How to use Test Taking Tips

Test taking tips... How do you improve your test scores? The answer is to develop and practice a good test taking strategy.

Follow these test taking tips to improve concentration and test scores. By mastering these steps, you are surely to succeed.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Know your test.
   Familiarize yourself with the directions and format of the test well ahead of time. Know the types of questions and the average time it takes to answer each type.

2. 

   Pace Yourself.
   Do not spend a tremendous amount of time on a particular question. You'll eat up the clock and fuel your test anxiety.

3. Practice to Gain Speed
   This is how to get to Carnegie Hall and relieve test anxiety. The more practice you get, the more comfortable you will get with the material and the faster you will go with accuracy.

4. 

   Keep Track of your Answer Sheet
   Always know where you are on your answer sheet. If you skipped a problem, you could easily record an answer to the wrong problem. This would be a disaster.

5. Don't Make Crazy Guesses
   The Golden Rule of Guessing is... if you can't narrow the choices down to two in a multiple choice situation, the odds are too high for a guess. Skip the problem then come back later to try again.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't give up on your test taking tips.
• Scan Answer Choices.
• Use Substitution.
• Do the math directly.
• Don't assume your answer is correct.
• Recognize 'Not Drawn to Scale' in questions.

Resources

• The Susan/Susan Recovery Project

[sallyemaycreate]

on 9/16/2009 Excellent tips not only for students but for everyone! Thanks for a great article... 5* & recommend

[ljstraight]

on 9/13/2009 Great ideas and tips! 5 stars

[ladylynn359]

on 9/4/2009 good advice

[rnhealthinfo]

on 9/3/2009 Good tips in How to use Test Taking Strategies and just the right time of year for it! 5*R

[chrisanimelo444]

on 8/20/2009 These will be useful for when college starts again. Great tips!