Testing - Tips and Techniques That Produce Success
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Verbal and Math Skills
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At Home
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Parents encourage reading
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Parents stimulate discussions
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Parents challenge thinking
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Parents teach reference lookup skills
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Verbal Skills
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Study Romance languages
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Study Latin
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Study words
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All Skills
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Know the Test
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Learn the directions ahead of time
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Learn to completely fill in circles
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Keep the paper clean, except for answers
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Watch out for the easy, but wrong answer
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Weigh the weight of the answer, in low penalty
tests, guessing may help you
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Familiarity can lower anxiety
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Practice can increase speed
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Coaching companies may help (est. $800)
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Use the Internet to practice tests
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Prepare the Body
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Dress for Success
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Links
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College
Board - SAT
- Educational Testing Service
- How to prepare for GRE, GMAT, and TOEFL. Sample questions.
Register for tests.
- GoCollege -
A commercial site to sell you Cliff Notes and PSAT/SAT prep
materials, but also a place to run computer searches for college
and scholarship information. They also have a separate links
pages to high schools on the Internet.
- Kaplan - Coaching company
- Reader's
Digest - Word Power
The full story was published in Reader's Digest,
September 1999, pp. 173-178, "How to build confidence, overcome anxiety,
and ... Boost Your Child's Test Scores," Edwin Kiester, Jr. and Sally
Valente Kiester
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