Comments on: Bubbling: Avoid Mistakes in Your Answer Key http://blog.eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:44:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: bunny http://blog.eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/comment-page-1/#comment-119 bunny Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:14:54 +0000 http://eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/#comment-119 I wanna know how to get the scoring key on the 2008 january math B regents I wanna know how to get the scoring key on the 2008 january math B regents

]]> By: Karl http://blog.eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Karl Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:34:56 +0000 http://eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/#comment-118 Laila, Thanks for sharing your strategy. I think it is one that students should consider. I would encourage students to rely on their own stopwatches, however, and not on the proctors. I have heard too many horror stories about proctors messing up and inadvertently skipping the five-minute warning. The fact that you can usually reach the last problem with 5 minutes left is awesome. Thanks again for sharing your "bubbling" strategy. Karl Laila,

Thanks for sharing your strategy. I think it is one that students should consider. I would encourage students to rely on their own stopwatches, however, and not on the proctors. I have heard too many horror stories about proctors messing up and inadvertently skipping the five-minute warning.

The fact that you can usually reach the last problem with 5 minutes left is awesome. Thanks again for sharing your “bubbling” strategy.

Karl

]]> By: Laila http://blog.eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Laila Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:45:28 +0000 http://eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/#comment-117 That is a very good strategy, I might tell other people that I think would be more comfortable with it, as opposed to my strategy. My way of "bubbling," which I thought of after realizing the same thing, which is the possibility of bubbling in the incorrect answer merely as a result of multi-tasking, is to go through the entire section and marking the answers in the test booklet, and then bubbling in the answers. However, the way to avoid running out of time at the end, which is the primary concern with this method, is to stop answering when the proctor says that you have 5 minutes left (or if you have a stopwatch you may use that). By this time, I am usually on the last problem or done with it, and I know that I need to bubble in my answers. Now, it usually doesn't take 5 minutes to bubble in 20 questions, so I have time to go over my answers in the last couple of minutes. That way I am fully focused on the task at hand and don't have to worry about bubbling in answers until the end, when I am relaxed and I know that I have completed the section. I just thought I would share my strategy. I think this is a helpful site and keep up the good work! That is a very good strategy, I might tell other people that I think would be more comfortable with it, as opposed to my strategy. My way of “bubbling,” which I thought of after realizing the same thing, which is the possibility of bubbling in the incorrect answer merely as a result of multi-tasking, is to go through the entire section and marking the answers in the test booklet, and then bubbling in the answers. However, the way to avoid running out of time at the end, which is the primary concern with this method, is to stop answering when the proctor says that you have 5 minutes left (or if you have a stopwatch you may use that). By this time, I am usually on the last problem or done with it, and I know that I need to bubble in my answers. Now, it usually doesn’t take 5 minutes to bubble in 20 questions, so I have time to go over my answers in the last couple of minutes. That way I am fully focused on the task at hand and don’t have to worry about bubbling in answers until the end, when I am relaxed and I know that I have completed the section.
I just thought I would share my strategy. I think this is a helpful site and keep up the good work!

]]> By: Peter H. Huang http://blog.eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Peter H. Huang Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:44:36 +0000 http://eprep.com/2006/05/10/bubbling-avoid-mistakes-in-your-answer-key/#comment-116 Your video concerning bubbling provides advice that is consistent with research in cognitive psychology about focusing on tasks versus multi-tasking. Especially pertinent is your advice to adjust one's test-taking strategy once there are not many questions left so as to avoid having not yet filled in bubbles for questions to which you already have determined the answers. Not only is that outcome bad for your score, but also it is a terrible feeling that might spill over to & adversely impact your ability to perform optimally on the next section. Your video concerning bubbling provides advice that is consistent with research in cognitive psychology about focusing on tasks versus multi-tasking. Especially pertinent is your advice to adjust one’s test-taking strategy once there are not many questions left so as to avoid having not yet filled in bubbles for questions to which you already have determined the answers. Not only is that outcome bad for your score, but also it is a terrible feeling that might spill over to & adversely impact your ability to perform optimally on the next section.

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