strategies for answering multiple choice questions
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Strategies for answering multiple choice questions. Don’t be chicken to answer!. Eliminate options you know to be incorrect. M ake a mark beside the words or alternatives in questions that eliminate any option. Give each option of a question the "true-false test:". - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Strategies for answering multiple choice questions
Don’t be chicken to answer!
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Eliminate options you know to be incorrect
Make a mark beside the words or alternatives in questions that eliminate any option.
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Give each option of a question the "true-false test:"
This may reduce your selection to the best answer
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Question options that grammatically don't fit with the stem (the stem is the question or the start of the sentence you are asked to complete)
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Question options that are totally unfamiliar to you
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Question options that contain negative or absolute words.
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"All of the above:"
If you know two of three options seem correct, "all of the above" is a strong possibility
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Number answers
Toss out the high and low and consider the middle range numbers
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"Look alike options"
…probably one is correct; choose the best but eliminate choices that mean basically the same thing, and thus cancel each other out
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Double negatives:
Create the equivalent positive statement
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Echo options:
If two options are opposite each other, chances are one of them is correct
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Favor options that contain qualifiers
The result is longer, more inclusive items that better fill the role of the answer
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If two alternatives seem correct,compare them for differences, then refer to the stem to find your best answer
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If all else fails,choose response (b) or (c). Many test creators subconsciously feel that the correct answer is "hidden" better if it is surrounded by distracters. Response
(a) is usually least likely to be the correct one.
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Guessing:• Always guess if you do not know… it is 100%
wrong if you do not answer at all. You have a 25% chance of being right if you guess.
• Use hints from questions you knowto answer questions you do not.
• Change your first answerswhen you are sure of the correction, or other cues in the test cue you to change.
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Remember that you are looking for the best answer,
not only a correct one, and not one which must be true all of the time, in all cases, and without exception.
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Still guessing?
• If you see the response that you anticipated, circle it and then check to be sure that none of the other responses is better.
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It’s right or wrong….
• a multiple choice exam offers you no opportunity for "partial credit."
If you filled the wrong bubble, your answer is 100% wrong
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Just remember:
You are not “standard”…nor are you “automatic”… know that you have everything that you need to succeed.