Teas Test Study Guide

Front 1

What is the entire passage about?

Back 1

I'm being asked to identify "subject matter".

Front 2

What are essentail points of the passage?

Back 2

I'm being asked to find the "main idea".

Front 3

Main Idea

Back 3

The one that is supported by other material or information

Front 4

What are the specific facts or opinions used?

Back 4

I'm being asked to locate "details"

Front 5

What does the author want you to do or believe?

Back 5

I will need to consider the "purpose" of the main idea or generalization here.

Front 6

What conclusions can be drawn from the generalizations or the details of the passage?

Back 6

I must look for the main ideas stated or implied and the details that support them. From these statements or inferences, I can draw "conclusions".

Front 7

How can you apply the conclusions you have made about a passage to new situations not addressed in the passage?

Back 7

The question asks me to "apply" the conclusion I have drawn and use them to determine new conclusions in situations that share some similarity to those in the passage.

Front 8

What is the feeling or attitude of the author toward the subject matter of the passage?

Back 8

I must look for words in this passage that express feelings. I am focusing on the writer's "tone" and "attitude".

Front 9

What is the general meaning of a word used in the passage?

Back 9

"As used in the passage" is the key phrase in this question. I must consider the words or sentences surrounding this unfamiliar term to determine its meaning. I must be focused on "vocabulary" in context.

Front 10

What do you notice about the organization of the passage or how are the generalizations related to each other?

Back 10

How does the author communicate ideas to me? I am looking for "communicatiion techinques".

Front 11

What should alert you to details?

Back 11

Proper Nouns and Prepositional Phrases beginning with at, on, by, near, above

Front 12

The Real Number System

Back 12

used in everyday mathematics

Front 13

Counting Numbers (natural numbers or positive integers)

Back 13

1, 2, 3, 4, 5....

Front 14

Whole Numbers

Back 14

set of counting numbers and 0. (0, 1, 2, 3...)

Front 15

Integers

Back 15

includes he set of whole numbers and the set of negative counting numbers

( -2, -1, 0, 1, 2...)

Front 16

What is the set of rational numbers?

Back 16

Fractions, repeating decimals, and finite devimals

Front 17

Finite Decimal

Back 17

one that stops

Ex:// 0.25

Front 18

Repeating Decimal

Back 18

one that will repeat forever

Ex:// 0.255555

Front 19

Irrational Numbers

Back 19

non-repeating decimals, like pi and radicals