Test Taking Strategies
You do this EVERY time you read a passage.
What are annotations?
This includes the most important part of the beginning, middle, and end of the passage.
What is a summary?
Joins two complete ideas together with a comma before it. *Hint* Don't forget to wipe your but.
What is a conjunction?
Tells the reader what your essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
Words in the answer choices are spelled differently. What should I do?
What is look up words in the dictionary?
The most important thing the author wants you to know.
What is the key idea?
This tells you why the author wrote a passage.
What is the author's purpose?
These words HATE being next to commas.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Grabs the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
Taking two sentences and putting them together with a coordinating conjunction and comma or semicolon is what?
What is combining sentences?
Eliminating answer choices you know are incorrect.
What is trash?
Your short constructed response needs all 3 of these elements.
What is the answer, the evidence, and the explanation?
You can combine two complete sentences together without a coordinating conjunction if you use this.
What is a semicolon?
This paragraph should not have a question in it.
What is the conclusion paragraph?
(1) Karin Cates reached her goal only after finding out in 1998 that she had multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. (2) Cates quit teaching at a local elementary school, where she had taught for twelve years, and now spends your days writing.
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2?
A. Make no change.
B. Change your to her.
C. Change elementary to elementery.
D. Change quit to quitted.
You use this to look up words you do not know.
What is the dictionary?
Reading two passages and comparing what is similar and different about them.
What is synthesizing?
FANBOYS are examples of this.
What is a conjunction?
This sentence tells the reader what the paragraph will be about.
What is a topic sentence?
(1) Choosing a college major can be difficult. (2) Many student's get concerned that they will have to pursue a career in their major their whole life. (3) However, a lot of people pursue jobs in fields different than their college degree. (4) Others start off in one field related to their major and then change their career later.
Which edit should be made to sentence 2?
A. Make "get concerned" "concerned."
B. Change the spelling of "pursue to "persue."
C. Remove the apostrophe from "student's."
D. Change "their" to "they're."
You should do this part of the exam first.
What is the essay?
Metaphors, personification, and alliteration are examples of.
What is figurative language?
AAWUUBISS is an example of this.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
You turn this into a question first, then answer it with your thesis statement.
What is the prompt?
(1) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, as head of the Department of Justice and chief law enforcement Officer, represents the United States in legal matters. (2) He also gives advice and opinions to the President of the United States and to the heads of the executive departments of the government when asked. (3) The Attorney General appears in person to represent the government before the U.S. Supreme Court in cases of great importance.
What change should be made to sentence 1?
A. Change Attorney General to attorney general.
B. Make no change.
C. Change Officer to officer.
D. Change United States to United states.