五条规则搞定单项选择题 5 Rules (and One Secret Weapon) for Acing Multiple Choice Tests

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When it comes to taking multiple choice tests, there's this common piece of advice that often gets thrown around. "When in doubt, always choose C." Right?

Or maybe for you it was B 'cause this advice comes from everywhere. Maybe you heard it from your dad or your teacher or you read it on the internet.

I'm pretty sure that I heard it from some kid in my eighth grade history class named Jimmy, but as Abraham Lincoln once didn't say, "Always independently verify advice given to you by eighth graders named Jimmy." Truer words have never not been said.

So today, we are gonna go over some more well-founded and useful advice that you can use to make sure you ace that next multiple choice test you got coming up in the future. And I've got five main strategies to go through as well as one secret weapon of sorts, so let's just get started.

First off, when those test papers flutter down to your desk, don't just start immediately going through the questions one by one in a linear fashion. Instead, take a few minutes to go through and skim the test and just get a general overview of the questions.

Now, as you're doing this, you can answer any of the questions that stand out as really, really easy or that you're really, really confident in. But another thing you're doing by doing this whole little skim once over the test before you actually start in earnest is you're priming your brain for some of the questions and details that are on the test as a whole.

And this can be really, really useful for a couple of different reasons. One, you're priming your brain to start thinking about some of the harder questions and we're gonna get to that in a minute.

But number two, sometimes multiple choice tests will have questions that hold details and hints or sometimes outright full answers to other questions on the test. For example, say you're taking a history test one day and you come across a question like this:

Which American president's death caused Napoleon to order 10 days of mourning in France? Now, as you're going over the answers, you can eliminate one of them right off the bat, but the other ones, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, you don't know which of the three is the correct answer.

So, maybe you skip it, you go on into the test and then later, you come across a question like, true or false: "Even though Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were bitter political rivals during the heyday of their careers, they eventually regained their friendship and kept it until both of their deaths in 1826."

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