Gruber's essential guide to test taking.
By: Gary Gruber.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Naperville, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781402211850
Subjects: Test-taking skills; Examinations -- Study guides
Work titles: Essential guide to test taking for kids.
Notes: "Originally published in 1986 by William Morrow and Company, Inc."
Table of contents: title: Introduction to parents; title: A word about the psychology of working with your child; title: What parents should know about standardized tests; title: General test-taking skills; title: Verbal strategies : analogies; title: Analogy strategy : always put analogies in sentence form; title: Most common types of analogy; title: Practice exercises and explanatory answers; title: Vocabulary strategy 1 : learn prefixes and roots; title: Vocabulary strategy 2 : learn suffixes; title: Essential word list for grades 3, 4, 5; title: Sentence completion strategy 1 : try all of the choices; title: Sentence completion strategy 2 : look for clues and key words; title: Sentence completion exercises and explanatory answers; title: Reading comprehension (two strategies); title: Reading passages, questions, and explanatory answers; title: Writing ability, punctuation, capitalization, English expression, choosing the right word; title: Math strategies : a note to parents; title: Basic math strategies; title: Math strategy 1 : know how to approach solutions to math questions; title: Math strategy 2 : use math symbols for words; title: Math strategy 3 : know when and how to approximate; title: Math strategy 4 : try specific numbers; title: Math strategy 5 : start with last choice when testing choices; title: Math strategy 6 : use visual thinking quantitative comparison; title: Quantitative comparison strategy 1 : cancel numbers common to both columns; title: Quantitative comparison strategy 2 : to simplify, you can multiply, divide, add, or subtract the same number in both columns; title: Quantitative comparison strategy 3 : use common sense to answer questions; title: Math refresher/review (essential math skills); title: Math words, concepts, and rules your child should know; title: Math shortcuts your child should know; title: The fifty basic math problems for grades 3, 4, 5; title: Solutions to the fifty basic math problems.