multiple choice strategies
multiple choice strategies
Whatever you do, DON’T
look at the possible answers.
Whatever you do, DON’T
leave a question blank.
This is a “high stakes” reading test
Don’t skim.
Don’t look at the questions first.
Don’t blindly guess (unless it's a time thing.)
Count on
Variety: fiction, nonfictionletterspeechessayplayScience journalsNovel excerpts“primary source documents”poetry
Count on
diversityagedifficultyideasgenre
There are not 54 questions on the test.
There are just a few types of questions:
inferencepurposecontexttonerhetorical term
inference
high volume question
“intelligence”
purpose questions
function
Why is this here?What should go here?evidenceaudiencestructure
context questions
high volume question
The answers to context questions are often “8 lines” above or “8 lines” below.
The answer to a context question is rarely the “common” definition.
rhetorical term questions
The correct answer is never the weird rhetorical term.
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There might not be a right answer.
There might be a best answer. (key)
They want you to feel stupid.
You can’t know every word.contextetymologyWords come from somewhere.
a pattern to consider
The test usually begins by asking a question(s) about the whole passage and then moves through the passage in a linear pattern.
And so therefore...
exam vocabulary
question stemkeydistracters2013 Corvette
a Corvette can have characteristics
longweird wordrecapitulation of a words or phrases
from the passagefacthalf right