Test Success: Test-Taking and Study Strategies for All Students, Including Those with ADD and LD - Softcover

Grossberg PsyD, Blythe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886941726 ISBN 13: 9781886941724

Publisher: Specialty Press/A.D.D. Warehouse, 2009

Synopsis

Offering middle school and high school students strategies to succeed on every type of test—from multiple-choice to standardized to essay tests—this book shows students how to maximize their time and skills. With successful, real-life strategies shared by students, this guide will also help students of all levels, including those with ADD/ADHD and learning disabilities, learn study skills, strategies to handle their anxiety concerning tests, and how to have a mental edge. Teachers and parents can additionally use this book to help students perform better in school.

About this title

About the Author

Blythe Grossberg, PsyD, is a learning specialist at the Collegiate School in New York City, and the author of Making ADD Work. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Test Success

Test-Taking and Study Strategies for All Students, Including Those with ADD and LD

By Blythe Grossberg, Peter Welleman

Specialty Press, Inc.

Copyright © 2009 Blythe Grossberg, Psy.D.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-886941-72-4

Contents

Shopping for a Learning Style, 
Beating the Clock: Time-Management Strategies, 
Playing and Winning the Testing "Game", 
Becoming Jane Austen: Acing Essay Tests, 
Einstein Made Easy: Outwitting Math Tests, 
Useful for Jeopardy: Mastering Tests that Require Memorization, 
Taking the Sting out of Pop Quizzes, 
Winning the Guessing Game: How to Take Multiple-Choice Tests, 
Standardized Tests: State-Mandated Tests and College-Entrance Tests, 
Getting and Using Accommodations in School, 
Using Your Results to Improve, 
Helpful Books and Websites, 
Summary of What I Learned from this Book, 
Teacher Worksheets and Classroom Exercises, 

CHAPTER 1

Shopping for a Learning Style

Discover Your Learning Style: Finding the Perfect Fit

This book starts with a shopping expedition. You'll get to try on different learning styles and decide which one suits you best. Instead of finding the best fit for a new pair of sneakers, you'll be looking for the way of studying that's the most natural to you. Just as you feel most comfortable in the pair of shoes that conforms best to your foot, you'll feel the most comfortable studying for tests if you find the way of learning that conforms to the way your mind works. The idea behind shopping for a learning style is that you can bring a lot of yourself to the process of studying for and taking tests. Throughout this book, you will find strategies that work for you. You can pick and choose the tips that you think will work, and you don't have to try those you think aren't right for you.

Make sense of your senses: Understanding how you primarily take in information.

The first step in customizing the way you learn is to understand how you take in information. People vary in which sense they prioritize when absorbing new material. Some people remember information best when they see it. These types of learners are visual in nature. Other people are auditory learners who tend to recall information that they hear — these are the types of students who often compose songs to study for tests. Finally, there are students who are kinesthetic and have to use their bodies to act out information. They remember best what they do — not what they see or hear.

We of course use all our senses all the time, but we may favor one over the other. To understand which type of learner you are, start by taking this short test. Don't worry — this is the fun sort of test that tells you more about yourself (and what could be more interesting?). After the test, you'll learn how to use your primary sense to make studying more interesting and to recall the information with greater ease.

SHOP FOR YOUR STYLE:

Are you an auditory, visual, or kinesthetic learner?

Place a check mark next to the statements that describe you.

Auditory learners:

____I remember words when they are put to a beat or to music.

____I remember material that I hear presented aloud without taking any notes.

____I prefer spoken directions over written directions.

__I don't often understand diagrams or graphs without an explanation.

____I like to talk through problems.

Visual Learners:

____I prefer written directions rather than oral

Edition details

• Publisher: Specialty Press/A.D.D. Warehouse
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1886941726
• ISBN 13: 9781886941724
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 125