How to Do Your Best on Tests

by Sara D. Gilbert

Book Overview

This invaluable guide to studying covers everything students need to know about tests, including how to study for quizzes, tests, and exams and how to prepare for all the major standardized tests -- from the CAT to the Stanford Achievement Tests. Crammed with practical tips and sound advice -- plus a wide range of sample questions -- How To Do Your Best on Tests helps students approach every test with confidence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688160905
• ISBN13: 9780688160906
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Collins
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

In case you didn't know...

If you're reading this, it's no news to you that test-taking is a skill apart from learning. The better one knows the subject, the more likely that person will score well. But a second--and important--factor is how well one knows how to prepare for and take a test. This brief book provides a nitty-gritty compendium of such vital skills. I used this book in conjunction with the excellent, and broader, "What Smart Students Know" (Adam Robinson) to teach a small college orientation week class on school survival skills. This book is valuable in its directness and scope. At its price, it's really a "no-brainer" purchase (sorry, pun intended). (...)