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TAKS Practice, Day 4

TAKS Practice, Day 4. POE Is The Key & Grid-In Questions are Bubbalicious. 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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TAKS Practice, Day 4

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  1. TAKS Practice, Day 4 POE Is The Key & Grid-In Questions are Bubbalicious

  2. 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.

  3. 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. You’re going to be guessing anyway; you might as well guess intelligently. Don’t use POE if you already know how to do a problem– just do the problem!

  4. 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???

  5. 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%. • That’s not great, but it’s a whole lot better than a grade of 25!

  6. 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%. • Wouldn’t you like to be able to get half your guesses right?

  7. 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.

  8. Process of Elimination (POE) • QUESTION: What if I am not sure if I should eliminate an answer? • ANSWER: Then don’t 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. Don’t eliminate answers that are close to your guess because you are not certain they are wrong.

  9. But what about the ones that don’t have answer choices??

  10. Grid-In Questions • QUESTION: Once I’ve 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!

  11. Grid-In Questions Try to find an answer before proceeding to the next slide.

  12. 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

  13. Grid-In Questions • QUESTION: What if I don’t 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!

  14. 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!!!!

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