INTD 100A: Freshman Seminar

How Are Your Test Taking Skills?

	always	sometimes	never
1. Do you preview your entire exam paper before beginning?
2. Do you allocate and keep track of time while taking the exam?
3. Do you review the exam once you've finished?
4. Do you avoid changing answers frequently unless you are certain that your first answer is wrong?
5. Do you always read all of the choices on a multiple-choice exam before choosing the answer?
6. Do you use the point value of short-answer questions as a guide to how much informatoin to provide?
7. Do you read the directions before beginning the exam?
8. Do you avoid reading too much into a test question?
9. Do you look for key words that qualify the meaning of true and false items?
10. Do you look for clues in the question that suggest how to answer it?

The questionnaire is from Study and Critical Thinking Skills in College (4^th Ed.) by Kathleen T. McWhorter. Longman Press. 2000.