multiple choice strategies
Whatever you do, DON’T
look
at the possible answers.
Whatever you do, DON’T
leave
a question blank.
This is a “high stakes” reading test
Don’t
skim.
Don’t
look at the questions first.
Don’t
blindly guess (unless it's a time thing.)
Don’t
treat it like an ACT.
Count on
non-fiction
letter
speech
essay
science
journalism
academic
“primary
source documents”
Count on
diversity
age
difficulty
ideas
genre
There are not 54 questions on the test.
There
are just a few types of questions:
inference
purpose
context
tone
rhetorical
term
inference

high volume question

“intelligence”
purpose questions
function
Why
is this here?
What should go here?
evidence
audience
structure
context questions
high
volume question
The
answers to context questions are
often “8 lines” above or “8 lines” below.
The
answer to a context question is
rarely the “common” definition.
rhetorical term questions
The
correct answer is never the weird
rhetorical term.
anaphora
chiasmus
paraprosdokian
There might not be a right
answer.
There might be a best
answer. (key)
They want you to feel stupid.
You
can’t know every word.
context
etymology
Words
come from somewhere.
a pattern to consider
The
test usually begins by asking a
question(s) about the whole passage and
then moves through the passage in a
linear pattern.
And
so therefore...
exam vocabulary
question
stem
key
distracters
2013
Corvette
a Corvette can have characteristics
long
weird
word
recapitulation of a words or phrases
from the passage
fact
half right