1. The writer of the textbook creates chapter review questions to help students learn the most important points of the chapter.
   • Sometimes the review questions are at the beginning of the chapter, but more often they are at the end.
2. These points are the ones most likely to be on tests.
3. If you read these questions, find out the key words and most important points, and discover the general location for the answers to these questions first, then when you start reading the text of the chapter, you will already have some neural connections in your brain that you can attach the new knowledge to, thus making it easier to master the information in that chapter and to decide which sections of the chapter are the most important ones to study intensively.

How can I find the answers to review questions without reading the text?

1. Read each review question and highlight the key words. These will be nouns, verbs, and, sometimes, adjectives, and adverbs. You should highlight the words separately, not just highlighting the whole sentence since that defeats the whole purpose of making your eyes focus on the key words.
2. Start at the beginning of the chapter and read:
   

   boldface headings,

   italicized words, and, sometimes,

   the caption for an illustration to find the section of the chapter where the key words in your first question appear.

   All or most of the key words should be in the heading; if only one or two key words are in it, look a bit further to see if there if another section that is closer to the key words of that particular question.

3. In the margin at the start of the section where the key words appear, write the question number so that later you will know that you should give this section extra attention.
4. Do not try to answer the question at this time. At this point you may not understand the vocabulary completely, so you may not choose the exact sentences that correctly answer the question.
5. In the margin next to the review question write down two pieces of information: the page number where the key words appear and the quadrant, or section, on the page where they appear. You can eyeball a page and in your mind divide it into four sections, upper right, upper left, lower right, lower left, and you need to include this information too. Later you will not waste a lot of time searching an entire page for the information you need.