Ace Your Tests: Strategic Guide for Student Success with Minimal Stress
Enhance your test preparation strategies with tools like notes, past quizzes, and study guides. Learn how to effectively take notes, review past assignments, and create your own study guides to excel in your academics with less stress.
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Liberty 101 A student s guide to success with less stress. Test Preparation Strategies
Test Preparation If you fail to prepare, you must be prepared to fail Benjamin Franklin You have the following resources at your fingertips: Notes Past quizzes, homework Test Study Guides Textbook 9thhour Extra Help Computer resources like Quizlet, VHL Central for French and Spanish, Mr. Mayer s wiki, Online textbooks Friends
Notes Take notes in class. If the teacher is taking time to present the info to you, it is important. Highlight your notes when studying. Especially watching for vocab words, important dates, events, people, theories, etc. Re-write your notes in outline or 2-column format. Read your notes every couple of days, not just right before the test.
Past quizzes, classwork, etc. Keep all returned, graded quizzes and class assignments. 1 week before the test, re-take the quizzes. Read over the bellwork questions, class work any thing in addition to the notes. Re-work problems, especially any you missed.
Test Study Guides If teacher provides a study guide, begin working on it right away. Commit to completing a few questions each night. If test topics are given, begin making your own study guide right away. If test topics are not given, seek out the teacher during 9thhour help session and receive clarification for what topics will be covered on the test.
Test Study Guides Develop your own test questions; anticipate what the teacher may ask on test. If you begin work on the study guide right away, you will have time to get help and have questions answered during 9th hour help sessions.
Textbook If there is a textbook or reading material for the class, take time to re-read the appropriate chapters and/or handouts. Outline the chapters, paying close attention to bold print words, themes, events, key ideas, etc.
Textbook If there are section questions, read and answer the questions. Re-work questions or problems in the chapter. If there is a Chapter Assessment at the end of the chapter, go ahead and complete it.
9thHour Help For the 2 weeks prior to the test, make a schedule for attending the teacher s 9thHour Extra Help sessions. Go prepared with specific questions to ask the teacher. For example: What are the topics to be tested? What chapters in the book will be covered? What format is the test? MC/Essay/Short Answers, etc. What percentage of the test will be from the reading, from notes?
Computer Resources Check Quizlet for vocab terms. http://quizlet.com/ Sadlier-Oxford Vocab for Lit classes Foreign Languages (French, Spanish, Latin) US History AP US History Biology Chemistry Foreign Language Site: https://www.vhlcentral.com/ Username: lchstudent Password: eagles1
On-Line Textbooks Finding the on-line textbook will provide more resources for you, such as self-assessments. These are helpful practice and review questions. Example: Prentice-Hall Chemistry http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?wcprefix=cd k&wcsuffix=0000&area=view Prentice-Hall Biology: http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?wcprefix=cbk &wcsuffix=9999&area=view
Friends Get together with classmates for study sessions Ask your friends who do well on tests about what strategies work for them. Compare notes maybe you missed something from a lecture.
