Social Studies TAKS Day

Test-taking Strategies

Critical to Remember

• You cannot instruct a student on how to take the test on TAKS test day. TAKS test day is the one day that students may take the test as they choose.

• TAKS testing strategies must be taught before test day.

After receiving the test

• Students put answer document under the desk

• Students open test booklet and write any acronyms, draw any visuals to help with key eras, concepts or principles in the inside cover

• Answer all questions in booklet first

Students…. Read through each question

• Write appropriate era• Circle people’s name• Highlight words like “not, except, least

likely…”• Put a question mark beside any words that

you are not sure of and see if you can pick up clues for those words

Read through each question again….

• When checking, brainstorm what you know about the era, vocabulary, key people, the time

• Remember-Most questions will have an answer choice that is true, but that is NOT the answer to the question

• Consider each of the four answer choices asking “Why not this one?”

• Try not to guess without eliminating two choices

Ten Day Countdown!

Remain in a state of sustained review!

Count Down-Ten Day Review-Grade 8-unless your data indicates otherwise

• Day one-Geography Skills

• Day two-Political Parties and Documents

• Day three-Dates and Eras

• Day four-Revolution

• Day five-Constitution

• Day six-Westward Expansion

• Day seven-Industrialization

• Day eight-Civil War

• Day nine and ten-Global Review