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" Gruber's essential guide to test taking. "
Gary Gruber.
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BL
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1032665
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b787035
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Essential guide to test taking for kids
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Gruber, Gary R.
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Gruber's essential guide to test taking.\ Gary Gruber.
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Naperville, Ill. :: Sourcebooks,, ©2008.
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160 pages :: illustrations ;; 29 cm
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1402211856
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: 9781402211850
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"Originally published in 1986 by William Morrow and Company, Inc."--Title page verso.
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| Contents
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Introduction to parents -- A word about the psychology of working with your child -- What parents should know about standardized tests -- General test-taking skills -- Verbal strategies : analogies -- Analogy strategy : always put analogies in sentence form -- Most common types of analogy -- Practice exercises and explanatory answers -- Vocabulary strategy 1 : learn prefixes and roots -- Vocabulary strategy 2 : learn suffixes -- Essential word list for grades 3, 4, 5 -- Sentence completion strategy 1 : try all of the choices -- Sentence completion strategy 2 : look for clues and key words -- Sentence completion exercises and explanatory answers -- Reading comprehension (two strategies) -- Reading passages, questions, and explanatory answers -- Writing ability, punctuation, capitalization, English expression, choosing the right word -- Math strategies : a note to parents -- Basic math strategies -- Math strategy 1 : know how to approach solutions to math questions -- Math strategy 2 : use math symbols for words -- Math strategy 3 : know when and how to approximate -- Math strategy 4 : try specific numbers -- Math strategy 5 : start with last choice when testing choices -- Math strategy 6 : use visual thinking quantitative comparison -- Quantitative comparison strategy 1 : cancel numbers common to both columns -- Quantitative comparison strategy 2 : to simplify, you can multiply, divide, add, or subtract the same number in both columns -- Quantitative comparison strategy 3 : use common sense to answer questions -- Math refresher/review (essential math skills) -- Math words, concepts, and rules your child should know -- Math shortcuts your child should know -- The fifty basic math problems for grades 3, 4, 5 -- Solutions to the fifty basic math problems.
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Examinations, Study guides.
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Test-taking skills.
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Examinations.
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Test-taking skills.
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372.126
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LB3060.57.G77 2008
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Essential guide to test taking
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: Test taking
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