NYSTCE Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) (202) secrets study guide
Subtitle: your key to exam success
By: written and edited by the Mometrix Exam Secrets Test Prep Team
Publisher: Mometrix Media LLC
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Beaumont, TX]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781630945732
Subjects: Teachers; Study guides; Certification; Examinations; Reading comprehension
Other titles: NYSTCE ALST secrets study guide; NYSTCE secrets
Description: " ... helps you ace the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive ... study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined ..."--Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Top 20 test taking tips; title: Reading; title: Writing to sources; title: Practice test. Practice questions ; Answers and explanations; title: Secret key #1. Time is your greatest enemy. Pace yourself; title: Secret key #2. Guessing is not guesswork. Monkeys take the test ; $5 challenge; title: Secret key #3. Practice smarter, not harder. Success strategy; title: Secret key #4. Prepare, don't procrastinate; title: Secret key #5. Test yourself; title: General strategies: Make predictions, Answer the question, benchmark, valid Information, avoid fact traps, milk the question, the trap of familiarity, Eliminate answers, Tough questions, Brainstorm, Read carefully, Face value, Prefixes, Hedge phrases, Switchback words, New Information, Time management, Contextual clues, Don't panic, Pace yourself, Answer selection, Check your work, Beware of directly quoted answers, Slang, Extreme statements, Answer choice families; title: Special report. How to overcome text anxiety: Lack of preparation, Physical signals, Study steps, Helpful techniques; title: Special report. Additional bonus material (http://www.mometrix.com/bonus948/nystcealst).