**Multiple Choice Strategy: **
**1) Pick B if you have to guess on 4 options **
**2) Pick E if you have to guess on 5 options **
**3) Donāt pick answers with Always, Never, None, or All **
4) Pick answers such as āAll of the aboveā
Now you know how I got through Collegeā¦
āThe only winning move is not to play.ā ~ W.O.P.R.
- Donāt pick answers with Always, Never, None, or All
- Pick answers such as āAll of the aboveā
Well, thatās crystal clear. Thanks.
The video does preface 4) with āunlessā, so itās a bit less nonsensical.
So, terasabos? Thatās some bullshit trickery right there. Cool word though.
Some of my friends in highschool got through two rounds of a national chemistry competition by multiple choice analysis alone. This got them to the invitational part of the competition which was a written test. They declined.
And then there are professors like me that actually validate my assessments to ensure that the tests do exactly what they are supposed to do ā assess knowledge!
I mean, you NEED to have some questions that are easy wins to encourage confidence, but for the most part unless the educator is just an idiot, these arenāt going to get you much higher.
I will say that if a question goes from 4 options to 5, there is a reason it did it which then you are looking at All or None. Run through validation, you PROBABLY would ensure that guessing is minimized, probability of the item is discriminating correctly, and things like point biserial that ensures that dumbasses donāt get some questions right while throwing off the folks that actually understand the content (a lot of trick questions will reward those that should least be rewarded).
Either way, almost any standardized test will have gone through these processes. And anyone that tries these techniques with these will most certainly get the grade they deserve.
That said, there are key words people should pay attention to ā the ALL, NONE, ALWAYS, NEVER ā these are things to notice. Would I avoid them instantly? God no. In the subjective arts, professors are idiots because they think Art History is a science, and in the sciences we realize that there are hard and fast rules FOR THE LEVEL YOU ARE STUDYINGā¦if you get to grad school, your ALL, NONE, ALWAYS, NEVER are going to be different than at the undergrad level! Is it right? No. However, Iāve always told students if you want to write long answers out in their text explaining why one of these is right or wrong, do soā¦and Iāll consider it. I know I did and I was rewarded for actually knowing the subject at a higher level!
There are things to pay attention toā¦without just guessing.
There is another method which is guaranteed to give even better resultsā¦
- Study.
Also, itās a bad sign when somebody refers to it as a āmultiple-guessā test.
I use this as a general heuristic for playing board games; always tell the truth until you donāt.
- Donāt pick answers with Always, Never, None, or All
- Pick answers such as āAll of the aboveā
Iām going to throw some shade on these strategies.
This is literally pointed out in the third comment on this page.
The comment immediately afterward mentions that the actual video prefaces 4) with an āunlessā.
I am now correcting a pedant with even further pedantry.
I hope you are happy.
Ah. I read on the BBS, and the video didnāt show up. Since it wasnāt mentioned in the body, I never thought to look for one (and didnāt notice it mentioned in that comment).
Create a nice ārandomā pattern on your answer sheetā¦
To clarify the meaning here, rather than just pointing out the exception - a lot of multi choice answers will attempt to throw you off if you donāt know the answer 100% by specifying that something that is sometimes true is always true, or that all cases of something are true, for instance. All of the above isnāt referring to all cases of a particular scenario, it instead refers to all other answers listed for the question - in that case, examiners would usually only think to use that format if theyāve made that the correct answer (or at least often enough to give you an advantage picking that).
Iāll add an extra tip as well - these rules donāt apply in classes about statistics, probabilities or other fields where guessing is part of the training - I have heard of statistics classes mentioning the fun fact that ācā is the most common correct answer in multi choice (this likely varies by study and/or region) and then gave multi choice tests with literally no ācā answers being correct.
āHere are some some strategies for multiple choice tests and Rock, Paper, Scissors.ā
OK, but are they successful strategies? Oh, and show your work.
- Pick Paper when against a man
This is common knowledge by now among the Rock, Paper, Scissors Community. The meta has moved on. These days your opponent will already account for your knowledge and because he/she knows YOU know and will account for your knowledge by throwing scissors, throw scissors themselves, thinking youĀ“ll throw paper to counter them. Of course then you actually DO throw rock and take the win.
And I thought you got by on charm alone.
- Wrote strategies down.
- Got people to pay money to read strategies.
- Strategies are successful! QED
