Regents+Review+-+Day+1

Day 1 - Practice Test Part I
 * How should I study for the Regents?
 * How much time should I study for the Regents?
 * What are think notes, and how can I use them with my review book?
 * What units of the review book should I be comfortable with by next class?

1. **__How much time should I study for the Regents?__**

We are now 16 days away from the NYS Regents exam. Have you been studying in small chunks of time since the beginning of May? If so, you will continue to increase your study time by 5 minutes each week. That would mean two 25-minute sessions this week, and increase that to perhaps as much as four hours next week, and the week after. This is your final final push to the exam. If you feel insecure, you may want to look at the schedule below for students who have done nothing and adapt more of their schedule into your own.

If you have done absolutely nothing up until this point for review, you have time to prepare, but you no longer have a leisurely schedule!

Monday - 45 Minutes Tuesday - 60 Minutes Wednesday - 45 Minutes......................................May 30 - June 5 Thursday - 60 Minutes Fri-Sun - 2 hours

Monday - 90 minutes Tuesday - 60 minutes Wednesday - 90 Minutes...................................June 6 - June 12 Thursday - 60 Minutes Fri - Sun - 4 hours

Monday - 90 minutes Tuesday - 90 Minutes Wednesday - 90 minutes Thursday - REGENTS EXAM - Report to New Gym at 7:30am ...............This is Thurs. June 16

2. **__How should I study for the Regents?__**

1. Buy the Regents Review Book! 2. Prepare all quizzes for the day they are due to Mr. Vititow. (Do not pencil whip these! They are for a grade!) 3. If you have time, change answers after locating the correct answer in the review book. (You will now which questions you are shakey on.) 4. READ the boxes in the margins of your review book. These are test prep hints. 5. Use think notes as a way to outline your book. 6. Use a highlighter when reading your book. Use it sparingly. 7. Bring clarifying questions to class. 8. Test yourself further on Regents prep.org. Use the topical archive to review questions in a block of ten questions. 9. After step 8, try the same ten questions on the interactive archive. 10. Attend an after school review class if they are offered. If nothing else, use activity period and do review work in the classroom where answers to questions can be provided as they occur to you. 11. Watch Regents Review 2.0 videos located on this website.

3. **__What are think notes, and how can I use them with my review book?__**

Think notes are facts you write onto post-it notes. I have seen the books of students who cram their books full of these think notes. They are great memory devices because the notes are the things students go back and reread at the start of a new study session. They remind themselves of the points that were hard to recall. Notes might be on commonly repeating themes, important pieces of literature they are noticing, similarities between wars, reasons explaining why an event occurred, etc.

Let the notes extend out beyond the page like a book mark. Yes, it becomes a mess, but it is your mess, and there is a certain pride taken when you see your own book filling up like this. It shows a distance traveled, if you know what I mean.

4. **__What units of the review book should I be comfortable with by next class?__**

__//**THIS IS YOUR HOMEWORK!!**//__ Completely read through page 64 of your book. Have all 40 questions of the Regents practice Multiple choice completed. We will discuss the two Thematic essays located on page 63 and 64, but your having given them some thought is necessary prior to next class.

THIS IS YOUR CLASS WORK. PLEASE BEGIN NOW.

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