HSPA

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HSPA
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Twas the Night Before Testing

• Go to bed on time.
• Put a few No. 2 pencils with
  erasers in your backpack.
• Talk to your parents about any concerns that you
  might have about the test.
• Solve family/friend problems before
• the testing date.

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The Morning of Testing

• Think Positive!
• Start your day as you always do.
• Eat a good breakfast.
• Think of what you will do to relax after you get
  home from school.
• If you are sick.stay home!
• Put ALL electronic devices in your
• locker or leave them at
• home!

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No electronic devices in the room!!!!
VOID!!!!!
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Language Arts
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Language Arts

• Expository Writing (4P3D)
• Persuasive Writing (5-3-8)
• Narrative Reading Read Everything
• Persuasive Reading - Read Everything
• Open Ended - 5-8 Sentences-Use Inference

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Multiple Choice Questions

• Read the question but do not read all of the
  answers. Read the text.

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Multiple Choice Questions

• Do not change your answers unless you are very
  uncertain about your first answer choice.
• Try to answer every question. Make the most
  intelligent guess you can.

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Pace Yourself

• Dont spend too much time on any one question. Do
  your best and then move on.
• Answers the easiest questions first, but be sure
  to go back to those questions you skipped.

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The Process of Elimination

• After you have been through all of the questions
  once, go back and find questions you have some
  knowledge about and eliminate choices that you
  know are incorrect.

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The Process of Elimination

• If you can eliminate two wrong answers, your
  chance of choosing the right answer is greater.

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Answering Questions

• Don't guess blindly, but if you have time to
  think about the best answer choice, make it!

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Skip, Return, Check

• If you finish early, check to make sure you have
  answered ALL of the questions.

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Key Words

• Find key words or phrases in the question that
  will help you choose the correct answer.

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Are we communicating?

• Make sure you understand what the question is
  asking.
• Be sure you are responding to the question that
  is being asked.

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Reading Passages

• If the test requires you to read passages and
  then answer questions about what you read, read
  the questions first.
• By doing this, you will know what you are looking
  for as you
• read. This also helps you go
• faster on the test.

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Reading Passages

• When there are several questions about a reading
  passage or chart, look for clues in other
  questions that will help you with those items
  about which you are unsure.

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• Dickens A Tale of Two Cities takes
  place in what two cities?
  
  a. Glasgow London
  b. New York
  Paris
  c. Paris and London
  d. Dublin and Edinburgh

• Correct Answer C
• Both Paris and London are mentioned twice in the
  answers while the other cities are only mentioned
  once. If you only remember one of the two
  cities, you have to make a choice.

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• 2. Italy has been handicapped by all of the
  following except
  
  a. limited natural resources
  b. a
  shortage of fertile soil
  c. a lack of adequate
  ports
  d. overpopulated farm lands

• Correct Answer C
• Using background knowledge, you would hopefully
  know that Italy is a boot shaped peninsula
  surrounded by water on three sides, thus making
  a lack of adequate ports not possible.

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• 3. Which of the following is closest in value to
  1/3?
  a. ¼
  d. 5/16
• b. 3/8 e. 7/16
• c. 3/16

• Correct Answer D
• First, use the process of elimination. By looking
  at the five answers, you will see three that are
  similar (C, D, E). This could indicate that one
  of the answers lies within, as in this case it
  does. If you didnt know the math for figuring
  out the answer, at least you could narrow down
  the possibilities. By knowing the answer is
  probably in 16ths, then figuring 1/3 into 16ths
  seems an efficient use of your test-taking time.

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• 4. An example of a mismatched relationship is
  
  a. Chicago and
  Illinois
  b. Birmingham and Florida
  c. Kansas
  City and Missouri
  d. Phoenix and Arizona

• Correct Answer B
• The key word is mismatched. In order to find the
  answer, you need to first find the matching ones.
  This can help eliminate some of your choices. By
  matching the city correctly to its state, then A,
  C, and D are not the mismatched one. Letter B is.

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• 5. The purpose of the cluss in furmaling is to
  remove
  a.
  cluss-prags
• b. tremalis
• c. cloughs
• d. plumats

• Correct Answer A
• Because cluss is in the answer.

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• 7. The sigla frequently overfesks the treisum
  because
  a.
  all siglas are melious.
  b. siglas are
  always votial.
  c. the treisum is usually tarious
  d.
  no tresta are feskable.

• Correct Answer C
• Letters A, B, and D use definite terms such as
  all, always and no. The question uses the word
  frequently making letter C with the word
  usually a better answer.

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• 10. Which of the following (is,are) always
  present when trossets are being gruven?
  
  a. rint and vost
  
  b. vost
• c. shum and vost
• d. vost and plume

• Correct Answer B
• The key word is always. Vost is always present
  in all of the answers.

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• 11. The mintenng function of the ignu is most
  effectively carried out in
  
  a. a razma tool
• b. the gorshing stantil
  c. the fribbled breg
• d. a frally sush

• Correct Answer C
• The answer is given in question 8. (Remember that
  previewing the playing field can help find
  answers within a test!)

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Mathematics
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Math Section

• Four Standards are Tested
• Number and Numerical Operations 15
• Geometry and Measurement 25
• Patterns and Algebra 30
• Data Analysis, Probability, and
• Discrete Math 30

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Math Section

• Test Strategy and Pacing
• Do the Multiple Choice questions FIRST
• Dont spend more than 2 minutes per problem
• Complete the Open Ended problems last.
• 4. Dont spend more than 5
• minutes per problem

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Math Computation

• When using scratch paper on a math test, double
  check to make sure that you have copied the
  problem correctly from the test booklet!

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Math Computation

• Line up place value correctly on your scratch
  paper (thousands, hundreds, tens, ones) or the
  answer will be incorrect.

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Math Computation

• If your answer does not match one of the choices,
  reread the problem, recopy the numbers, and try
  solving it again.

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4-Step Method for Problem Solving

• 1. Underline the question
• 2. Circle important information.
• 3. Select a strategy.
• 4. Solve and check.

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Self-Assessment

• if you are reasonably sure of your answer
• ? if your answer was your best guess
• - if you had absolutely no
• clue

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Final Tips

• Fill in bubbles fully, write neatly, and erase
  stray marks.
• Double-check the test number in your test booklet
  against the answer sheet every few questions to
  be sure you havent gotten on
• the wrong number.