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AVIDLY Speaking
MSA Facts
Strategies 1
Strategies 2
100
How many hours of sleep should you get the night before the test?
What is 8-10 hours
100
What tests must 12th graders pass to graduate?
Algebra I, Biology and English
100
True/False; The MSA is a timed test.
What is True.
100
True/False; You should always read the passage first and answer choices first.
What is False
100
This strategy has you plug in answer choices to see if you can come up with the correct answer.
What is Working Backwards.
200
Just like a car, I need gas in my tank so in order to get my started I need this.
Why I should eat breakfast the day of testing
200
True or False: I cannot practice for the MSA or HSA online.
What is false
200
The type of question that gives multiple choices for your answer.
What is the selected response question?
200
True or False: A best guess when unsure of the answer is a smart choice.
What is true.
200
This strategy has you round or approximate the answer.
What is Estimate
300
I should set my alarm clock for my normal time during testing.
What is true (unless you are usually tardy for the party).
300
March 13-14 and March 20-21
What are the dates for MSA?
300
Only one test per day.
What is how many tests I will take in a day?
300
Tricky Words do what to a question?
What is confuse or change the meaning.
300
This strategy helps you increase your chance of getting a right answer.
What is Eliminating Wrong Answers
400
Take deep breaths, roll my shoulders, relax my grip on my pencil.
What are ways to decrease anxiety/stress.
400
This object shoudl be at least 5 feet away from my head at night. I wouldn't want radioactive waves to enter my brain at rest.
What is any electronic device?
400
This measures student achievement of the state standards and provides information about teaching practices.
What is the MSA?
400
When you come up with an answer in your head first before you look back at the answer choices, it is your ____ response.
What is GUT.
400
True or False: I should read the questions before the reading passage
What is true
500
True or False: Drinking a lot of water is a great idea right before testing
What is false; you don't want to have to worry about "holding it"
500
True or False: If I am absent the day of testing, I will not be able to make it up
What is false. You should plan on being here!
500
Name the 3 subject areas on the MSA
What is approaching Math, Reading, Science?
500
Do not change your answers unless you have...
What is MISREAD or MISUNDERSTOOD what question was asking for.
500
This strategy has to do with sleep, eating healthy and exercise.
What is How to Feel Great.