The next five minutes could help you get a better grade in this class.
Students often ask us for more practice problems and questions, and not only that, they ask
us for ones that have the same look and feel as the questions they may get on an exam.
That’s where Adaptive Test Prep comes in.
It’s a learning app right in your MindTap course and it lets you take as many practice
tests and quizzes as you want.
You get immediate feedback, see the right answer, you get videos where a professor will
actually walk you through that question.
You get reports that show you what sections you are strongest in, what sections you may
need a little help and then you are able to create exams and quick quizzes that just focus
on where you need the most help.
All right, so let’s see how adaptive test prep works.
Here is a MindTap screen.
On the right side where the app bar is you see Adaptive Test Prep.
Let’s click on it.
And you can create a new test or complete a test that’s already in progress.
Here is your study plan.
It will show you your past attempts it will show you your progress what sections you maybe
may need the most help on and will give you some chapter resources to help you study.
But let’s now create a new test.
Let’s say that your professor is going to test you on chapter 5, 6 and maybe the first
two sections of chapter 7.
So you go ahead and you see the sections up here.
The total available questions are one hundred eighty two for what you chose.
You can make this test as many questions or as few questions as you want.
Let’s keep it at ten.
Take the test now.
These questions, while they are not exactly from the test bank they have the same look
and feel as test questions that you might get on a real exam so, again, you have the
same type of experience that you may be getting in your tests and quizzes in class.
And they we submit.
I just did multiple guess so as you can see I didn’t do so well.
Let’s get some help here.
Let’s look at question 4 that I got wrong.
Let’s click on it.
And here is the question from the practice test you can see the correct answer and the
answer that I gave.
Then you see a pretty good explanation here, some feedback.
And then many of these questions have what we call ‘Quick Coach Videos’ which are
real professors very briefly walking you through this particular question.
OK let’s walk through this and you can see the professor will walk you through in two
minutes this question.
So once you watch the video maybe you want to go to the section of the text that topic
is drawn from.
Just click on the eReader and that will take you to the place in the digital text where
you can see that topic.
Now suppose you wanted to check on what section you are doing well in, what section you may
need more help on.
You can go ahead and see Past Attempts, Progress Review, let’s click on the progress review
it will show you what chapter, you can click on any chapter.
It will show you how well you have done in each section of the chapter, you can set various
goals here and so what you can do is you can see how you are doing and maybe take practice
tests that really key on the sections that you need the most help on.
One other thing is since this is broken out into sections, Adaptive Test Prep isn’t
just for getting ready for exams.
You can use Adaptive Test Prep any time.
Suppose you went to class and your professor was covering the first section of chapter
4.
That is what you did that day and you go back to your dorm room and you want to test yourself
on how well you understood what your professor was saying.
You can just click on that section.
There are 40 available questions for that section let’s take 10 of them.
You click on Take the Test Now and it works the same way.
You just get these test questions, you submit them, you get those resources like the videos
and it takes you back to the text section that helps you the most.
OK?
So I hope you are using Adaptive Test Prep.
Give it a try and it just might help you with your grade this semester.
Take care now.