multiple choice strategies
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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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multiple choice strategies
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Whatever you do, DON’T
look at the possible answers.
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Whatever you do, DON’T
leave a question blank.
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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.)
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Count onVariety: fiction, nonfictionletterspeechessayplayScience journalsNovel excerpts“primary source documents”poetry
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Count on
diversityagedifficultyideasgenre
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There are not 54 questions on the test.
There are just a few types of questions:
inferencepurposecontexttonerhetorical term
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inference
high volume question
“intelligence”
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purpose questions
function
Why is this here?What should go here?evidenceaudiencestructure
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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.
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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)
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They want you to feel stupid.
You can’t know every word.contextetymologyWords come from somewhere.
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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...
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exam vocabularyquestion stemkeydistracters2013 Corvette
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a Corvette can have characteristics
longweird wordrecapitulation of a words or phrases
from the passagefacthalf right