Better Grades 29
Little Tricks Can Help Improve Your Score On Tests
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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-
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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.
But compare it to: "Men are
created equal in all ways." This
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is obviously false. Some men
are smarter than others, strong
er than others and so forth. See
what a difference the "in all
ways" makes? Be very careful
of these little universal qualifi
ers. 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
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