significance of Italics in long reading comprehension passages
What is: gives you important information about the author, setting, and type of passage
100
2 things grid-in answers can NOT be
What is:
1. More than 4 numbers
2. Negative numbers
3. Answers with variables
4. Answers with commas
5. Mixed numbers
6. Fractions with more than 3 digits
100
main type of writing section question studied in class
What is identifying sentence errors
100
Name the best strategy to use for the below question:
When Joe made the finals, he was so ______ that he was jumping for joy.
A. quizzical
B. crestfallen
C. ambivalent
D. excited
E. perplexed
What is the sentence completion 4 step method
200
range of scores you can get on the test
What is 20-80
200
What you should create for organizing a reading comprehension passage
What is a passage map
200
3 step method for attacking the math section
What is:
1. Read through the question
2. Decide whether to do it now or later
3. Look for the fastest way to answer the question
200
This tells you in what time frame the action is taking place.
What is the verb’s tense
200
Best strategy to use for the question below:
A jeweler uses 3/8 of a 6-foot chain to make accessories. If each accessory is 3 inches long, how man accessories can the jeweler make?
A. 3
B. 6
C. 8
D. 9
E. 12
What is backsolving
300
What the top 5 percent will qualify for in their Junior year
What are merit scholarships
300
2 ways that you can help yourself with difficult vocabulary on the PSAT
What is:
1. Trust your hunches
2. Recall where you have heard the word before
3. Break it down
4. Think positive/negative
300
Best strategy to use for geometry (specifically questions with shapes)
What is eyeballing
300
These 2 parts of a sentence must agree in number and in person
What are subject and verb
300
Name the type of error:
If one is interested in learning even more about Zora Neale Hurston, you should read Robert Hemenway's biography
What is pronoun error
400
Number of points you will lose when you get a question wrong
What is .25
400
Sentence completion 4 step method
What is:
1. Read the sentence for clues
2. Predict an answer
3. Scan the answer choices for a match
4. Read your selected answer choice back into the sentence
400
Best strategy to use with word problems with unknown values or variables
What is picking numbers
400
These must agree with their antecedents in case and number
What are pronouns
400
Best strategy to use for the below question:
If j is odd and k is even, which of the following must be even?
A. j+k
B. j+2k
C. j-k
D. jk/2
E. jk
What is picking numbers
500
the process you should use when making an educated guess on the test
What is the process of elimination
500
3 steps to reading strategically
What are:
1. Read through passage once
2. Attack answer choices returning to the passage later to answer specific questions
3. Choose best response
500
Best strategy to use when there are numbers in the answers
What is backsolving
500
Groups require this type of noun
What is singular
500
best strategy to use for a long reading comprehension passage
What is
1. Reading strategically
2. Making a passage map