PRAXIS I PREPARATION TIPS

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PRAXIS I PREPARATION TIPS

• Created by Peter Osborne, Resident
  AssistantUniversity of Maine at Farmington
• I would like to submit this bulletin board I
  created for education preparing to take the
  Praxis I exam. This exam is required in many
  states for any student wishing to enter a teacher
  education program and is a source of great stress
  for many education students at colleges all over
  the country!

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PRAXIS I PREPARATION TIPS

• Your Guide to ACING the Test!

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Dont answer too quickly!

• Make sure to read through all of the answer
  choices before picking an answer!
• Often one choice will seem correctuntil you
  examine the others more closely!

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PACE Yourself!

• Bring a watch to the test to make sure that you
  work at a reasonable pace!
• Remember that the test is timedmake sure that
  you know how long each is and how long it leaves
  for each question!

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Be in good mental and physical condition for the
test!

• Be well-rested for the test, so that you can stay
  calm and focused!
• Eat a healthy breakfast to avoid hunger pangs
  that lead to distraction!
• Dont stay up the night before to cramits not
  worth it!

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If you dont knowalways guess!

• Only your correct answers are used to determine
  your score!
• If you dont know an answer, use your powers of
  deduction to eliminate less likely answers and
  then guessit cant hurt!

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PRAXIS I Math

• Reacquaint yourself with (and memorize) basic
  math formulas and their variablesneither will be
  listed on the test!
• FOCUS ON Geometric shapes and basic equations
  and formulas.

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PRAXIS I Reading

• Practice technical reading by checking out
  science journals and magazines and focus on
  comprehending the big ideas (and some important
  details!)
• READ each passage (not just skim), and pick out
  the main ideas and relationships within each
  passage.

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PRAXIS I Writing

• The writing section requires a strong
  understanding of sentence structure the
  placement of direct and indirect objects, for
  example, and the basic parts of speech.
• Being able to identify all the aspects of a
  sentence is the only way to ensure that you are
  able to rule out all incorrect answers!

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For more info

• http//www.praxisprepinfo.com
• http//www.petersons.com/testprep/
• Educational Testing Service (administers the
  PRAXIS Exams)
• http//www.ets.org/
• UMF Center for Human Development
• http//chd.umf.maine.edu/Praxis/praxisI.php/
• Also check out CHDs extensive resource library
  for paper versions of PRAXIS test-prep guides and
  resources!

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• This bulletin board was created for an
  Education-themed floor for the month of November,
  when many freshmen sign up to take the PRAXIS I!