OK, so Martha has your test and answer booklet. She doesn't know you, and doesn't care to. In fact, she doesn't even know about Reading Workshop, the name of the school, the town, or the state where you live. You are just a number in a stack. A tall stack of answer booklets that have to be graded before she can take a break.Whether or not you pass this test means less than nothing to Martha. The things on her mind include sneaking out to get a diet coke, getting rid of this head ache, figuring out how to avoid listening to her sister complain about having to babysit, and about having to do laundry after work, or she will have absolutely nothing to wear tomorrow. She is also thinking about surfing and last summer's vacation.
Now it all comes down to you, the student, and your answer booklet. Will your hard work be in vain? Will eight months of learning be wasted? Or will you be a success story making yourself, your parents, your teachers, and your school feel proud?
The first thing, can she read it? Did you write legibly? Trying to strain her eyes and her brain to read cat scratches is going to irritate Martha. She probably won't even take the time to sort through it. She will just give it a big, fat, zero. Did you write neatly?
Next, if you restated the question and numbered your responses, Martha can easily find key words and information. Using a rubric to score short answer and extended response answers, Martha is looking for specific words and answers. Did you organize your answers to make finding key points easy?
Going back and finding specific details in the passage is paramount. Any time a questions asks for specific details, they are looking for examples word-for-word from the text. Did you go back into the essay and find specific details?
Another factor that makes grading easier is correct spelling. Most of the words that you need to spell are either in the question, or in the passage. It just takes a second to look back and find the correct spelling. Did you use the passage to help you with your spelling?
Did you use the basic test taking skills that you have learned in class?
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On the OAA you should make sure to make it easy on Martha, ( if you have never heard of Martha, then go to The Reading Workshop. )
Some test strategies you should keep in mind while taking the OAA is
1. Restate the question
2. Look back in the passage
3. Reread
4. Make sure your answering the question completely
5. Spell words correctly if there in the passage or question
6. Check all the bubbles to make sure there all filled in
7. If it asks "support your answer with specific detail from the passage" make sure you get word for word from the passage to answer that question
Those are some important strategies I am going to remember, Are you going to remember these?
The OAA is a big challenge for me because I don't use hints like I should, these are the one I'm going to use.
1.Reread
2. Look back at the passage.
3. Check all answers.
4. Make shur u answer all the question correctly.
5. Use details from the selection to answer the question.
6. Spell words correctly.
7. Check all multiple choice to see if you circled them all.
These are all my hints I'm going to use this year on the OAA.
There was this one time when we had to take a practice achievement test. We didn't have to do the whole thing, we just had to do one passage. Mr.McGuire told us that every answer we got we had to go back in the passage and mark the question number by the paragraph that we got our answer from. In that passage I got a 100%. It really helped me because I had to go back in the passage just to show my work. I think I'll use that same method for the achievement test.
Another great method to use for this test is to not mark your answer in your answer document right away. What I do is I go through the whole test and mark my answers in the actual test. Then, once I'm finished with the test, I go back to the answer document and mark my answers. While I'm going through and marking the answers I check my answers. It's just another way to check your answer and keep yourself organised.
Another test taking method is to number your answer document. This is a way to organise your answers. I do this all the time and it always helps. It just shows you that you know what the question is asking for, and it makes it a lot easier for the test graders.
I think that the basic test taking skills are, restate the question, answer completely, answer what the question is asking, use details from the passage, no one word responses, correct spelling, and most importantly you have to try your best.
For me tests are really stressing and nerve wrecking because I always want to get a really good grade and I never want to be disappointed. I think that there a lot of people like that who always want to get good scores and a good grade because if you don't then you feel like you can't do it and you feel like you aren't good enough.
I use all of these skills because I want to be successful and i want to be able to say that i passed the test. I really think that people should feel the same way because if you get a good grade then you can have something to be proud of and you can say,"I did it!"
I have one thing to say to Martha, "I hope you get to grade Laurelville Elementary's tests because then you can say that you graded the tests that came from an excellent school. Remember that name because you'll see in a few years all of the million-airs that come from this school."
Some of my test taking strategies are going back and checking if I transfered the answers over to the answer document right. I have messed up my answer document by coloring in the wrong answer a lot. The reason I knew that is because I went back over and checked all of my answers and made sure I colored them in right or not.
I also always read the questions first before I read the passage so I know what to look for and what to underline. Doing this helps me so I don't have to go back and skim over everything until I find the answer. A lot of times when I skim I can't find the answer.
Everyone needs to have there own strategies when taking a test. It doesn't matter what your strategies are but you just need to find a strategy or two that make taking the test easier for you.
The OAA is a big challenge for me because I don't use hints like I should, these are the ones I'm going to use.
1.Reread
2. Look back at the passage.
3. Check all answers.
4. Make sure you answer all the question correctly.
5. Use details from the selection to answer the question.
6. Spell words correctly.
7. Check all multiple choice to see if you circled them all.
These are all my hints I'm going to use this year on the OAA.
The strategies I use on test is restating and going back in the text. I think it helps a lot.
I think I try my best on test like the one we have coming up I'm not saying that I don't try my best on my other test.
If you put all the strategies you teachers tell you they work on any test like you can use strategies that your Math teacher taught you and use them on reading it makes the test that much easier.
The thing that gets me most on the test is the extended responses I hardly ever get all the points on them but at the beginning of the year I would have gotten 0 on them and now what I have learned how to get most of the points.
I definitely now that I'm going to do a good job on the test I hope I do anyway an anyone who has faith in themselves and they use everything that we have been taught and if you use the strategies you should be able to ace this test.
Some basic test taking skills I have learned in class are..........
*1.check our work
*2.reread the passage
3.reread our work
4.underline in the passage
5.number parts in a extended response
6.write neat in our responses
When we take the Ohio Achievement Assessment I will do every thing that we as a whole six grade have learned this year and the previous years.
When the Ohio Achievement Assessment rolls around I will use all the strategies we have learned like,
1. Go over the test when done.
2. Reread.
3. Go back in the passage.
4. give the best answer as you can if you don't know the answer or haveing a hard time.
5. If you don't know how to spell a word go back in the passage and see if the word is in the passage if not spell the best as you can.
6. Answer all questions.
Skills I know for taking the O.A.A....
1.Read the title
2.Find any extras like the subheadings or pictures with captions or footnotes
3.Read the questions
4.Then read the passage
5.Go back in the passage to find the answers
6.Make sure to answer all of the questions
I had to go get a little bit of help during Language Arts and these are the what the helper teacher told me to do while taking the O.A.A. I do this so I can at least get most of my questions right.
When I say that 1st I read the title it could kind of give a huge hint about what the story is about.
The subheadings or any of the other extras can help you understand the passage more and help you understand what that paragraph is about.
If you read the questions before you read the passage then you can fine the answers while you are reading the passage you could be reading a part that was one of the questions and be like oh i have heard that before.
Want some basic test taking skills to past the test? Well here are some basic test taking skills listed below.
1. Go back in the passage to find the correct answer
2. Use context clue to find out what word means (sometime it will work, but not all the time)
3. Give specific detail from the text
4. Restate you question and numbered your responses
5. Correct your spelling that sounds like the word you are spelling
6. Cross out bad answer choices
7. If the word you are spelling look it could be the question and in the passage
These are good ways to get your grade higher. The stuff listed above are ways to get smarter. If you want good grades use these basic test taking skills. They will help alot.
Test taking skills are like check codes for a video games (well that is for me and for you it will be different). The reason they are similar is because you use them to get better at the video game and you will get better at the test if you use the test taking skills. For
instance say your on level 24 and you are trying to get pass it and you type in a cheat code you go to the next level and if you are question 24 and you use your test taking skills then you go to the next question its really simple if you ask me.
Okay we are taking the O.A.A next week and I'm just worried about my extended responses. I understand what the question is asking and when I reread my brain knows what it's supposed to say and I can't have anybody read over it. Then I have a word missing or a sentence doesn't make sense.
If I mess up I hope the grader starts out with a good day and my test isn't at the bottom. I'm just gonna have to try my best and have no mistakes. I am gonna convince myself that I got them all right (Even though I can't).
Here are some test taking skills I use. I hope you can use them too.
1. Whisper the questions out loud to myself, if I don't understand it.
2. Underline or highlight needed information.
3.Check for skipped questions.
4.Check and make sure I circled the correct answer.
5. Reread my extended responses out loud to myself.
6. Before I read the passage, read the title, check for extras like maps or pictures or subheadings, look for when the passage ends, and then read the questions.
Next week is the reading OAA and the math OAA.
On tests I use hints that I've learned in the past like:
1.) Restate the question.
2.) Reread your responce.
3.) Look back at the passage.
4.) Check your PUGs.
5.) Answer what the question is asking.
6.) Stay on topic.
These are things I do at school.
Things I do at home is:
1.) Get a good nights sleep.
2.) STUDY.
3.) Get a healthy breakfast.
I hope these tips help anybody who reads this.
Strategies that I use during the OAA test's are...
1. I read the questions first before reading the passage.
2. I restate extended response question's.
3. I should write questions word for word out of the passage.
4. I look back through the passage.
5. i don't write things I Know when it says list three four things spoke by the author OUT OF THE SELECTION write what is said in the passage.
6. Go back and check answers once you're done if you have time.
7. Make sure all answers are done.
8. Check spelling.
9. I should spell should be correct if it's in the passage or question
I hope these things help me during the OAA test
Strategies that I do before the OAA's are...
1) I get a good night sleep.
2) I eat a good breakfast.
3) I wear comfortable clothes to school.
Strategies that I do during the OAA's are...
1) I read the title before anything else.
2) I read all of the questions before the passage.
3) I make sure I know where the selection ends, that way I don't miss any important information.
4) I skim through the selection, then go back and re-read it slower.
5) I restate all the extended response questions.
6) For extended response I always copy the answer to a question word from word.
These are my strategies to get ready for the OAA's and when I'm taking the OAA's. I hope these strategies will help you too.
The only parts of the OAA I am worried about is the four point extended responses because Mr. McGuire says I don't write enough and I believe him.
1. Restate the question in extended response questions
2. Check the spelling
3. Do the three checks Ms. Bowlby taught us to do
4. If I can't spell a word then make it as close as I can
5. Look back through the test
6. Take breaks so I don't lose topic
7. Plug my ears and whisper the question to myself
8. Read title first
9. Look for extras
10. Look where the end of the story is
11. Read the questions
12. Read the passage
I will try my best to remember these things and I hope these tips help people who read this comment. I passed the test last year so I think I will be able to pass the test this year because we have worked all year on these thing listed above.
My strategy for the OAA's are.
1.reread
2. go back in the passage
3.underline
4.write neatly
5.skim through the passage
6.check spelling
7.check over the test when I am finished
8.restate extended response questions
9.answer the questions completely
10.read the questions first
Things I do at home are.
1.get a good night sleep
2.eat a good breakfast
3.study
These are going to be the strategies I remember for the test. I hope these help anyone else too.
I think of the test as a way of improving your ability to think. One to help you think is come up with a list of strategies.
1. Read the question
2. Go back in the selection
3. Read the answer choices
4. Eliminate bad answer choices
5. Pick the one that makes the most since
These are the things I do during the OAA. I also write neatly so that the grader doesn't have trouble reading my response.
I think I'm going to get a pretty good grade on the OAA. I hope everyone tries their best on the OAA. GOOD LUCK!!!
Test strategies, there are many of them but everybody is different therefor everybody has their own way of figuring out what in their opinion is a hard question. I personally like to use these three to help . . . .
1. Read the question a few times. 2. Go back in the text. 3. Underline the important text in the question and search in the passage.
A few of my Ohio Achievement Test taking strategies are...
1.To write as neatly as I can. I use this strategy when I am writing my extended response questions.
2.To read each question carefully.I use this strategy on both extended responses and multiple choice questions.
3. Look back in each and every passage even if I am sure it's the right answer. I use this strategy on both extended responses and multiple choice questions also.
4. Eliminate bad answer choices. I use this strategy on multiple choice questions.
These test taking strategies help me while I am taking the Ohio Achievement Test, they will probably help you too! If you use them!
My test strategies consist of looking back in the text to find the answer. To me if I get to a hard question its like I'm in the Millennium Folken and I'm trying to jump to light speed, but then C-3PO tells me that a part is broken and then I get a little concerned because a bunch of star destroyers and Imperial shuttles are trying to shoot me down but then I try to solve the problem.
Some of my test strategies are....
1. Read the questions
2. Then read the passage
3. Look for key words
4. Eliminate bad answers
5. Read the passage if I don't get something
6. underline and highlight where I found the answer in case there is another question similar to the one
Those test strategies help me get a lot of points on test so I would recommend using some or all of these strategies if you would like to.
These are a few of my test strategies....
1.Read the question
2. Write neatly for a good grade
3. Read over each passage carefully
4. Eliminate wrong multiple choice answers
5. Look for key words
6. Underline or highlight
7.Check over your test after you're done.
These are my test strategies, I always use these strategies on a test.
I agree with our teacher Mr. McGuire. He said that he is not nervous one little bit about the test because he is so confident in our class and grade. I agree because I also think that if we all stay relaxed, confident and use our test taking strategies, that we are all capable of passing.I think that if we all come really nervous and hyped up about the test that it will only hurt our chances because we wont be able to think straight.
Once again I think if we all do what we are capable of we will all pass. I no every one probably has there own special ways of using test strategies or have there own. All I ask is you put them into play and use them so we can all go into camp confident.
I agree with our teacher Mr. McGuire. He said that he is not nervous one little bit about the test because he is so confident in our class and grade. I agree because I also think that if we all stay relaxed, confident and use our test taking strategies, that we are all capable of passing.I think that if we all come really nervous and hyped up about the test that it will only hurt our chances because we wont be able to think straight.
Once again I think if we all do what we are capable of we will all pass. I no every one probably has there own special ways of using test strategies or have there own. All I ask is you put them into play and use them so we can all go into camp confident.
When I take the OAA I am going to do these strategies.........
1.Skim the passage
2. Read the questions
3. Look for extras(word bank,other titles ex)
4.Re-Read the passage
5.write neatly
6.Re-Read the questions
7.Underline the important text in the question and search in the passage
8.Go back in the passage and look for answers
9.Eliminate bad answer choices. I use this strategy on multiple choice questions
10.look for the end of the story
11.Read the title
Here are some things I will do at home for test like this one in a week....
1.Get about 6 to 9 hours of sleep
2.eat a great and healthy breakfast
3.STUDY once or twice a day.
There are the strategies I will do at home and on the test.
Although a lot of people are nervous about the test, I'm not really very nervous. I'm not nervous because I know how, what, and when to use test taking strategies. (Believe me I remember them. The teachers have really been stressing them to us.)
1. I always reread all the questions more than once even if I understand them the first time just to make sure.
2. I make sure to either underline or highlight the really important stuff in a question.
3. If there is a graph, I always make sure to read all parts of it, because sometimes there can be a clue in a part of the graph.
4. I always try to read the questions first so that I know what to look for and underline.
5. I always *check over my answers*. (That is pretty much the most important.)
These are my test taking strategies and if I use them hopefully I'll get a good score on my O.A.A.
I have 4 strategies to pass the test
1.read the question
2.reread what you wrote
3.restate
4.Make Mr.McGuire happy and do your best
If you want to study I think that you can't really study for the OAA because it is over what you learned all school year. So unless you wrote every thing that you did in school and have a paper to study you can't really study. And unless the teacher gave you a study guide you can't really study.
You should not be nervous because we all are capable of getting an A+ on this test but when you are nervous you can't think and then you can't get a good grade then you will make Mr.McGuire mad because you did not do better then the class 2 years ago.
So there is nothing to be nervous about.
Almost everybody is really nervous about the test coming up next week.But I am not all that worried about the O.A.A test coming up.Because I just pretend that the O.A.A test is just like a regular test.
One of the first things that one of my teachers taught me was to look at the title because the title can help you with the main idea.She also taught me that I should look through and see if there is any foot notes or any word banks to see what specific words mean.Then right before I start to read the passage my teachers tell me that I should read the questions.
One of the first things that I am going to do on the test is skim through it then read it slowly.another thing that I am going to do is go back in the passage and underline everything that I need.I am also going to do process of elimination.The next thing I am going to do is answer all of the parts instead of answering just part of it.I think I am going to do really good on the O.A.A Test.
On the test here are some of the strategies that I use
one if you are having trouble reading it plug your ears and whisper it to yourself. Another strategy that I use is don't fell like you are being pushed to get it done take all the time they give you to take the test. this test is like your trapped in a video game and you want to get out so you go and get cheat codes to figure out how you can get out and when you get the cheat codes what do you do with them throw them away NO you use them that would be stupid if your cheat codes are right in front of you and you don't use them. you have an advantage to get out and you just sit their doing nothing like a frog in a shallow bucket it has legs it can jump out but what dose it do just sit their like a statue. Another strategy I use is look for captions under pictures and look for were the story ends also look for a word bank. These strategy's will help you believe me I have for 5 years.
When I take a achievement test I go back in the passage if I don't remember part of a story or I just forgot it, most likely that will happen 1-3 times. I go back through the test to make sure I didn't skip any questions. Before I go to another question I reread it 1 or 2 times. I almost never underline, that probably doesn't help.
People are freaking out about the big O.A.A.(Ohio Achievement Assessment)since it is next week.I 'm not I just no to do my best and try my hardest.But in years passed I have did good.
When I am taking the test I am just going to remember that after the week of testing is over then we get to go to camp for 3 days. So we can relax and have fun with our friends and teachers.
Teachers always tell you to take you time and go back over your work and to not spend too much time on one question.Also to look in the passage for answers.
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