1. The document provides strategies for taking standardized tests such as getting enough sleep, eating breakfast, using process of elimination, pacing yourself, and checking your work. 2. Key strategies include reading the directions carefully, skipping and returning to questions, using clues from other questions, and double checking your work to avoid mistakes. 3. While it's important to try your best and guess intelligently, remember that standardized tests may include questions above your current grade level, so it's okay not to know every answer.