Test Taking Strategies

Taking a test can be more tricky than just knowing the material. Here are some strategies to help your child do his or her best.

Test Preparation Strategies

• Be well rested with eight hours of sleep
• Eat a good protein breakfast
• Practice vocabulary you need to understand test questions
• Review material learned over many short study periods
• Exercise and Drink water (the brain likes both!)
• Practice the multiple choice format all the time
• Ask questions in class if you don’t understand
• Review with study cards and study groups
• Every day work hard to learn what teachers work hard to teach you!
• Do your best to get along with everyone the morning of the test!

Test Taking Strategies

• Read each problem carefully and identify (circle/underline) important words
• Eliminate obvious wrong answers
• Answer the questions you know first, skip the more difficult, go back to those later
• Check your work
• Hear or read the direction carefully
• Stay calm-Know you will do well
• Take your time
• Are you bubbling in the right number?
• Read the question, then all the answers, then read the passage
• See or draw out word problems in math