Before the big day...
RELAX
Reading and Writing
Math
CEIEIO
100
How many hours of sleep should you try to get?
8 hours or more.
100
How many times will you probably read the passage before answering a question about it?
At least twice.  After you read the passage, you will want to go back and reread it to find the answers to the questions and to support your answer/cite text evidence.
100
What should you use the highlighter tool for?
Highlighting where you found your answer.

To mark something important you will write about later.

100
Before you look at the choices in multiple choice, what should you do first?
Solve the problem, and then find the answer you found.
100
What should you change the prompt or question to when you start writing your answer?
A topic sentence.
200
Give an example of a healthy breakfast.
Anything that includes nutritious food and will fill you up!
200
What should you do if the correct answer is the first one you read?
Read them all anyways to make sure that it is the BEST ANSWER and you can eliminate the others as possibilities.
200
What's more important, answering every question or getting as many as you can correct?
Getting them correct!
200
Do you need to show or explain your work in the extended response?
YES!!!!!!
200
Am I allowed to write word-for-word what the passage says?
Yes, as long as you put quotation marks around it, and start your sentence with...


"In the passage, it said..."

300
What kinds of clothes should you wear on the days you are testing?
Comfortable clothes with layers in case you get too hot or too cold.
300
What do you need to add to the answers for word problems?
A label.
300
What can you use your scratch paper for during the ELA section (Reading and Writing)?
Taking Notes

Planning Out Your Writing

300
What is the only calculator you can use on the test?
The one that's in the online tools.
300
How many pieces of evidence should I have in my writing?
As many as the question asks for, but AT LEAST ONE OR MORE from each passage or video you read/saw.
400
Whats more important?  Getting the best score in the school or doing better than you did last year?
Making growth, doing better than you did last year.
400
If you get done early with the test, what should you do?  Read A Book, Hit Submit, or Look Over Your Answers and Check Your Work
Look over your answers and check your work.


P.S.  You can't even bring a book into the testing room!

400
Whats more important in your writing?  Spelling or Good Ideas?
Good Ideas!
400
What is the scratch paper for in the Math test? 
Working out problems with numbers, words, and shapes and to help you explain your extended response.
400
What does the I mean in CEIEIO?
Infer--Tell the reader what you think the evidence means.
500
What should you NOT DO before the test?
Stress out!!
500
What is the answer eliminator tool used for?
To X-out answers that are not correct based on your rereading of the passage, or ones that do not make sense with the passage you just read.
500
What are the three kinds of writing?
Narrative-Story

Expository-Information

Persuasive- Convince


500
Why should you check your work when using a calculator?
You could mistype and then the answer would be wrong.
500
What should all conclusion sentences begin with?
A conclusion signal word.