Amby Duncan-Carr
Amby: Test Taking Skills
Are you looking to increase your test scores? Investigate the Amby site to explore a variety of resources to help you excel at test taking.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides and Strategies: Anticipating Test Content
This site gives information on how to find out what information is going to be on the test and how to prepare for it. Foreign language versions of this page are available from the English home site.
Other
Thomson Learning: Test Preparation
Resource to obtain necessary information about the GED, LSAT, SAT, ACT, CLEP, MCAT, and TOEFL. Contains descriptions of the tests, helpful test-taking tips, time limits, and sample questions with full explanations of correct answers....
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Test Skill Builders for Reading: Making Judgments [Pdf]
Standardized test practice for students in grades 5 and 6. Students read a practice passage and answer questions that require them to make judgments about such things as fact or opinion and the author's purpose. Answers to the practice...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Test Taking Strategies
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is for use while discussing test-taking strategies with students. There are several assessment questions to evaluate their understanding.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Lit: Study Skills and the Ap Exam: What You Should Know
This unit focuses on preparing for the AP Exam for AP Literature and Composition. It offers strategies for taking multiple choice questions, essay exams, and exam day. It also provides practice for the essay test using the poem "It's a...
Other
Kansas State Univ.: Stressed Out Over Studying Tests?
This site gives a very detailed summary of dealing with stress while studying and taking tests. Sections define the problems as well as the solutions - how we have gotten ourselves all stressed out; how does stress affect grades; what...
Other
Tennessee State University: The Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies:tips for Terrrific Test Taking
This site gives suggestions for taking good tests.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Building Reading Comprehension Through Think Alouds
The Think-Aloud method has be shown to improve information retention. The lesson plan contained within this site models for teachers how to model this strategy. There is a rubric included for assessment.
Other
University of Western Ontario: Sound Memory Strategies
This site, which is provided for by the University of Western Ontario, gives suggestions on how to use your memory to become more successful at taking tests.
Other
University of Western Ontario: Structuring Information
This site, which is provided for by the University of Western Ontario, gives information on how to organize what you learn to make it easier to take exams.
Other
New York State Education Department: Regency Exams: 6th Grade Language Arts
Links to past New York State English Language Arts Grade 6 tests for 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006. Links to a practice test are also available, and all links open in PDF format.
Quia
Quia: Canada: Rags to Riches Game C
Are you feeling lucky after having played "Rags to Riches Games A & B"? Then take the challenge and see if you can win another million dollars by answering skill testing questions about Canada's geography. You only have three hints....
SMART Technologies
Smart: Runners Reading Strategy
This file will help you teach your students the "RUNNERS" reading strategy. I am a music teacher but I developed this file to help tutor some students and increase their reading scores on the EOG. Under each shape is the reading...