Math Test Taking Skills
Share these steps with your students as they prepare for a test.
Pretest Rules:
1. Before the day of the test make sure you get a good night's rest.
2. Study for the test well in advance, at least two or three days for a chapter test, longer for a unit test.
3. The night before a test, review only already learned material.
4. Get up at the usual time in the morning and review your notes.
During the test:
1. Use a memory dump system, i.e. write down facts figures and formulas that might help start a particular question. This step can be repeated several times throughout the test.
2. Take time to preview the test.
3. Time your progress throughout the test. Make a mental schedule for the test and try to follow it.
4. Solve the easy questions first and skip the difficult problems.
5. Go back to the skipped difficult problems and try to solve the ones you can while again skipping the difficult ones. Repeat this process.
6. Guess at the remaining problems. Do not leave blank answers.
7. Review the test and use all the allowed time.
Pretest Rules:
1. Before the day of the test make sure you get a good night's rest.
2. Study for the test well in advance, at least two or three days for a chapter test, longer for a unit test.
3. The night before a test, review only already learned material.
4. Get up at the usual time in the morning and review your notes.
During the test:
1. Use a memory dump system, i.e. write down facts figures and formulas that might help start a particular question. This step can be repeated several times throughout the test.
2. Take time to preview the test.
3. Time your progress throughout the test. Make a mental schedule for the test and try to follow it.
4. Solve the easy questions first and skip the difficult problems.
5. Go back to the skipped difficult problems and try to solve the ones you can while again skipping the difficult ones. Repeat this process.
6. Guess at the remaining problems. Do not leave blank answers.
7. Review the test and use all the allowed time.