<p>Please share your strategies and the effectiveness, so maybe people, like me, can learn from them.
For me:
English: read the entire passages, answering the questions as I came to them-Im pretty sure I did pretty well on it. </p>
<p>Math: Pretty self explanatory- I think I did pretty good.</p>
<p>Readinhg: Read the passage as quickly as I could without looking at the questions before hand. Answer questions, looking back in passage to answer those unsure about. on third section, I couldn't concentrate on what I was reading cause I was rushing, so it took awhile to answer the questions, didnt have time to read fourth section so I guessed on half and made somewhat educated guesses based on searching for info on the other half. </p>
<p>Science: went straight to the questions on every section- nervous rushing kept me from answering questions quickly cause it made it hard to concentrate. Had to guess on probably 5 or 6. Some others I wasnt too confident about</p>
<p>Overall all, I think I did pretty good on english and math, but Im not too stoked about reading and science, to say the least.</p>
<p>English
I read the essays and answered the questions as they popped up. Occasionally, I would read ahead a few sentences in case I needed to base a decision on what followed in the paragraph.</p>
<p>Math
I found all the problems "easy" (within my ability to solve in a reasonable amount of time), so I just did them all in order.</p>
<p>Reading
I read the questions first, then read the passage. I read fast, but did not skim. If I came across something in the passage that I knew was an answer to a question, I immediately answered the question at that point and then continued with the passage. After finishing reading, I answered any unanswered questions.</p>
<p>Science
I read the entire passage, then I answered the questions, referring back to the graphs/text for basically every one. The reason is that I think having a good grasp of what's going on helps with most of the science questions (not all, of course), and some questions couldn't be answered without reading the text.</p>
<p>English: Pretty straightforward and easy. Never had a problem with it on the practice tests and didn't have any problems on the real thing. I just remembered to read the question fully and note the "NOT" questions.</p>
<p>Math: Again, pretty straightforward. Just reminded myself to read questions/answers carefully and double-check answers that have high possibility for stupid mistakes.</p>
<p>Reading: Read the questions first, then read the actual passage at fast pace and then move on to the questions. If I remembered a key question while reading the passage I made sure to answer it right then while I was in the middle of the reading. I made sure to keep at a FAST pace the whole time and not to slow down at all. </p>
<p>Science: Again, pretty straightforward. Read the passage, quickly skim the charts/data, go straight to questions.</p>
<p>Essay: Have a strong thesis, nice intro/conclusion, and be sure that I support my thesis well.</p>
<p>Well this is what worked for me:
English: Read all of the passage, not just the sentences which have the questions, but answer each question when you get to the corresponding sentence. It also helps to read maybe a sentence after the question sentence to give you a better understanding of the grammar that should be used</p>
<p>Math: Not much help I can offer here except get through all the problems as quickly as you can. Just make sure that when you use your calculator to solve the really easy problems, you don't make any mistakes that can cost you. Mark problems that you think you may have made a stupid mistake on and quickly rectify it.</p>
<p>Reading: Read the entire passage before you get to the questions, don't skim or anything. Read it as if you were reading a book for fun, try to derive meaning from every sentence. This way, you don't have to waste more time referring to the passage for each question (i guess this method works better if you are a really fast reader)</p>
<p>Science: Skim the opening passage and get to the graphs and tables. make sure you know what the data means and the units used. Read carefully.</p>
<p>English... Marked answers that I was even a bit unsure of, since it is the only section I actually have time to finish and double-check</p>
<p>Math... Short computations on paper but longer ones on calculator to prevent carelessness. Panicked near the end, I just did the ones I could then bubbled C or H for the rest.</p>
<p>Reading... Skim but read it hard. Finished this time but on the last test I did all questions that referred to a particular line or definition when time was fading</p>
<p>Science... I skip the entire passage and hit the questions. Most if not nearly all questions refer to figures/tables. With basic knowledge of physics, biology, and chem you probably won't need the passages to answer the questions. Though, this time, it looked like they expected testers to know their nuclear decay and cell biology..</p>
<p>English: I would just read the questions and then read a few sentances around the question to get the sentance in context. From there I would choose my best answer.</p>
<p>Math: Did them one by one and probably took too much time doing a too much work on paper...I would skip any that looked like they would require more work than most then came back to them. I forgot about the shorter time though and didn't completely finish :(</p>
<p>Reading: Read the passage thouroughly and underlined key phrases as I went through it. That worked EXTREMELY WELL. Went to the questions and remembered **** better than usual and if there were any specific details i didn't remember it was ussually underlined.</p>
<p>Science: Like the above...skip the data and go straight to the questions. From there it's just using the tables/results to determine your answers.</p>
<p>I feel like I did pretty good.. heres what i did
English: I just read the questions, and depending on the type of problem read ahead to see what they were getting at, not much too it really..
Math: I am good at Math, so I didn't have much trouble with the math portion, although I only finished with like 1 minute( not enough time to check my bubbling).
Reading- I went to the questions first, looked for any line number questions, then marked them off in the passage, and then read from the beginning going straight to the questions as I saw the line numbers marked off. Then after I had read the whole passage, I address the other problems with out line numbers.. sometimes I would see other problems while I was answering one of the line number problems, so I would go ahead and answer them too.
Science: No passages, No charts and skipped to the questions. Since I have a pretty strong Science background, I was able to figure out a general Idea of the passage, without going back and reading the passages( IE. The radioactive decay/fissure stuff). I would go back and read for a few main things, like definitions of data chart vocab and what not, but I never read the whole passage on any of them.</p>