How-to-attempt multiple-choice questions

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Test Taking Strategies
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• How-to-attempt multiple-choice questions?

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Tips To improve your score on multiple choice
questions exam

• Keep yourself calm
• Every five minutes take a deep breathe
• Operate logically rather than on instinct
• Dont panic otherwise you will forget the
• information you know
• For difficult question intelligently
• eliminate the wrong answers

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Tips To improve your score you should know
different types of multiple choice questions

• Which asks for a single, simple fact (Who,
• What, Where questions).
• Where more than one answer is correct
• Tricky questions
• Which have qualifiers (always, never,
• most, equal etc)
• Which have negatives that can reverse the
• meaning of a sentence
• Where you are asked to apply knowledge
• to a particular context

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Tips To improve your score on multiple choice
questions

• Read the question carefully to
• Understand what is required in the question
• identify the subject area and
• identify important key words in the question
  (underline or circle the keyword)
• Answer all the questions even if you dont
• know the answer still you have 25 chance
• to make it correct
• Read all the optional answers before
• choosing your answer

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Tips To improve your score on multiple choice
questions

• Do not spend too much time on any one
• question. MAKE an intelligent guess and
• circle the question number so that you can
• come back to it later of you have extra
• time
• After you have finished the test, go back
• to those questions you circled as being too
  
• hard or as having no right answer
• Change your answer if you are confident,
• generally your first guess is more likely to
  
• be correct

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Tips To narrow your answer choices make
intelligent guess

• Carefully look to identify if any of the
• answers repeats key words from the
• question
• Guess the answer before you look at the
• choices
• Two or more alternatives say the same
• thing, either each is probably wrong or
• All the above answer option is correct

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Tips To narrow your answer choices make
intelligent guess

• In a question with an "All of the above"
• choice, if you see that at least two
• correct statements, then "All of the
• above" is probably the answer
• When 3 or more alternatives answer deal
• in different ways with one concept, one of
• them is usually right
• Sometimes there are 2 options that are
• alike except for one word. Such a pair
• indicates that the question is focused
• there.

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