
What is studying?
What two subjects are on the NjSLA?
What is ELA and Math?
If you do not know the answer to a question make your best ______.
What is guess? Then flag it, and check it later.
When completing essay writing responses make sure you have a central idea and support it with ______.
What is evidence or details?
You should do this before you take the test or on test breaks since you will not be able to during testing.
What is use the bathroom?
A good way to prepare for the NJSLA is to take this at home or in class to see what the questions will be like on test day.
What is a practice test?
Use this tool to help narrow down the answers to a multiple choice question.
What is the answer eliminator, or strikethrough.
True/False. You should read the questions before reading the passage.
What is true? You should read the questions so you know what to look for in the passage. Also make sure you scroll down to ensure you have read the entire passage and answered all the questions!
True or False. An adaptive test adapts to the questions you have already answered.
True. The test can only adapt to your answers if you actually answer the questions. Do not leave any questions unanswered. Flag the question to check it later if you are not sure you answered it correctly.