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Read the question in full before you look at any of the answers. Come up with your own answer before examining any of the choices.
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Be careful you don’t read too much into questions. Don’t try to second-guess the test preparer and look for patterns or tricks that aren’t really there.
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Underline the key words in a reading selection.
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A positive choice is more likely to be correct than a negative
one.
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Don’t go against your first impulse unless you are sure you were wrong. (Sometimes you’re so smart you scare yourself.)
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Check for negatives and other words that are there to throw you off. (“Which of the following is not....”)
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The answer is usually wrong if it contains “all,” “always,” “never,” or “none.” I repeat, usually.
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The answer contains a great chance of being right if it has “sometimes,” “probably,” or “some.”
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When you don’t know the right answer, seek out the wrong ones.
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Don’t eliminate an answer unless you actually know what every word means.
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Don’t seek out answer patterns. Just because answer “C” has appeared three times in a row doesn’t mean “C” isn’t the correct answer to the fourth question. Trust your knowledge.
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Read every answer before you pick one. A sneaky test-maker will place a decoy answer that’s almost right first, tempting you before you’ve even considered the other choices.
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On a standardized test, consider transferring all the answers from one section to the answer sheet at the same time. This can save time. Just be careful: Make sure you’re putting each answer in the right place.
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The longest and/or most complicated answer to a question is often correct—the test-maker has been forced to add qualifying clauses or phrases to make that answer complete and unequivocal.
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Be suspicious of choices that seem obvious to a two-year-old. Why would the teacher give you such a gimme? Maybe she’s not, that trickster!
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Don’t give up on a question that, after one reading, seems hopelessly confusing or hard. Looking at it from another angle, restating it in your own words, or drawing a picture may help you understand it after all.
Multiple-Choice Strategy
There are three ways to attack a multiple-choice test:
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Start at the first question and keep going, question by question, until you reach the end, never leaving a question until you have either answered it fully or made an educated guess.
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Answer every easy question—the ones you know the answers to without any thinking at all or those requiring the simplest calculations—first, then go back and do the harder ones.
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Answer the hardest questions first, then go back and do the easy ones.
None of these three options is inherently right or wrong. Each may work for different individuals. (And I’m assuming that these three approaches are all in the context of the test format. Weighted sections may well affect your strategy.)
The first approach is, in one sense, the quickest, in that no time is wasted reading through the whole test trying to pick out either the easiest or hardest questions. Presuming you do not allow yourself to get stumped by a single question so that you spend an inordinate amount of time on it, it is probably the method most of you employ.
The second approach ensures that you will maximize your right answers—you’re putting those you are certain of down first. It may also, presuming that you knock off these easy ones relatively quickly, give you the most time to work on those that you find particularly vexing. Another common folly that students commit while preparing themselves for exams is that they tend to rot things up rather than understanding the concepts and the fundamentals of most subjects. Before you get down to mugging things, remember that this is a subject and a subject is not something that is to rot- learned. A subject has a history, a rich premise, an understanding that goes deeper than a few pages of published material. If you want to excel in studies, make sure that you get yourself familiar with the base of the subject you are trying to master. It helps a lot when you have grasped the reasoning and the history behind a particular subject. I am speaking from my personal experience here. The more familiar you get with the history of your subject, the better positioned you are to grasp the branching out theories that flow from it. It is only by going to the root of a tree rather than reaching out to the leaves, that you will be able to nurture a tree, Your education is the tree, the pages its leaves, and the history of it its roots. Go to the roots to study the tree.
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