TAKS Practice, Day 4

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TAKS Practice, Day 4

• POE Is The Key
• Grid-In Questions are Bubbalicious

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Process of Elimination (POE)

• QUESTION What is Process of Elimination?
• ANSWER It is the process of marking out answer
  choices you know to be incorrect so that you will
  have less answers to choose from.

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Process of Elimination (POE)

• QUESTION When Should I Use Process of
  Elimination?
• ANSWER When you have little or no idea how to do
  a problem. Youre going to be guessing anyway
  you might as well guess intelligently. Dont use
  POE if you already know how to do a problem just
  do the problem!

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Process of Elimination (POE)

• Most of the questions you will encounter on the
  TAKS test are multiple choice questions. Since
  there are only four answer choices, your chances
  of getting a question right simply by guessing
  are 1 in 4, or 25.
• Who wants a 25 on a test???

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Process of Elimination (POE)

• If you are able to eliminate even one answer
  choice, your odds of getting the question right
  by guessing from the remaining answer choices
  goes up to 1 in 3, or 33.
• Thats not great, but its a whole lot better
  than a grade of 25!

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Process of Elimination (POE)

• If you are fortunate and able to eliminate two
  wrong answer choices, your odds of getting a
  question right go up to 1 in 2, or 50.
• Wouldnt you like to be able to get half your
  guesses right?

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Process of Elimination (POE)

• QUESTION How Do I Know What Answer Choices to
  Eliminate?
• ANSWER Make educated guesses. For example, if
  the problem refers to a graph of a line and asks
  about its slope, look at the graph. If the line
  goes up, any negative answers can be eliminated.

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Process of Elimination (POE)

• QUESTION What if I am not sure if I should
  eliminate an answer?
• ANSWER Then dont eliminate that answer!! Only
  eliminate answers you are certain are wrong. For
  example, if you are trying to find the area of a
  rug, make your best guess at what the area of the
  rug could be. Ballpark it. If there is an
  answer choice that is much smaller or much bigger
  than your guess, then you can safely eliminate
  that answer because you are certain it is wrong.
  Dont eliminate answers that are close to your
  guess because you are not certain they are wrong.

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But what about the ones that dont have answer
choices??
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Grid-In Questions

• QUESTION Once Ive got an answer for these
  questions, how do I bubble it in?
• ANSWER By using what you know about place value.
  There is a decimal point provided on your grid.
  Just line up according to that!

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Grid-In Questions
Try to find an answer before proceeding to the
next slide.
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Grid-In Questions
Notice that the answer is written on the line and
bubbled in beneath that. Your written-in answers
will NOT be graded. ONLY the BUBBLED part will
be graded. You should write in your answers as
well as bubbling because it is easier for you to
look at a number when you go back through the
test to check your answers.
READ THIS
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Grid-In Questions

• QUESTION What if I dont know how to do a
  grid-in problem?
• ANSWER Guess anyway! There is no penalty for
  guessing, and who knows, you could get it right!

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Your Assignment

• Correct the rest of the problems on both your
  TAKS Benchmark Test and your TAKS Sample Test 1.
• We will grade both of these at the beginning of
  class on Monday, April 28. (No, really, we
  will.)
• You take the TAKS Math Test NEXT WEEK!!!!