Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Penultimate Day 5
One more day of "regular school" and then we begin two short weeks of "review school". After that, I hope that we can all enjoy a well-earned and well-deserved summer vacation. For most of you, that is going to take a lot of review over the next few weeks.
I meant to mention this subtle test-taking tip in class today, so here goes:
You all know that parts A and B-1 contain 30 and 20 multiple choice questions, respectively. You also know that the questions are in the order chronologically of the topics that we learned this year.
The test-taking tip is to USE the multiple choice QUESTIONS, DIAGRAMS, and ANSWER choices to help you in answering the written part B-2 and C questions. Even familiarizing yourself with the topics based on the part A and B-1 questions will help to focus you on the given part B-2 and C topic, so make sure that you look back at the multiple choice parts as you do the B-2 and C parts.
The more you know...
Honors and Regents: we finished Jan. 2007 and continued with review of Aug. 2003 with particular focus on the meaning and requirements for answering questions that have the keywords "explain" (how and why...DRAW your explanation and THEN write it!), "describe" (tell WHAT happened, in full sentences), "list", "name", "identify" (you only have to write a word or a phrase to answer such a question).
I meant to mention this subtle test-taking tip in class today, so here goes:
You all know that parts A and B-1 contain 30 and 20 multiple choice questions, respectively. You also know that the questions are in the order chronologically of the topics that we learned this year.
The test-taking tip is to USE the multiple choice QUESTIONS, DIAGRAMS, and ANSWER choices to help you in answering the written part B-2 and C questions. Even familiarizing yourself with the topics based on the part A and B-1 questions will help to focus you on the given part B-2 and C topic, so make sure that you look back at the multiple choice parts as you do the B-2 and C parts.
The more you know...
Honors and Regents: we finished Jan. 2007 and continued with review of Aug. 2003 with particular focus on the meaning and requirements for answering questions that have the keywords "explain" (how and why...DRAW your explanation and THEN write it!), "describe" (tell WHAT happened, in full sentences), "list", "name", "identify" (you only have to write a word or a phrase to answer such a question).
# posted by C @ 2:28 PM 
