How Do You Pass Tests Using Teachers Best-Known Strategies?
The BEST test taking tips from a person with severe test-phobia who also happens to be a teacher. For tests you are able to study for: unit tests, mid-terms, and final exams, there is a wrong way and a right way to study for them. The wrong way is to stay up all night the night before the test and CRAM. First, that is not healthy; and second, that is not learning. The RIGHT way is a process: *If you own the text book, or have a study guide, READ IT and be sure to annotate (make additional notes in the margins). *Use a color-coded hi-lighting system (one color for vocabulary, another for facts/dates/etc to be remembered). *Take notes during lectures. *Reread the notes later that day using the same practice of annotating and hi-lighting. *Periodically during the course/unit reread your notes, annotations, and all information you have hi-lighted. *The week prior to the test reread your notes, annotations, and hi-lighted information nightly, making additional notes of importance to yoursel
