Guided Academics Tools
- Studying for Tests: Teens Health You just heard you have a math test on Friday — the same day as your big history test and weekly quiz on Spanish verbs. Are they crazy? How will you get all your studying done?Don't panic. Teens Health is a website that gives visitors some secrets to good studying. If you follow them, you'll be able to take all three tests with confidence.
http://kidshealth.org/teen/school_jobs/school/test_terror.html?tracking=T_RelatedArticle
- Test Taking Skills: Brain Pop - Big test today? Don’t stress! Let the characters help you figure out how to perform your best in this BrainPOP movie on test-taking skills! Find out the best way to prepare for a test, plus two ways to start off your test day right. You’ll also learn some specific test-taking strategies, like how to attack multiple-choice questions, and what to do if you can’t figure the answer out right away. You’ll also figure out a line of attack for essay questions, and learn about some key words to look for when planning your answer. Finally, see what to do when you’re finished taking the test.
http://www.brainpop.com/english/studyandreadingskills/testtakingskills/preview.weml
- Test Taking: Test Taking Tips - Studying is only a part of getting good results on your exam. No matter how hard you study as a student, if you don't know how to go about taking a test, whether multiple choice or essay, you won't score the highest possible mark. The website, Test Taking Tips provides visitors with specific test taking strategies, skills, and techniques.
http://www.testtakingtips.com/test/index.htm
- Test Taking: Study Guides and Strategies - When you take a test, you are demonstrating your ability to understand course material or perform certain tasks. Successful test taking avoids carelessness. The Study Guides and Strategies website provides test taking strategies for objective (true-false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank) and subjective (short answer, essay, and oral) tests.
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak1.htm
- Flashcards: Brain Flips Flashcards are a time-tested learning tool for studying nearly any subject. Brain Flips flashcards take this model and extend using the latest technology to make learning with flashcards fun and effective. Brain Flips provides the world’s best tools for creating, sharing and study flashcards! Make flashcards on any subject and share them with your friends and classmates. Brain Flips flashcards can incorporate text, images, audio and videos.
http://www.brainflips.com/
- Flashcards: Study Stack takes online flashcards to a whole new level. The site automatically creates many other activities based on the data from your flashcards. These activities have two main benefits. The first is that studying won't be so boring. So without even realizing it you'll naturally study more. The second benefit is that by reviewing the data in several different formats, you'll end up memorizing the information better as your brain makes several different connections with the data.
http://www.studystack.com/
- Flashcards: Flashcard Machine - The Flashcard Machine is a free service for creating interactive web-based study flashcards to help students study for tests, quizzes, and exam.
Also, take time to browse the Flashcard Machine library. This library contains ready to use flashcards to specific subjects and topics that may be useful.
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/
- Quizlet: Quizlet is the easiest way to study, practice and master what you’re learning. Create your own flashcards or choose from millions created by other students and teachers.
- Brainly is a knowledge-sharing community where 150 million teachers, students, and experts put their heads together to provide assistance on various subjects. Tutorials are also available.