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    Five Tips To Ace Your Multiple Choice Exams: 1. Read The Questions Carefully

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    The document provides five tips for acing multiple choice exams: 1) Read questions carefully and underline key terms, 2) Answer the question without looking at options, 3) Eliminate incorrect options by reading each option and ruling out wrong answers, 4) Answer all questions and skip hard ones to return to later, and 5) Manage your time by budgeting it across all questions and review. It advises against guessing strategies and recommends preparing by studying, practicing problems, attending class, and using university resources for additional help with multiple choice exam strategies.

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    The document provides five tips for acing multiple choice exams: 1) Read questions carefully and underline key terms, 2) Answer the question without looking at options, 3) Eliminate incorrect options by reading each option and ruling out wrong answers, 4) Answer all questions and skip hard ones to return to later, and 5) Manage your time by budgeting it across all questions and review. It advises against guessing strategies and recommends preparing by studying, practicing problems, attending class, and using university resources for additional help with multiple choice exam strategies.

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    Five Tips to Ace Your Multiple Choice Exams

    Which of the following is the most effective strategy for multiple choice tests used by
    students?

    A. When in doubt, the answer is C


    B. The longest answer is the correct answer
    C. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
    D. Always pick “All of the above”
    E. None of the above

    Those strategies may have worked on some of your high school tests, but they won’t be
    effective in university. Studying, practicing problems, and going to class are some of the
    best ways to make sure you do well on tests, but did you know there are also in-test
    strategies? Use these five tips to help you ace the multiple choice questions on your
    tests and exams.

    1. Read the questions carefully


    Make sure you understand what the question is asking. As you read, underline words
    like “not” and “always” since they change the meaning of the question.

    2. Answer the question without looking at the options


    Coming up with the answer yourself will help you identify what the correct option should
    say. Compare your answer to the options. Look for the same ideas and key terms.

    3. Eliminate the incorrect options


    Read each of the options and eliminate the ones that are wrong. They may not be
    related to the question or may be completely off. If you still have remaining options, read
    the question again, think of the answer you made up, and try eliminating again. It’s okay
    to restart the question if you think you do not have the correct answer.

    4. Answer all the questions


    Don’t waste your time on a question if you don’t know what the answer is. Skip the
    question and come back to it later. Give your brain more time to think about that
    question as you tackle other problems.

    Even if you don’t know an answer, make an educated guess. There is a chance you
    might get the marks. If you don’t try, you are guaranteed to get zero.

    5. Manage your time


    Budget your time to answer each question, review your answers, and transfer them to
    your answer sheet. Before you start writing the test, look at the test to see how many
    questions there are and divide your time accordingly. For example, if you have 50
    questions in a one-hour test, you could budget 50 minutes for answering them and 10
    minutes for checking your work.
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    More resources for multiple choice questions
    Do you want to practice and discuss multiple choice exams? Book an appointment with an
    Instructor: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/asc/appointments-undergraduate.

    Check out these resources to get more help and information on multiple choice exam strategies:
    Multiple Choice Tests – Cornell University
    http://lsc.cornell.edu/multiple-choice-tests-2/

    Multiple Choice Exams – University of Guelph


    https://guides.lib.uoguelph.ca/MultipleChoice

    Multiple choice exams – The University of Queensland Australia


    http://www.uq.edu.au/student-services/learning/multiple-choice-exams

    Looking for more learning strategies? Visit us at: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/asc/

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