Multiple Choice Prep
A reminder that the multiple choice section is worth 20% of your final exam. The questions will be based on the three text pieces that you must read: Poetry, Informational Text, and Literary Prose (Short Story). The good news is that if you read carefully (which you should anyway to prepare for the synthesis question!!) then you will be prepared for the multiple choice questions as well.
The other key strategy you have for preparing for this section of the exam is to study your key terms.
Below is the answer key for the Practice Provincial you wrote on Wed. Jan 21st and Thurs. Jan 22nd.
Questions 1-5 are based on the article "Chiwid of the Chilcotin" (See original text here)
Questions 6-10 are based on the poem "A Pheasant on Deer Mountain" (See original text here)
Questions 11-5 are based on the short story "The Way to Rainy Mountain" (See original text here)
The other key strategy you have for preparing for this section of the exam is to study your key terms.
Below is the answer key for the Practice Provincial you wrote on Wed. Jan 21st and Thurs. Jan 22nd.
Questions 1-5 are based on the article "Chiwid of the Chilcotin" (See original text here)
Questions 6-10 are based on the poem "A Pheasant on Deer Mountain" (See original text here)
Questions 11-5 are based on the short story "The Way to Rainy Mountain" (See original text here)
General Tips for Writing Multiple Choice
1. Read the question carefully. What is it actually asking?
2. Use the process of elimination to rule out any options that you know are incorrect.
3. Make sure you answer the question! Students sometimes are unsure of an answer so they leave it blank with the intention to come back again and complete it. DON'T DO THIS!! Answer the question right then. If you want to come back and look at it later that is fine, but many students forget about the blank question and then it is guaranteed that you will lose the mark.
4. Answer the question and move on. Don't fret or worry if you think your answer is incorrect. Put it behind you.
5. Don't spend a disproportionate amount of time on any particular question. The worst thing you can do is to waste 5 or 10 minutes on a single question that is only worth 1 or 2% of your overall mark.
6. Remember that there could be two answers that are possibly correct, but you must pick the best of the two.
7. If the question gives you any kind of a hint (e.g. "In paragraph 4" or "on line 17") then take the time to go back and read the paragraph or the line of poetry again.
2. Use the process of elimination to rule out any options that you know are incorrect.
3. Make sure you answer the question! Students sometimes are unsure of an answer so they leave it blank with the intention to come back again and complete it. DON'T DO THIS!! Answer the question right then. If you want to come back and look at it later that is fine, but many students forget about the blank question and then it is guaranteed that you will lose the mark.
4. Answer the question and move on. Don't fret or worry if you think your answer is incorrect. Put it behind you.
5. Don't spend a disproportionate amount of time on any particular question. The worst thing you can do is to waste 5 or 10 minutes on a single question that is only worth 1 or 2% of your overall mark.
6. Remember that there could be two answers that are possibly correct, but you must pick the best of the two.
7. If the question gives you any kind of a hint (e.g. "In paragraph 4" or "on line 17") then take the time to go back and read the paragraph or the line of poetry again.