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Index
How to Explore an Issue Efficiently
- 10 Tips for Exploring Lessons
Fast and Well
- 10 Tips for Exploring Assignments Fast and Well
- 7 Tips for Exploring Projects Fast and Well
- 7 Steps to Acing the Tests
How to Explore an Issue Fairly
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7 Steps to Acing the Tests
Like everything else in the Social Studies 11 course, the tests
are related to exploring the issues. In particular, notice in the practice
tests that Part C is typically based on the "Focussing on the Issue"
questions that appear at the start of each chapter.
Preparing for the tests and taking them actually helps you to bring together
your knowledge of the issues and your insight into them. However, your
first concern with tests is probably to get a good mark. To that end,
here are seven steps. They are essentially a brief form of a set of steps
that is provided in the final lesson of each module in the Social Studies
11 course.
- Look over the practice test. Notice the format of each part,
but do not study the content of the questions at this time.
- Plan your review. Make a checklist of aspects of the module
that you need to review.
- Review in a calm, efficient, systematic way. Check off the
items on your checklist as you take care of them.
- Do the practice test. It is useful to do it in one 90-minute
period in conditions that are reasonably similar to actual test conditions.
- Assess your status. After taking a break, check your answers
against the answer key. On this basis, determine what further review
you need to do in order to achieve the level of knowledge and test mark
that you are aiming for.
- Stay calm and confident. If you are prepared and rested, you
can look forward to the test with only a useful level of anxiety.
- Give the test your best. It is a good idea to arrive in plenty
of time and to take the full 90 minutes. This will probably allow you
time for checking.
- Learn from the test. Take a few minutes to make notes about
what to keep doing right and what to improve in order to achieve even
greater success on future tests.
| Test-taking is a complex task. For
complex tasks, the most useful feedback often consists of selective
feedback shortly before you do the task again. It is therefore important
to review your "learn from the test" notes the next time
you are preparing for a test. For best results, focus on only two
or three bits of advice that can have high impact. |
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