Testing, Testing,
1-2-3
Gimme a 1
Gimme a 2
Quick Thinking
Flawed Thinking
100

When students will write their papers

What is Monday and Friday? or What is April 27 and May 1?

100

The focus of Paper 1

What is Problem Solving?

100

The focus of Paper 2

What is Critical Reasoning?

100

The maximum point value for Paper 2, Question 1(a), and # of marks needed to earn it

What is 2 points for 3 marks?

100
Students in private schools earn higher ACT scores, so magnet schools must be good schools.

What is causal flaw?

200

What students must write in

What is a blue or black pen?

200
The approximate number of items on Paper 1

What is 12-13?

200

The exact number of items on Paper 2

What is 5?

200

What Paper 2, Question 3(a) asks students to identify

What is the main conclusion?

200

If you read the newspaper, you are well-informed. Sara is well-informed, so she reads the newspaper.

What is invalid deduction (affirming the consequent)?

300

The amount of time provided to write Paper 1

What is 90 minutes? or What is an hour and a half?

300

Three common strategies to use on Paper 1

What are draw a diagram, make a systematic list, and do the math?

300

The two problems with the highest point value

What are #2 and #5?

300

The acronym to help students assess the reliability of a source and what each of the letters stands for

What is RAVEN -- reputation, ability to see, vested interest, expertise, and neutrality/bias?

300

If we allow our 14-year-old to have her first date tonight, what's next? A wedding, kids?

What is slippery slope?

400

The amount of time provided to write Paper 2

What is 135 minutes? or What is one hour and fourty-five minutes?

400

How the solution should be indicated for each item

What is circle it?

400

How responses should be indicated in response booklet

What is label them?

400
The response in which students should NOT state the claim as an opinion

What is #5?

400

President Trump doesn't have middle-class Americans in mind. He's part of the upper echelon of America.

What is straw man?

500

The minimum number of points typically needed to earn an E on Paper 2

What is 15 or 16?

500

How solutions in time format should be written

What is military time?

500

What a student can do in lieu of erasing an answer

What is cross through it with a single line?

500

The phrase used to indicate that students should quote the passage

What is "Using the exact words from the passage as far as possible"?

500

Amelia Earhart disappeared while flying a plan over the Pacific Ocean, so women shouldn't be pilots.

What is hasty/rash generalization?