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Langan: Reading and Study Skills
Reading and Study Skills, 7/e
John Langan

Mastery Tests

Textbook Study I

Some of the questions that follow are true–false or multiple-choice questions, and some require you to write short answers.

1

What is one thing you do not do when previewing a selection?
A)Study the title.
B)Read over the first and last paragraphs.
C)Write down important ideas.
D)Look for relationships between headings and subheadings.
2

Many students mark off too much material when reading a textbook.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
3

Your first reading of a chapter should proceed slowly, and you should stop as often as necessary to reread material until you are sure you understand it all.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
4

Examples should be
A)underlined.
B)circled.
C)labeled ex in the margin.
D)underlined and labeled ex in the margin.
5

You should set off definitions in the text by them.
6

Use to mark off each point in an enumeration (list of items).
7

Every note that you write down should have a symbol in front of it, such as A, B, 1, 2, a, b, or the like.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
8

To study a textbook chapter, first you preview the chapter. Then you it through once, marking off what appear to be important ideas.
9

As the third step in studying a chapter, you reread, decide on the important ideas, and study notes. Finally, you recite the material to yourself, over and over, until you have learned it.
10

Leave space in the margin of your notes so that you can write key to help you study the notes.