Then begin the test. Study the Question Take a moment to study the question carefully before you begin to write. An important first step is to understand what the question asks you to do. No successful test taker just jumps into a question and begins to write. Instead, he or she first analyzes the question like any other task and tries to determine what must be done.
Every question is a communication problem to be solved.
The writer must determine the parts of the problem and how to respond to each part. Let's take an example. Every person can point to an event where some new, unfamiliar insight or discovery changed the course of his or her life. Identify such an event and explain how it changed your life. As you prepare to write a response to this prompt, imagine several readers, surrounded by stacks of similar responses to the same question.