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What does test preparation look like for you? Asking yourself this question is the first step in becoming a better test-taker.

While virtually everyone has a different approach to test-taking, there are certain common success strategies that are probably familiar to you from years of taking tests: getting plenty of sleep, eating "brain" food (including a hearty breakfast during the day of the test), exercising, etc.

These strategies do matter - they make a huge difference in terms of how you feel on the day of the test and whether your basic needs are met - but they don't necessarily reflect your ability to remember important information during tests. It is this ability to hold information, and then remember it later, that most powerfully impacts your capacity for test success.

This short assessment (only 10 questions) identifies useful strategies for test-taking, and then gauges the degree to which you are (or are not) capitalizing on those strategies. It can be a good entrance point into thinking critically about your test-taking practices - and what you can do to improve them.

Test-Taking Assessment