Teach Students When to Make Educated Guesses 
Teach students how to make educated guesses utilizing other test-taking strategies. Make sure they employ the process of elimination as a first option. This may increase their odds of answering correctly, even if they ultimately must guess on a final answer. If there are five answers, guessing from all choices will produce a correct answer only 20% of the time. If they can reduce the number of possible correct answers to two, their odds increase to 50%. As a last resort, students can look for answers that do not “fit” or seem out of context. Demonstrate the use of word prefixes, suffixes, and roots to make intelligent guesses about unknown terms.
- Grade Levels K - 2
- Grade Levels 3 - 5
- Grade Levels 6 - 8
- Grade Levels 9 - 12
- Kinesthetic Learner
- Visual Learner
- Auditory Learner
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