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Study for Your Quizzes & Tests!
To prepare for the exams, tests, and quizzes, review the following habits and skills.
Good Study Habits
- Use index/flashcards to study
- Study in a quiet comfortable place, eat and take breaks
- Rewrite topics you need to study and may not know as well as other topics
- Eliminate distractions: TV, cell phone, iPod, etc.
- Ask for help studying, study with a group of classmates, study often – don’t cram
- Test yourself
- Take good notes
- Review your notes daily
- Make a song with the study topics
- Use the SQ3R study method: Study/Question/Review/Read/Recite
Good Quiz/Test-Taking Skills
- Arrive to class ON TIME
- Read directions carefully (even if you think you know what to do)
- Look over the test completely before you start
- Underline keywords and phrases in the question, cross-out wrong choices, utilize the process of elimination and take an educated guess
- Answer the questions you know first, mark the questions you don’t know and go back to them
- Look back at other questions for clues to difficult questions
- Focus on your own paper and keep quiet during the test/quiz
- Be confident by being prepared (study, study, study)
- Have a strategy, for example: answer the questions worth the most first
- Write your answers legibly
- Check over your answers when finished