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=﻿Test taking strategies= 1.It is best to review the material right after class when it's still fresh in your memory. 2.Have all of your study material in front of you: lecture notes, course textbooks, study guides and any other relevant material. 3.Learn the general concepts first. 4.Make sure that you understand the material well, don't just read through the material and try to memorize everything. 5.Start out by studying the most important information. 6.Don't worry about learning the details until you have learned the main ideas. 7.Use flashcards, writing the key terms, dates and concepts on the front and the definition, event, and explanations on the back. 8.Read the question carefully and make sure that you answer everything that it asks for. 9. Show your work/write down your thoughts. 10.Make an outline before writing your essay. 11.Focus on one main idea per a paragraph. 12.Don't write long introductions and conclusions, the bulk of your time should be spent on answering the question(s) asked. 13.﻿﻿Work on practice problems for each topic ranging in levels of difficulty. 14.Show all your work (especially when partial credit is awarded) and write as legibly as possible. 15.Check over your test after you are done with it. If you have time redo the problem on a separate piece of paper and see if you come up with the same answer the second time around. Look for careless mistakes such as making sure the decimal is in the right place, that you read the directions correctly, that you copied the numbers correctly, that you put a negative sign if it is needed, that your arithmetic is correct and so on. .