Strategies
Understanding how to read the different charts and graphs.
What is Understanding Charts and Tables?
When a graph doesn’t have exact measurements, you will not need to differentiate between two close points.
What is When Vagueness is Clear?
Answers that are exact with no wiggle room are often times wrong.
What is Avoiding Definites?
Questions are not meant to be trick questions and you should not overthink.
What is Using Common Sense?
Go with your first instinct.
What is Instincts are Right?
Making notes will help you understand the data and keep track of the answer choices.
What is making notes?
Do not try to understand every detail. Read the passages for an overall general understanding.
What is no fear?
Look out for any differences that occur between experiments.
What is looking for changes?
Look at the graph and determine the correct answer and make sure the answer is available.
What are Quick Checks?
The main goal is to get a general understanding of what each experiment was about.
What is Making Summaries?
The most popular variables are usually the correct answer.
What is Looking for Matches?
This strategy wants the student to question the professional that conducted the experiment. Usually agreeing with the professional.
What are Professional Experiments?
Scan over the passage multiple times to gain all the information that is provided.
What is Information is Provided for a Reason?
When the tests makes the answer choice sound different and more sophisticated while meaning the same thing.
What is watching for Similar Rewording?
Students should stay focused on what information is actually valuable in the question or answers.
What is Don’t Get Thrown Off by New Information?
Scanning the passage to look for important words.
What is Looking for Key Words?
Eliminating answer choices that are wrong or irrelevant.
What is Narrowing the Search?
When a question gives 4 answer choices and 2 of the choices will be the exact opposite of each other.
What is What About the Opposite?
Read the data, passage, graph or chart to find the answer. This will allow the student to understand the question without any previous knowledge.
What is You’re not Expected to be Einstein?
Identify the key point that the question is asking.
What is Identifying the Key Component?
Determine all of the components the question usually on questions that are asking for more than one thing.
What is Fulfilling all the Requirements?
If you think the correct answer isn’t there, choose the closest answer the one that you think it should be.
What is Checking It Systematically?