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The aim of this research is to examine students' test taking strategies, identify the most frequently used during the test situation, and their effect on test scores, also, the effect of using these strategies on the difficulty and discrimination of the test items and its validity and reliability, to achieve these objectives, a measure of test taking strategies has been developed, including five strategies, such as response time planning, question analysis, response planning, control and management, post-test strategy, and achievement test in the measurement and evaluation course was also developed, the sample consisted of 181 students of the general diploma in education, the research reached many results, including: 1) test taking strategies used by students in a medium degree, except the control and management strategy used in poor degree. 2) The scores of students in the test affected by the degree to which they use the test taking strategies, where the use of these strategies increase, the scores increase. 3) Students' scores in the test can be predicted through their test taking strategies, the most important strategies for predicting are the control and management and the questions analysis. 4) Item difficulty coefficients increased by the increased use of these strategies, while the item discrimination decreased. 5) Improved test predictive and congenital validity by increased of the test taking strategies, as well as improved reliably, but the effect of test taking strategies on reliably is less than the effect of this strategies on test validity. (Published abstract)