What should you avoid the morning of a test?
When is the best time to start preparing for a test?
Is it OK to watch TV the night before a test?
This comprehensive, interactive CD-ROM fosters effective test-taking for those who need to boost their performance—and beefs up the skills of those who already test well.
Students learn:
• Effective note-taking techniques
• Productive study habits
• How to create memory aids
• How to handle different test formats
• The best "night before" and "test day" strategies
• The specifics of time management
• The importance of a good attitude
Special features:
• Quizzes
• A clickable index that takes users directly to their topics of interest
• A viewable/printable teacher’s guide with learning objectives, program summary, educational standards, fast facts, vocabulary terms, discussion and assessment questions, student activities, and a list of additional helpful resources
Sections include…
• Introduction: Outlines test-taking strategies, and insights into why people experience test stress
Highlight: Pre-test and post-test activities for better overall success
• The Preparation Package: Offers test-prep techniques, and how to approach various test types
Highlight: Stresses the importance of a series of manageable incremental steps, starting weeks before test-day
• The Big Day: Addresses test-day nervousness by suggesting a schedule to follow in the hours leading up to an exam
Highlight: Top ten list of tips
• Post-Test Homework: Emphasizes the importance of analyzing test-question errors, and explains how to use the test experience to improve future test scores
Highlight: Rollover pop-ups on five common problems—and their solutions
• Summary: Ties it all together, and gives students some final advice
Highlight: Video clips of four teachers and four students who talk from experience and give additional tips
• Test Your Knowledge: Offers a multiple choice quiz to assess student comprehension and reinforce user learning
System requirements:
• PC platform: All Windows versions.
• Macintosh platform: All Macintosh operating systems.
A Cambridge Educational Production.
Correlates to National Language Arts Standards and National Assessment Standards for School Mathematics.
One Windows/Macintosh hybrid CD-ROM and printable teacher’s guide. © 2004.