What's the full form of MCQ multiple choice questions yes but I call it most confusing questions whatever we may call it no one can deny that they could potentially be the most scoring parts of our exams and with online exams these days MCQs are the favorites of our teachers so in today's blog I'm gonna give you five perfect strategies to ace your MCQ exams 10 Tricks for guessing intelligently but before that did you know which educational institution developed the first complete MCQ examination given below are four options and you need to give your option first complete MCQ examinations given below are four options and you need to give your option
in the comment below while I reveal the correct answer at the end of the blog so let's get going,
hey everyone let's dive straight into the five strategies to ace your MCQ exams
1. strategy: plan your time is the biggest limitation in MCQ exams so to tackle the continuous panic of losing time here's a very important strategy if you have one hour for your MCQ exams for example
divide that into three parts the first 15 minutes for skimming the paper read all the questions and as you go along you will find some small very easy to solve direct questions solve instantly and this will give you initial boost confidence the next 30 minutes go through the rest of the questions if something is very hard don't spent more then one minute on it in her book a mind for numbers barbara Oakley recommends the heart start to jump to the easy technique where she says that as soon as you hit a mental roadblock shift gears and get to work on easier questions the brain is a powerful organ it keeps working in the background also you might get some clues in some other questions and the last 15 minutes this is the time to tackle those challenging problems and perhaps make some intelligent guesses for those no go question and we have 10 super tricks for that coming up later on in this blog.
2. strategy: don't rush read the question twice pay attention to words like not always which completely change the questions also double-check the exact requirements of the questions underline these words and other important keywords if you think the first option is correct don't rush to circle the OMR sheet make sure you read all the options carefully before choosing the answer you never know you might find an all of the above somewhere.
3. strategy: use clues from the questions this question this strategy has three subparts haha just like MCQs first in math questions if the calculation seems too long-winded one easy method is to put the option back into the question and check if the equation balances two in English or social studies based on the question use grammar as a tool to help you example
this is your question option A is missing the verb and option D has no connection to the people of Iceland these options can be eliminated even though both may be true and you are finally left with options b and three check units and dimensions these will give you vital clues so if the calculation is for an area of an object, for example, rule out the options that are not in square inits even before you begin to solve the question.
4. strategy: is called context-based on memory sometimes we ponder over MCQ questions with foggy answers in our mind we're trying our level best to recall it but you are just stuck and to our rescue psychology has a trick called context-based memory it says that to recall some missing information try to remember where you studied that piece of information was it in a book or online was it from a tuition teacher or friend even trying to remember which corner of the page that graph was that may trigger your mind to connect the dots and find the missing information it works even if forgot where you kept your keys and with that key information.
5. strategy: is practice practice practice there is no strategy to crack MCQs that beats this one practice every day check your answer go back to the concepts and understand the types of questions being asked and if you want a perfect timetable perhaps to study for any exam then let me know in a comment now your left with the tough questions and if there is no negative marking or maybe the negative marking is very low then perhaps you can go ahead and make some smart guesses.
So here are 10 tricks for intelligent guessing,
Tip number 1: eliminate the option the general formula for solving MCQ is to increase the probability of the right answer by removing all the possible wrong answers so start by removing the option which is clearly wrong sometimes you might get lucky and be left with only one option.
Tip number 2: long-tail keywords in his book rock break scissors a practical guide to outguessing and outwitting almost everybody the author William pound stone has revealed some marvelous findings through his research with huge sets of MCQ data his book reveals that the option with the longest statement has the highest probability of being right because the test maker has to make sure that the right answer is indisputably right.
Tip number 3: avoid the footprint Poundstone also discovered that two successive questions really have the same correct option for example if you are solving question number 30 and find yourself clueless look at the answer to question number 29 and question number 31 and don't select the same letters they have the least probability of being a correct.
Tip number 4:. Golden option research has shown that if you are don't know the answer at all for any particular MCQ question and one of the options has other all of the above or none of the above you can let on these options they have a disproportionately high probability of being correct one reminder, however, is to make sure that is where there is no negative marking in your paper or the negative marking is very low before you try guessing too many answers.
Tip number 5: true versus falls in the ting of war between true and false in a true-false question Poundstone revealed that truth is more likely to be the correct answer than false so it is your answering widely then choose true.
Tip number 6: avoid north-south options remove the extreme value for completely unrelated values for example
If you are options are 100, 150, 200 & 300 then perhaps 300 may not be the right answer.
Tip number 7: if two options are similar surrounding or if they have the same keyword appearing in both these options chance are that one of them could be the right option also if two options are completely opposite chance are the right answer maybe one of them.
Tip Number 8: Grammarly incorrect options are most likely to be wrong.
Tip number 9: pound stone found that when the question has these options ABC the there may not be any clear bias birth when there were four options perhaps ABC & D then B had the highest probability of being right at 28% closely followed by C at 25%.
Tib number 10: pound stone found that when a question has 5 options the fifth option had the highest probability of being right but one caution here avoids gasing more than 5 to 10% of the questions.
Try to practice mode learn more trust your own instinct and remember that hard work is the shortest path to success and now coming to our question which we asked you in the beginning and the right answer was the option A,
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