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hello everybody
we're gonna go ahead and start glad that you're here
and hopefully when we're done you'll be glad you were here too
uh... this is uh... how to predict test questions i'm gonna explain that in a minute
but i wanted to say one thing before i start uh... the next five workshops starting today
all have
that word in the title
and a lot of students are good students
except when they take tests then they're not so good
and so uh... whether you're able to come to all five or as many as you can i'm gonna
try to give you all kinds of ideas of how to prepare for tests right
how to take tests well
what to do if you get nervous during a test to
think again all those things so those are all coming up in these next weeks
this is what we're gonna talk about today primarily but before i even get into that
i wanted to ask you a question and this is kind of a strange question for me to start
but i'm going to do it anyway
if you were taking a college class especially a difficult one and your teacher
passed out the test to you
two or three days before the real test and give you ten minutes or so to look through
the questions
would that be a helpful thing
yeah i assume so is that ever going to happen
probably not so today is kind of like the next best thing in a way
uh my goal with this is to help you realize that you can actually read and study your
text books in a different way than most people do
that starts to get you inside the mind of the teacher
that's a scary place to be sometimes inside the mind of the teacher
but to try to anticipate or predict
what test questions you'll see on the real thing if you can learn to do that
you'll know the answer to em because you will have studied them ahead of time and that's to your
advantage so that's what we're going to go through
so uh... out of these three ideas or techniques the one we're gonna start with and we're actually
going to spend the most time on
is this first one here and before i uh... teach this to you and i'm gonna give you a
handout sort of show you how it works
uh... i want to tell you a little story a little illustration
when one of my two daughters was very little about
three four five years old
she was the world champion of something
and when you have the world champion living in your house that's pretty nice it's the best
in the whole world
um... except that what she was the world champion of was
question asking
and if you've ever been around small children of a certain age they drive everyone crazy
around them asking questions
and it drives you crazy if you get that but actually it's a wonderful quality for a child
to have they're so hungry
to learn about everything they don't know anything and one of the main ways that children
learn
is by asking questions
my daughter would be walking with me
she would see someone crossing the street
and she would say
who is that where is he going why is he wearing that questions all the time
she could ask twenty or thirty questions at about two minutes and i'm a very patient
person
but everybody has their limit
and one time just to show you how often she asked questions
she had asked me about twenty or thirty questions in the last five minutes and we were at our
at home
and um...
i asked for something very politely
i said daddy needs a little break
for a few minutes
uh... i have something i have to do so could you do me a favor and go to your room and
play with all those toys i bought you
and then you can come back later and you could ask me more questions
very polite way of saying right
well instead of saying
okay and then running down the hall what do you think she said
yeah she said why and i said
another question
questions all the time and uh...
what we want
and that's what this is designed to do is to get you to be like a little child again
most children are
likes sponges and they just are so excited to learn everything
when they become adults
bad things happen
to at least most people they lose most of the curiosity they had when they were little
i'll use this as an example can i borrow this book for a second this is about
the scariest book i know so i'll use this
okay when was the last time you walked up to a textbook to open it up to read it before
you even opened it said
i can't wait to see what's in here today
okay nobody does this uh people say uh never
uh... what do you do you say what page
i hope this isn't too boring or too hard i gotta show on in a half hour whatever so
it's like punishment to sit and read the book for a lot of people
well i don't know if i could ever get you where you're so excited that you wake up in
the morning thinking where's a textbook
that would be pretty good if i could do that but if i could even get it part way that way
that would be good and that's what i'm going for okay so
uh... the first one again is asking questions but its specifically of
chapter headings
is this going to work in every textbook that you have the answer is no it depends on the
subject if you have an english book that has lots of stories in novels or whatever
uh...this doesn't apply but if you're in a regular kind of class kinda like that one
that has a lot of factual information that's presented it's got a lot of headings and sub
headings in it
this should work really well you just have to practice it and learn how to do it so that's what i'm gonna
show you um but the first thing
that i want to draw is a little diagram and i'm actually going to give you a handout that
shows this in a second but i just want you to
kinda get the idea of how this works first
normally when somebody uses this technique what they do is they get out of sheet of notebook
paper and they draw a line right across the middle
and the reason you do that is because you don't need usually a whole piece of paper
for this you only need a half and then you can do another one
down here so it saves a little
paper little space
and then uh... you're gonna end up writing some information on the sides and then starting
to write in the middle that's kind of the format so i want to show you what this looks
like
and i'm gonna be asking you a few questions
in a couple of minutes and i want you to see if you can come up with answers since we're talking
about asking questions i'm gonna ask you a few
okay now before we go through this um what's the first word you see at the very top of
this page
active right what's the opposite of active
yeah passive inactive or there's one other word starts with l lazy most
students when they read textbooks are very lazy
and it doesn't look like that cause if i walked up to you and you have the book open and you're
leaning over it looks like you're being very active but
up here who knows what's going on and this is again supposed to try and fix that
so as you look between the dotted lines here
you see this little form which is what you would actually write on your notebook paper
so you would write the name of the textbook
the chapter the page number especially the big bold print heading that you see
on that page okay and then
the most important part of this is along the left side
those six words you see there that everybody knows
these are the six best friends of the learner that's kinda what they're called
who what where when why and how you just write them out
and then again you're gonna do the same thing down here and so that's what you do to
sort of prepare it
okay then here's a quick question for you uh... what is more what's the goal of most
people
when they open up
their textbook and start reading
say again
yeah what what is it supposed to be
it's to
learn and master and memorize and under all that's good
for most people the open it up and they think
how long is this going to take
can i stay awake till it's done and their goal is to just finish
it's not a very good goal but that's what it is for a lot of people
well this is giving you a new goal that's way better
then that and so what you do
is when you and let me ask this to when you're reading a textbook okay let me draw
a little book here and you've got a heading here and you got a heading over here
when you read through this material and you get to here and you
can start something new
what do most people do as soon as they read the heading
yeah they
keep reading why it's because they're trying to get to the end
right so they just read
read read read that's way most people do it
well this is asking you to stop
and not do that
so here's way we do it you read through whatever you're reading and then when you get to a
brand new heading instead of reading
you stop for about two to three minutes this is all this is supposed to take so it's quick
and what you're supposed to do
and that's where this comes in
is you're supposed to brainstorm
by looking at the heading that you've written right here
and coming up with questions that start with who what where when why and how
that might be answered when you actually read that okay and so to show you kind of what
this looks like i want you to turn over to the back side of the paper
and you'll see an example of something that's basically done at least this first part
um... this is from an accounting textbook
and the... uh... chapter four page one eighteen big bold print heading at the top that said
preparing the worksheets so the next few
pages were all about that in a teaching a student that
rather then reading it and then just starting to read about it
this person did what i just described they took a couple of minutes and wrote down every
question they could think of
that might be answered when they read that little section so they started with who and
they thought ok who
preparing the worksheet
well who's supposed to prepare a worksheet
and then they thought well who uses it once it's prepared
and then they couldn't think of any other who questions so they went to what and when
you're doing this you don't have to go in order you just kinda
brainstorm whatever pops in your head that's what you write down
are you going to find the answer to all these questions when you read that section
yeah hardly ever right because you don't know anything except just
the heading so you're just sort of thinking out loud and writing down everything you think
of really fast
um... after two or three minutes
you're ready to read
okay and how many questions are you actually going to come up with
i have no idea
but people who have done this before have shown it to me and sometimes they've come
up with
three or four questions
in three minutes
that's not brainstorming that's like a little drizzle
not very much other people have shown me and they've done fifteen questions
almost as fast as they could write
the more you do this the faster you get at it cause your brain starts working that way in
this little example that we're looking at this person came up with ten questions
there's nothing special about that number it's just how many they came up with
okay so
after
you do this
then you start reading the section so now here's the most important question about all
this
we said before that the goal of most people was to finish
when you do this first and then you start reading what's your goal now that's a lot
better
yeah find the answers to your questions ok and so
there one of the things i always like to go through because i think it motivates
people
is that there are three
benefits to doing this method
that usually make it better than just reading and then closing the book
and if you know what those are hopefully you'll be motivated to do them
the first one has to do with what i just described and that is
that if you do this right
it helps you to concentrate better
and anything that you do that helps you concentrate better on your reading is a really good thing
to do
because it's hard to concentrate
ok why would this help you concentrate better
well most people again are just trying to make it through the chapter and sort of learn
what they can but their mind tends to wander because they're just sort of
trying to go through it
when you do it this way
you have the questions right next to you
and as you're reading you're going to find the answer to one of them and you'll think
that one right there
and then later on that's that one and so you have something particular that you're looking
for when you read
that makes even the most boring book in the world a lot more interesting because you have
a point when you read and so it helps you focus better
okay so that's the first one
now uh...
question for you about this as you're reading through this material let's say that you find
the answer to this question
right there in the book
what do you do
write it down where do you write it
yeah there are a lot of things you could do but i want to show you what i would suggest
and it's because it's related to this next benefit
if you find the answer to this question
you say there it is right there you turn the page over
it's blank back there 'cause this is a piece of notebook paper and write on the other side
you write the answer
and then you go back you find the answer to this one you write it here so all the answers
go directly on the back side of the paper okay
and the reason that that's important is because of this
anytime you use anything while you're reading if it doesn't do this then it was a waste
of time so this is supposed to do this it provides you with
a good study tool
let's say that you get to the end of this section of the book these few pages and you
go back and you say okay i got that one
i got that one
i didn't get that one
i got that one and you're kind of checking let's say that out of these ten questions you come
up with an answer to six of 'em
the other four
were stupid questions but you didn't know that at the time or they were good questions
but they're just not answered there so you just
cross them out
well now you have six questions here and six answers back here
how are you going to study this
to get ready for your big test
what are you going to do with it
yeah you're gonna test yourself like
flashcards uh... you have to make flash cards because it's already in that form so you're
looking at the question
and you're trying to test yourself
one of the things that's true about all of these things plus some other activities that
i give you in other workshops is
the best thing you can ever do while studying is test yourself
a lot
before the teacher tests you
that way you find out
the worst time ever for you to find out you don't know something as well as you thought
is when you're sitting there taking the test
boy i thought i knew that
oh boy thought i knew that too that's a bad feeling
it's better to find out two days before the test when you're testing yourself at home
when you realize wow i don't know that because then you have time to fix it
before you go take the real test
that's the design of this ok and so
even if your questions on your real tests are not like this they're not like little
short answer they may be multiple choice or true false
it doesn't matter
you're learning the information here okay
and so that's the second benefit and then the third one
is this this is the final payoff and that is that it helps you
on the test
and that's good that's kinda what you want and so i wanna ask you this i've had this
happen to me personally i've had a lot of students tell me this so i want to see if you can
figure this out
if you do what i just showed you here and you've worked through your chapter and
come up with questions and answers
when you get to the real test and the teacher hands you the test and you start reading the
questions and answering them
what do you think you're gonna see every once in awhile when you read the questions
yeah you're gonna see some of yours
it's a weird feeling to be taking a test and read a question and think oh yeah
i wrote that
it's odd okay
but when you recognize a question on the test as one that you wrote is that good news
yeah i hope
unless you did'nt study right because i know that
cause you know the answer it's on the back of your little study sheet that you used
and so even if you're test has fifty questions on it
and you recognize only ten of them as being exactly what you wrote
that's ten more than everybody else in the room
who just read the material and stared at it and hoped that they would remember it
and so it gives you an advantage over everybody
most people who do this
when they see questions on the test every once in awhile that look exactly like the
ones they wrote
their first thought they always tell me they have about one second only one second where
they feel guilty like they're cheating
like they got to see the questions ahead of time
but that passes really fast
because it's not cheating
and they just oh i got that
yeah i know that one
and so if you've studied and you've also done this
gives you an advantage because you're trying to again
think in questions and answers when you study instead of just staring at the material
and hoping that you remember it
now one last thing specifically about this is that a lot of students understand this
when i teach it and say yeah i bet that would be good
but their number one uh... complaint i guess if you want to call it that
is time they say that i barely have enough time to read my chapters let alone sit there and write
out all these questions and answers it seems like you've never sleep again if you do this
it would take
hours every day
actually it doesn't
it takes a little more time for you to do this than it does to read the obviously straight
through but
uh... what to most people find when they finish reading a chapter and they go back over it
and terms of how much they remember
yeah not much so what do they have to do often
they have to read it again sometimes even like three times well if you do it this way
normally all you have to do is read the chapter once
and then go back and study it this way
and so doing this takes a little longer while you're doing it but it saves time later
and it's not that you can necessarily do this with every text book and with every heading
and every chapter
but the more you do it the more you start thinking like the teacher does and coming
up with those questions and answers
um... the other thing i wanted to say about this is that uh... as i mentioned a few minutes
ago
most people who start doing this tell me that at
first it's a little bit slow
their brainstorming isn't working too well
but the more they do it
their brain starts
going faster and faster and pretty soon
they can think of so many questions they almost can't write them down fast enough
it's kind of like their training their brain
to think this way
and my favorite little final example and then we're gonna move on to this next one
is this
uh... i had a student a few years ago
who uh... told me
later in the semester after i taught this
he said uh...
you know when you taught that thing about the who what where when why and how uh...
he said i'd kinda like that idea because i was the laziest reader in the world
i would read something and close the book and i had no idea what i just read
and i started doing that and it really helped
and it helped me to concentrate i studied better i got better grades and whenever i
hear that that's really encouraging i say that's good to hear except
after he said all those nice things about it
he said this believe it or not he said but
you've ruined my life
and i say well that's not good i don't want to do that so i said how did i do that and what he
said
was really good made me laugh even though
i don't know he was saying it that way he said um... i got so used to this
doing this that
now when i'm walking down the street
and i pass a newspaper stand
and i look and i see the headline in the newspaper
he said something terrible happens
andwhat do you think that would be
yeah he asks questions like a little child like i said at the very beginning so he looks
and it says senate passes bill
and in the past he would have just looked at that and thought whatever
but now as he's walking away
what's the bill who wrote it when does it take effect
who does it affect and he can't turn it off
and i told him if that's the way i ruined your life
i'm so happy
because all of us should be a lot more like that so again
this is sort of uh... an artificial
forced way to get you like a child again
thinking and being all curious
and so many of us have lost that by the time we get to be even teenagers and so this is
a way to do it okay so this is uh first idea any questions
on this one
uh... we we kind of skipped through little parts of this handout you can feel free to read
the whole thing later and it will kinda i guess review a little of what we went through
okay so the second one which we're going to spend most of the rest of the time on
has to do with uh... creating your own study quizzes
and a lot of times when i bring up this topic
people look at me and they say didn't you just teach us how to do that
because that's what i just did was teach you how to come up with questions
who what where when why how
but this is a little different
this has to do with chapter headings this has to do with all the stuff in the chapter
all the actual facts that appear under that
so what i want to do is i wanna um... give you a page
that is from a real college textbook and i'm gonna use this to
sort of illustrate a couple of things to you about how you could read textbooks
differently than the way that you might now again it's just trying to get you more active thinking
more
and coming up with uh some good study techniques that's the whole point of this
okay so
this is from
a textbook in what subject
uh...
that was from
that's right
yeah so yeah so related to this
has anybody here ever taken an astronomy class before
yeah that's why i picked this because most people look at this and say
i've never seen any thing looking like this and that means we are all starting sort of from scratch
which is what i want
now i want you to imagine for about the next ten or fifteen minutes and i know this is
a big jump for u but i want you to imagine this
you are no longer a student so congratulations you graduated
and you're not only not a student anymore you're a teacher
and not only are you a teacher you're an astronomy teacher
so that's a big jump for almost everybody in here okay
uh... if you were an astronomy teacher
and
this is in your book that you assigned to your students
and
you wanna test them
on how well they learned this
what you have to do is what teachers to everyday which is to look at all the information and
turn it into
questions created to take the test
if you can learn to do that just as well as a teacher it's going to be a big advantage
to you when you study so that's what i want to show you now
uh... at the very top of this page
you see a table or a chart
with four planets and different spacecraft's that we've sent uh... quite a few years ago
to kind of fly by those who take pictures and explor em then
under where it says jupiters outer layers you have all of these facts all these details so
first thing i want to show you about this is that in my experience working with students
the two easiest kind of questions for a student to learn how to make for themselves
quickly
are these
fill-in the blank and
true false
you can make up a multiple choice question you could make up an essay question but
those take a little bit longer and so i want to show you these
even if your questions in your tests your classes are not fill in or true false
again it doesn't matter you still learn the material
so i'm wanna show you a couple of examples of this and ask you to help me with this if
you take a look at the very first sentence on the page right under jupiter's outer layers
i want to read this to you
and then i want to ask you something
it says the first close-up look at jupiter was provided by pioneers ten and eleven
in december nineteen seventy three and december nineteen seventy four respectively
so that's just
one sentence
put your teacher hat on for a second
if you wanted to create a fill-in the blank
statement
where one word is taken out and a blank is put in it's place
from that sentence
what you would have to do which is pretty simple is look back at the sentence we just read
and ask yourself this
what word is very important
in that sentence
and so there isn't jsut one there are several possibilities but what's an important word in
there
jupiter
provided might be what else
first what else uh... yeah that could be uh...dates could be ecetera so if you made up
and wrote down a tru i mean fill-in the blank statement about this
one example of it would be this
pioneers ten and eleven provided the first close-up look at blank
and then you're done they have a question
or
the first close-up look at jupiter was provided by blank
ten and eleven
or other possibilities as well
so to create a fill-in question you don't have to think of a question like pull it out
of the air
you just take what's there and write it again
and leave a word out and put a blank in its place
that's about as easy as it gets okay
i want to show you one other example of this and then i'll show you this and then i'm gonna
put you to work on something for a couple minutes if you look at the middle paragraph
over on this side
i want you to look at the first sentence of that paragraph
the first three words you can kind of ignore where it says as previously mentioned so you
need to worry about that but look at the rest of that sentence
and i want to ask you the same question
after i've read it and that is
what word are you going to take out and put a blank in its place so again this says
the chemical composition of jupiter is very similar to that of the sun
about ninety eight percent hydrogen and helium
now i see all kinds of test question possibilities in there so what would be something that you
could take out that would be important
hydrogen
or helium what else
something related to that what else
the percentage numbers are always easy for teachers
take that out you could also take out sun or similar lots of choices right so for a fill in
this blank statement here's what one would sound like
the chemical composition of jupiter is very similar to that of the blank
and that's it okay
then
as we can also say the chemical composition of jupiter is about blank percent hydrogen
and helium
or about ninety eight percent blank and helium
ectera again all these possibilities
so usually once you started to do this even a few times it becomes very simple because
you know how to do it again it's nothing complicated
then when it comes to true false here's the other question
how do you create a true statement
to write down as a little test question out of something in a text book what do you have
to do
supposed to be the easiest thing ever
yeah find a fact and
write it ta-da you're done ok so same sentence over here you can say
the chemical composition of jupiter is very similar to that of the sun
true or false
and you're done
so again that's in the easiest thing ever now here's the most fun one
how do you make one of those
yeah you lie
that's what you do and usually you get in trouble in life when you lie but this is one of those
times you don't you changed something so i want to see how good a liar you are okay
take a look at that same sentence we've been looking at and what would you change or lie
about that would be a really good
false statement
yeah one of the things a lot of people come up with is the chemical composition of jupiter
is not very similar to that in the sun
so it's just the opposite of what it says so that's good what else besides that
yeah the number and listen to this don't even look at your paper just look up here for a
second listen to how true this sounds the chemical composition of jupiter is about eighty
nine percent hydrogen and helium
you look at that and say ok
sounds right to me
lie right wrong number ok what else can you change
right so you can say um chemical composition of jupiters about ninety eight percent hydrogen and
oxygen
like that
so that's how you create a false statement so all of these once you again just practice them
a few times they start coming really easily and most pages of most text books that
have lots of information on it
you can find so many questions all over the place that might end up being on the test
in one form or another and again that's the whole point is you're trying to predict or sort of
anticipate those
so what i want to do for just a couple of minutes
is to put you to work on something okay and i know that you haven't read this
okay and we've only looked at two sentences on the whole page
but i want to give you a little test
and you can relax totally because you're not gonna hand it in to me this would be the
the most relaxed you'll ever be in your life taking a test
and i know that you won't know the answers to most of these because we haven't read the
page yet but what i want you to do is be a detective
and i'm gonna give you about three or four minutes and all i want you to do is look back-and-forth
from this to this
and see how many of the answers to these you can find in the time that i give i don't
think anyone will be able to find all of them but even if you could find four or five or
six
that would be good
and the reason i want you to do this is not to learn about jupiter but it's so you can
kind of see how the questions were created
that's the whole point
ten fill-in the blank
three true false and two multiple choice fifteen questions from one page
so you'd be happy i'm not your astronomy teacher cuz i if we had a thirty page chapter that would be
four hundred fifty questions
that would be scary right so want you again to take this
and start lookin around alright i'm gonna go ahead and uh... stop you there again whether
you've got a lot of answers or just a few that's ok either way
uh... normally when you do something like this
you wouldn't do it the way we just did it you would create some questions and type 'em
up or write 'em out and then after you've read the material you go back and test yourself
and maybe even make copies of it and test yourself several times until you learned it
but i wanted you again whenever you find an answer you think oh there it is
right there and that's again how you learn how to make these i'm gonna give you the answers
to these
and uh...again you're never gonna need to know this ever in your life for in
unless you take an astronomy class
but i just want to see how you did on this the first one is ten
number two is sixteen sixty four
number three is earth
four is six
uh... number five is the
spelling word for the day which is equatorial
number six is detail
seven
you all should have known that one because we looked at that one what is the
answer for that
sun right and then number eight is saturn
number nine is fifty thousand
ten is
another one you should know and that's helium
and then number one under the true false did anybody get that one
yeah it's true and actually says that directly right how about number two
is false what did it say on the page
it says that the ring is thin
so i put thick opposite of it right and then how about number three
anybody get that
that was also false it actually says right there on the page
jupiter's atmosphere does not rotate as a solid unit so again i gave you the opposite
then under the multiple-choice number one is d
and number two is a
okay and again
regardless of how many you've got that was just to show you how those kind of core questions
are created okay
and so uh to follow up on this and for the last little teaching of the day
i want to talk to you just for a couple minutes
about studying thank you with a partner or group didanybody else miss the sign in sheet or
did it get to everybody
okay good
gonna do this now so i can uh...
okay so i'll
let these teachers know how many of you have ever studied for a test with
another person or a small group
okay a few of you
how did it work was it helpful not helpful
yeah uh... you know what some people have said
really helpful other people
they don't even say anything
they got together at somebody's house
the snacks were wonderful
they sample every snack in the whole house they spent half the time complaining about
the teacher and then they left saying thanks this was great and then as they walk away
they thought we didn't even really do anything
other times it works
i'm gonna give you one idea it's not the only one but it's worked well for students in the
past about how you can study with one other person or a small group and here's what it
is
let's say that your teacher today in your class
gives you uh the information that you have a test coming up two three four weeks down the line
and that it's going to cover chapters eight thru ten and in your book along with the lectures that
they do
one thing that we could do that would be very smart this way would be this for example let's
say that the three of us were in a class together
we run to each other right after class on the day that this is announced and we say
something like this
i'll take chapter eight you take nine and you take ten
okay so we make that little plan and then we make a date
to get together to study may be a day or two before the...
real test
okay now
if we do that we have these three chapters right and they're assigned to individual people
this is my chapter right here so my job between that day and the time we meet
is to go home and read this chapter really carefully and do one other thing with it
what would that be
do what i've just shown you which is to create uh... quiz
type it up
make like ten copies of it on one of the copies right answer key at the top and write in all
the answers whether they're multiple-choice or true false or whatever okay
what are they supposed to do
same exact thing they better with their chapters right 'cause this is our deal and then when
we come together for our study session
the very first thing we do is we pull out copies of our little quiz that we made and
i give one to you
one to you and one for myself i have to take mine and then they do the same so we just
kind of like the teacher for a minute handing out the test
and then we
sit there quietly for five ten fifteen minutes whatever and we take all the little quizzes
when we're done we hand back to the person who brought it
they pull out their answer key and turn back into the teacher for a minute and correct them
and then hand'em back
all that's very simple to do okay once we're done with that
how do we spend the rest of our time together
instead of just sort of where's the where are the snacks or what should we do whatever which
people say all the time
we're gonna start with my chapter cause it's the first one and so i'd say this okay question
number one on my little quiz
she says correct
he says correct
i say correct
we all got it right
so what do we do
uh... we don't need to talk about it
we're all clear on it
so go to number two how bout though this will have a lot habit if one of us misses it
and the other two get it right
than what do we do yeah we discuss it and you know how we discuss it one of the best
ways you can ever study is to explain something to somebody else
so let's say the two of us got this first one right and he got it wrong
we explain it to him
later on she's going to be the only one that missed one
sometime i'm gonna be the only one so everbody will have their turn so we get to sort
of teach each other those things
okay when we're done
and we've gone through all of these then the good thing to do is i mentioned making
like ten copies
and people say why would you make ten copies with you only have a couple people
it's so that you can give each person two or three other ones that they could take home
and practice again take again
and so by doing this instead of you having to make up all these quizzes on the whole
chapters
you get to split up the work
and if i came up with a quiz that had fifteen questions and the two of them did to then
all of us would have forty-five
potential test questions to keep practicing before we walked in to take the test
and i know that at least some of those would show up on the real test
which again would be an advantage okay and then one last thing about this
before i go into our study session together how much of this do i need to have read
yeah all of that and some people say ahh.. all of it
they got excited for a second thinking i just have to read one of the three chapters
and then everybody else can teach me the rest there's a good way to get an f on any test
you ever take
the reason that i have to read all three of these is because i'm gonna take a test that
they give me and the whole purpose of those tests is to say this
our test is tomorrow or it's the next day i've studied and i think
i'm ready
am i really
only one way to find out and that is take the test
so if i don't take the test if i just read my chapter and half of hers and i don't even
read his
it's a waste of time for me to even go to the sessions can get like a dress rehearsal
before the real test
uh... so you still have to do all the work with the reading but you only have to make
a quiz out of one chapter and remember that little quiz that i gave you how many
questions wrong there again
it was
fifteen
out of how many pages
one so if you were looking through a chapter and trying to come up with fifteen or twenty questions
it doesn't take a lot of time and usually all you have to do is find bold print words
and then turn those in to questions and you can come up with
fifty questions from a chapter usually or a hundred but all you're doing is like maybe
fifteen or twenty
and then once you end up with that you're helping other people you are helping yourself
kind of good all the way around
okay so that's a one idea it's not the only way to study with a group or partner but
it's worked well for people in the past and they can even eat snacks while they're doing
that
but at least they get a lot done and that's the whole purpose okay
alright uh... were done so i will uh... contact your teachers later thanks for coming and again
next week we're gonna talk about how to spend the last few days before a test the smartest way
so that when you walk in there you're ready to go and perform well that's
the goal for next week