Testy Testing Techniques
The most common testing technique. It involves removing wrong answers until only the correct one remains.
What is Process of Elimination?
The type of essay that involves writing 4-5 paragraphs based on a prompt.
What is both?
The presence of two potentially correct answer, but only one is truly correct.
What is good answer, best answer?
The type of reading that involves shorter lines organized into stanzas.
What is a poem?
Mr. Burgos's favorite movie franchise, often used as an example for various concepts in class.
What is the Godzilla franchise?
The easiest way to examine answers in any question about two paired passages.
What is a T-Chart?
An essay type usually used to explain a topic to the audience.
What is informative?
A type of question that asks about a specific section of the text.
What is a targeted question?
Reading that involves characters mostly talking to one another with actions written out in brackets and italics, organized into lines.
What is a drama?
Mr. Burgos's alma maters (both high school and college).
What are Clements High School and Texas A&M University?
If you are taking too long to answer a question, this rule lets you know when to move on.
What is the 60-Second Rule?
A type of essay that requires countering another person's potential thought-process.
What is argumentative?
A question that has to be answered using 2-3 sentences.
What is a Short Constructed Response?
A story that involves characters performing actions with a beginning, middle, and end.
What is a narrative?
Mr. Burgos's side-hustle that he does at a semi-professional level.
What is voice acting?
The one answer choice that is wrong 99% of the time.
What is none of the above?
An essay that has to have a title.
What is neither?
A new question type that has at least two correct answers that must be chosen.
What is a multi-select question?
A type of reading that explains or gives information on a specific, usually scientific concept.
What is informative reading?
Mr. Burgos's name for the music that we listen to while working in class.
What is "mood-music"?
The absolute last ditch when there seems to be no way at all to find the right answer to a question.
What is guessing?
A writing that utilizes evidence that utilizes detail to explain a point of view.
What is argumentative?
The more colloquial term for a question that is so easy, the answer is basically given to you.
What is a "gimme" question?
A story about a person's past written by that person (not an autobiography).
What is a memoir?
What tie does Mr. Burgos wear every Monday?
What is Mr. Burgos's music tie.