Download like they are extroverts

THE KEYS FOR SUCCESS
KNOW THE TEST
 Be familiar with
the types of
questions and the
directions for
each section of
the test—this will
help you save
time on the test
WHAT’S ON THE TEST
 There are 10 sections on the
test—3 hours 45 minutes
 3 math sections
 3 critical reading
 3 writing skills section
 1 section that is a “variable”
section –math, critical
reading or writing multiple
choice—does not count
SCORING OF THE TEST
 You gain a point for
each correctly answered
question
 You lose a fourth of a
point for each incorrect
multiple choice answer
 You are not penalized
for omitted answers—if
you have no clue it is
best to skip it
EXAMPLE OF SCORING
 30 out of 39 questions were answered
 22 were correct for 22 points
 8 were incorrect 8 divided by 4 is 2
which is the number of points lost
 22 – 2 = 20. This number is then used
with a scoring table to get a score for
that section
GUESSING OR SKIPPING
 Guess if you can
narrow the answer
down to two choices
 Skip if you have no
clue and can not
eliminate any choices
 Remember you aren’t
penalized for skipped
answers
YOUR GOAL
Answer as many
as you can in the
time allotted. If
you finish early go
back and look at
the ones you
skipped
DAY OF TESTING
 Be well rested and ready to go
 Eat a good breakfast
 Bring a photo id and your test
admission ticket
 Bring number 2 pencils with good
erasers
 Bring a calculator that works and that
you are familiar with
DAY OF CONTINUED
 Bring a healthy snack—there will be a
break each hour and a healthy snack
can keep you energized and focused
 Arrive early to allow yourself time to
get checked in and settled before
testing begins…testing should be
complete around 12:30-1:00
General Strategies For All Sections
 Answer easy questions first
 Make educated guess IF you can eliminate
some choices
 Skip questions you can’t answer
 Limit your time on each question—don’t
dwell too long on a single question—keep
moving
 Keep track of the time—wear a watch
More General Strategies
 Use your test booklet as scratch
paper….mark it up, cross out things,
underline things….
 Check your answer sheet to make sure you
are answering the right question—
especially if you start skipping
 Use No. 2 pencils---no mechanical pencils
or pens…erase completely if you change
your answer.
ESSAY
 The test will begin with a 25 minute
essay.
 Be sure to read the essay topic
completely
 Essay section measures your ability to
organize and express ideas, develop
and support main idea, and use
appropriate word choice
Scoring of Essay
 Score of 2 to 12
 0 score if the essay
is blank, illegible,
written in ink or
completely off
topic
WRITING SECTION
 49 MULTIPLE CHOICE
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QUESTIONS
ONE 25 MINUTE, 10
TEN MINUTE SECTION
25 IMPROVING THE
SENTENCE
18 IDENTIFYING THE
ERROR
6 IMPROVING THE
PARAGRAPH
IDENTIFYING THE ERROR
 EASIEST SECTION
 CHOICE “E” IS
ALWAYS “NO ERROR”
 ONLY 1 OUT OF 5
TIMES IS THE
ANSWER “NO ERROR”
 MOVE QUICKLY IN
THIS SECTION
 YOU ONLY HAVE TO
IDENTIFY WHERE THE
ERROR OCCURS
EXAMPLE IDENTFY ERROR
The results of many agricultural experiments
A
has emphasized the necessity of controlling
B
C
weeds during the entire course of crop
D
cultivation. No error
E
THE ANSWER
B—HAS EMPHASIZED
SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT
IMPROVING THE SENTENCE
 CHOICE “A” IS THE SAME AS THE
ORIGINAL SENTENCE—ONLY 1 OUT
OF 5 TIMES
 1/3 OF THE ERRORS ARE COMMA,
SEMICOLON OR CONJUNCTION
ERRORS
 SUBSTITUTE THE ANSWER CHOICES
FOR THE UNDERLINED PART—ONLY
THE UNDERLINED PART WILL
CHANGE
IMPROVING SENTENCE
EXAMPLE
 Neither Francis nor her sister appears like
they are extroverts.
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
like they are extroverts
to be extroverts
to be an extrovert
like extroverts
like an extrovert
THE ANSWER
 C) TO BE AN
EXTROVERT
 SUBJECT IS
SINGULAR DUE TO
THE
NEITHER…NOR
COMMOM ERRORS
 PARALLEL STRUCTURE—VERBS ALL END
THE SAME
– HE LIKES TO WALK, RUN AND CYCLING.
• HE LIKES TO WALK, RUN AND CYCLE.
 CONFUSED WORDS—
– THERE(LOCATION), THEIR(POSSESSION),
THEY’RE(CONTRACTION OF THEY ARE)
– WHICH (OBJECTS ONLY), THAT (PEOPLE OR
OBJECTS), WHO (PEOPLE ONLY)
– IT’S (IT IS), ITS (POSSESSION)
– WHO’S (WHO IS), WHOSE (POSSESSION)
OTHER COMMON ERRORS
 SUBJECT/VERB
 PRONOUN/NOUN
AGREEMENT
 RUN-ON
SENTENCES
– MUST USE
COMMA AND
CONJUCTION TO
CORRECTLY
JOIN TWO
SENTENCES OR
USE A
SEMICOLON
AGREEMENT
 SHIFT IN PRONOUN
 SENTENCE
FRAGMENTS
 SHIFT IN TENSE
 IMPROPER
MODIFICATION
IMPROVING THE
PARAGRAPH
 SIX QUESTIONS ON
IMPROVING THE
PARAGRAPH
 CHOOSE THE BEST
WAY TO FIX THE
SENTENCE.
CRITICAL READING
 3 SECTIONS
 2 SECTIONS 25 MINUTES LONG
 1 SECTION 20 MINUTES LONG
 19 SENTENCE COMPLETION QUESTIONS
 48 PASSAGE-BASED READING QUESTIONS
 LONG AND SHORT PASSAGES (100-850
WORDS)
Word Roots to the Rescue!
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omni=all
morph=shape
Anthropo/anthro=man
mis, mal=bad
anti, contra=against
cise, tomy=cut
logy=science
bio, viv, vita= life
ver=true
cred=believe
circum=around
spec=look
leg—read
pac—peace
philo—love
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un, im, in, non, ir= not
bell=war
ante, pre, a (prefix)=before
post=after
cede,ceed=go
super, hyper=over
sub, hypo=under
bi—two, tri—three
quad/tetra—four
equi—equal
lat—side
ist—one who
fract—break
hemo, hemi, sangui--blood
SENTENCE COMPLETION
 COVER UP THE
 PUNCTATION
ANSWER CHOICES
AND READ THE
SENTENCE
CAREFULLY
 THINK OF A WORD
THAT WOULD FIT
IN THE BLANK
 EXAMINE
CHOICES,
ELIMINATE AND
SELECT
MARKS SUCH AS
COMMAS,
HYPHENS,
SEMICOLONS
USUALLY
INDICATE A CLUE
IS NEARBY
 QUESTIONS ARE
ARRANGED
EASIEST TO
HARDEST
GUESSING ON SENTENCE
COMPLETION QUESTIONS
 GUESS ON THE
LAST ONE IN
THE SECTION—
CHOOSE THE
MOST UNUSUAL
WORD IN THE
CHOICES
DOUBLE BLANKS
 SOME SENTENCES
WILL CONTAIN
TWO BLANKS
 WORK WITH ONE
PART OF THE
SENTENCE AND
ONE BLANK AT A
TIME
 TRY TO DECIDE IF
THE SENTENCE
SHOWS CONTRAST
OR SIMILARITY
SENTENCE COMPLETION
SAMPLE—EASY
 Some animals are capable of forming
emotional attachments to other animals,
sometimes even of behaving ______ toward
each other.
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A)informally
B)lovingly
C)properly
D)strangely
E)indiscriminately
THE ANSWER…
The answer—B—LOVINGLY
 In this sentence “forming
emotional attachments” is a
clue.
MEDIUM DIFFICULTY
While serving as surgeon general during the early
1990’s Antonia C. Novello endeavored to
discourage teen smoking by _________ prior
demands that the tobacco industry _________
advertising directed at young people.
A. rejecting…prohibit
B. reiterating…curtail
C. limiting…revoke
D. renewing…sustain
E. investigating…increase
THE ANSWER
B. reiterating…curtail
DIFFICULT EXAMPLE
 The marine biologist found a shell
fragment on the beach and identified it as
part of the ______, the bony outer
covering, of an Atlantic green crab.
A) antennae B) aperture C) cavity
D) carapace
E) viscera
THE ANSWER
D)
CARAPACE
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
Hoping to ______ the dispute, negotiators
proposed a compromise that they felt would
be _____ to both labor and management.
A) enforce…useful
B) end…divisive
C) overcome…unattractive
D) extend…satisfactory
E) resolve…acceptable
THE ANSWER
E) resolve…accectable
PASSAGE-BASED QUESTIONS
 READ THE TAG AT THE BEGINNING OF
THE PASSAGE—ITALICIZED
INFORMATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
PASSAGE
 READ THE QUESTIONS—BEFORE READING
PASSAGE
 ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT ASK ABOUT
WORD MEANING
 ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT CONTAIN LINE
NUMBER REFERENCES
MATH QUESTIONS
 3 SECTIONS
 2 SECTIONS THAT ARE
25 MINUTES LONG
 1 SECTION 10
MINUTES LONG
 44 MULTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTIONS
 10 STUDENTPRODUCED GRID IN
QUESTIONS
MATH TERMS
 INTEGERS
 ANGLES
 CONSECUTIVE
 PYTHAGOREAN
 ODD/EVEN
THEOREM
 SLOPE
 AREA/PERIMETER
 VOLUME
 MEAN, MEDIAN,
MODE
 PROBABILITY
 PRIME
 PERCENT
 FACTORING
 EXPONENTS/ROOT
 PARALLEL LINES
Terms
 Consecutive--following in a sequence
 Integer--negative and positive numbers (...-2, -1,
0, 1, 2...)
 Prime numbers--2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13...numbers that
are only divisible by 1 and that number (remember
1 is not prime or composite)
 Percent formula= percent = is
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100
of
 mean--the average
 median--the middle number when numbers are
written in order
 mode--the most frequent number in a list
STRATEGIES FOR MATH MC
 READ QUESTIONS CAREFULLY
 USE THE ANSWERS TO HELP YOU SOLVE
UNFAMILIAR PROBLEMS—ALWAYS
START WITH CHOICE “C” & SUBSTITUTE
INTO THE PROBLEM
 SUBSTITUTE REAL NUMBERS—BUT KEEP
IT SIMPLE—USE SMALL NUMBERS THAT
SATISFY THE QUESTION RESTRICTIONS
 HAVE A CALCULATOR
Multiple Choice
Multiple Choice Answer
 Answer: A
Multiple Choice
 3x +5y = 4z
y=4
 If x, y, and z satisfy the equations above and if 4z
= 20, what is the value of x?
 A. 0
 B. 3
 C. 4
 D. 4.5
 E. 18
Answer
A
Triangles
 the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees
 the sum of any 2 sides of a triangle is greater than
the 3rd side
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Example: In triangle ABC, the length of side
BC is 2 inches and the length of side AC is 10
inches. What is one possible length of side AB, in
inches?
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 Solution: 2 +10 = 12 there for the 3rd side has to
be greater than 8 and less than 12. Possible
answers are 9, 10, or 11.
Triangles
 In a right triangle, the side opposite the right
angle is the hypotenuse, the longest side.
 The pythagorean theorem can be used on
right triangles to find the missing side.
 a2 + b2 = c2
Parallel Lines
 1. If two parallel lines are cut by a third
line, the alternate interior angles are
congruent.
 2. If two parallel lines are cut bya third line,
the corresponding angles are congruent
 3. If two parallel lines are cut by a third
line, the sum of the measures of the interior
angles on the same side of the line is 180
degrees.
GRID IN QUESTIONS
 TRY ALL OF THESE
QUESTIONS—YOU
EARN A POINT FOR
EACH CORRECT
ANSWER
 YOU DO NOT LOSE
POINTS FOR
INCORRECT
ANSWERS!!
HOW TO GRID IN ANSWERS
 WRITE ONE NUMBER PER BOX AND
BUBBLE IN THE ANSWER.
 NO MIXED NUMBERS—USE
IMPROPER FRACTIONS OR
DECIMALS
 NO NEGATIVE NUMBERS
 NO LEADING ZERO BEFORE THE
DECIMAL—JUST BEGIN WITH THE
DECIMAL—PUT AS MANY NUMBERS
AS POSSIBLE
SAMPLE GRID IN
 N=2K -16
 K=N +2
 N=2(N + 2) -16
 N = 12
 (2 + 3) y = 22 – 2 + 11
 Y= 13/5 or 2.6
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