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EOG Testing Tips

Testing Strategies for Reading:

• STAR Test Taking

• Don’t Go Telling Cheesy Jokes

• Skim before reading

• Stamina-read on if it seems too hard, focus on the parts you understand

• Difficult Words-use synonyms that best fits

• Difficult Names and Places-create a nickname for the character or location.

Testing Strategies for Math:

• Cubes/4-Step Problem Solving

General Test Taking Tips:

• Use Process of Elimination

• Choose the best answer

• Manage your time wisely

We have discussed these strategies in the classroom.  Ask your child about them or review the testing bookmark and information in their homework folder. You can also visit the class website for more details.

Make sure your child is practicing these  strategies as they complete the reading and math worksheets for homework.

Types of Test Takers

Discuss the different types with your child.  Go over strategies that will help them be successful.

Over-Analyzer

Goal:  Make a decision and keep working

Strategy: Say to yourself, “What would most people choose?”

Auto-Pilot

Goal:  Stay focused

Strategy: Take mini-actions as you read the passages, questions, and answer choices.

Mini-Actions: circle, underline, jot, chunk

Over Confident

Goal:  Go back and check over your work

Strategy: After answering all of the questions in the passage-rate them: 1-easy, 2-kind of hard, 3-really hard.  Then, check your 1s and 2s.

Guess and Go

Goal:  Guess LESS and Go!

Strategy: Say to yourself, “I know the answer is not ____ because…”