Any tips on the Praxis 1 test,?

Question

i am takin this saturday for the 5th time...im sad

Answer 1

Sorry to hear that you are taking it for the fifth time.  But let's think that this could be the time or else the negative thinking could ruin everything before you even walk through the door.

It would be helpful to know what you got on the previous four tests so you can see where the focus really needs to be and if you are improving at all.  If you've reached a plateau, then you're going to have to do even more work to push through.

Before I took it (more years ago than I care to admit), I got just about every study guide that was out there.  I teach pre-service teachers now and know that the study guides are even better and come with software that can emulate the tests and can even contain old questions.  Practice makes perfect, so going over these tests will only help and will also allow you to see what's been going wrong.

Beyond that, I know that it's summer, but you might want to track down some of your old professors for help if you can find them and if you know where your weaknesses are.  There's also study programs out there that you can join that can help you go over it the material as well.

Sadly, there's no easy road to this.  I wish I could give you a simple way to approach it, but there's not really any quick and easy to conquer the test.  It's covering things that you should have been learning all along, so just convince yourself that it's all in there (meaning "your brain") somewhere, you just need to remember it and bring it back to the surface.  The downside to this is that since it's covering all that material, it's going to be hard to "cram" for this sort of test.  

If you could have learned it over the span of a few days, it wouldn't be an entire undergraduate program.

Get a guide and plenty of caffeine and start taking tests over and over and over again...  and find someone that knows this material really well to EXPLAIN your mistakes to you.