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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1963)
Better Grades 29 Little Tricks Can Help Improve Your Score On Tests PAGE HA By The Reading Laboratory ; Written for Newspaper Enterprise Am I Before we start today's arti cle, a little perspective will be a good idea. If you have pre pared adequately for the test, if you have been studying day by Bay, you will be able to get a good mark without any trouble. JJut at the same time, you will e able to raise your score a Jew tricks of test-making and Jest-taking. ; ' Psychologists have recognized for a long time that some peo ple tend to be better on a test than some others regardless of intelligence. This is partly due to the fact that some people work better under stress than others do, but it is also true that some people are simply more test-wise than others. They know how to make a test work for them. Take the example of objective tests, that is, true-false tests, multiple-choice tests, and so forth. The unsophisticated test- "Better Grades" Reader Service co Herald and News . Box 941 Klamath Falls, Oregon : Please send me copies of ; 30 DAYS TO BETTER GRADES at $1 each. Name . , Address : , City . ;.. State ; laker starts to answer the first question and works his way through to the end. That sounds sensible, but it really is not. The test-wise student reads the test all the way through before he starts. He is looking to see if h i givs away som ans-a if the test gives away some ans wers. Most long objective tests will. For instance, the ans wer to question 5 lor a good clue to the answer) may be im plied by question 20 or maybe by question 3, 21 and 22, when they are taken together. The true-false tests are anoth er case in point. Watch out for the little but so-important uni versal qualifiers on the true false tests. The universal qual ifiers are "always," "never," "all," "none," and words like them. The sentence in which they appear is usually false. For instance, we have the sen tence, "Men are created equal" which may be a true sentence. 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You will also run into the standardized multiple choice tests. These are IQ tests, vocab ulary tests, placement tests and the like that are not made up by your teacher. They are usu ally printed in regular booklet form. Many of the standardized multiple-choice tests are scored by counting just the right answers. No points are taken off for wrong answers. That means that on a 100-question test, if you got 40 right and 60 wrong, your score would be twice as high as it would be if you took your time and got 20 right and none wrong just the right ans wers are counted. You must be careful, though, because some tests College Boards are one penalize you for wrong answers. The best thing to do is to ask your proc tor how the test is scored whether it's a right-minus-wrong test or if just the right answers are counted. If there are no penalties for wrong answers, fill in every blank on the test! Even if you take some wild guesses, the law of averages says that you will get some of them right. Finally, never just give up and leave an essay question blank. That is the surest way to get a zero. Put something down! Make it sound as plaus ible as you can and you will get some points perhaps for originality. But never just quit. Remember, that these are all ways to make the structure of the test work for you. They are little tricks that may help you TEENAGE BALLROOM 6 WEEK COURSE Smarting Tuet., Nov. 5th THURSTON DANCE STUDIO PHONE TU 4-4IS1 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday, October 31, 1963 Counfy Park Association Will Meef SALEM (UPI) The fourth annual conference of the Ore gon County Park Association will be held here Friday. State Highway Engineer For rest Cooper said outdoor recrea tion leaders from public and private agencies and organiza tions throughout the state are expected to attend. Laurance Espey, association president and chairman of the Jackson County Park and Rec reation Commission, will pre side at the 9 a.m. opening meeting- Gov. 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