A,B,C,D… which answer is most common on multiple choice questions? Is the old advice to “go with C when in doubt” actually true?
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Bonus tip!
Some multiple choice questions are worded so that the answer will complete the question's sentence. In these cases, one trick that can potentially help you narrow down your options is to look for answers that make the sentence grammatically correct. Here's an example.
Charles Lindbergh was an:
A) Truck driver
B) Aviator
C) Surgeon
D) Ninja
Only "Aviator" makes the sentence grammatically correct. This won't always happen, but it's something to look for.
Me: *has AP Human Geography final in 12 hours*
Also me: *plays Fortnite*
I’ll update in July and if I don’t get a 5 I’ll be *insert surprised pikachu face*
0:12 gasp Koro-sensei?
when ap exams have a b c d and e??
Staar test 2019 is tomorrow
My ap human exam is tomorrow
This is what i consider studying for my ap test tomorrow. I've given up at this point
I always use none or all of the above if it is available when I don’t know the answer
Anyone writing csec exams and looking at this lmfao
At 8:13 when he mentioned that all the above answers has a 52% I think that depends on the test makers. Cause so far in my 12 years of being a student that I can remember. All my teachers made all the above answers wrong. Except on occasions where it’s a math question where there is multiple answers. Like a quadratic equation or a physics equation where the teacher puts a question in both imperial and metric system to test if we know the conversions.
I have my AP human geography exam today……I NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET •^•
Who else is here because they have an Ap Exam today?
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i love how everyone watching this is still avoiding actually studying by watching this
2nd tip basically means “second guess yourself” Nice ??
well- my algebra 2 test is tomorrow ?♀️ just hoping I pass- and the day after is my AP World History test— so I’ll come back again xD
Got my math finals tomorrow and Thursday I’m just gonna eliminate two dumb answers Ik are wrong and play eeny meeny miny moe
Who’s here for the ASVAB
taking my biol final in two hours lol
life hack just find the answer key
when you are intelligent but don’t try in test but your at 59% and you only got one more math test and a final.
AP world I’m coming for yaaaaa
If I have to remember the order of things (For example, the continents in order) I would make an acronym for the things and if there’s 2 with the first same letter, I would use the first two letters. Idk why but it works really good for me
I'm watching this for state testing
What I used to do is go from the the back to the front. This worked. Or if I did not know the answer I skipped forward answered the ones I knew then went for the other that I did not have the problem on and then for some reason I as able to finish the test. I started calling it the" Faucet Technique". This is when you slowly turn on your brain you answer what you know and like a faucet you start turning the water on slowly to get a trickle then as you go on to the other questions you go faster and faster until your done. Whew
Thomas' secret weapon:guess
My secret weapon:pencil of genie
Definitely here hours before my AP world history test ??
who is the winter soldier…. 4:47
…Bucky barnes
LOL
Umm do you know how to pass an ap computer science test. It has multiple coding section.sooo ?yeah.
since I scored a couple points lower than the required amount for the state test in algebra last year I gotta retake it next week so I’m here trying to figure out how I’m gonna guess my way to success ?
Am doing a newa math map test please wish a 240 score???
I took my first AP test today, the AP World Exam. It was really stressful because you had to pace yourself and then you had to make sure you weren’t doing it wrong and when you run out of ideas you panic. I’m pretty sure I failed and my parents will never let me hear the end of it.
The real question is what happened to this guy's hairline ?
That pikachu cap?
Preparing for NCLEX be like ?
I just hope no teacher trips on this video
lol i’m watching this instead of actually studying
I have a maths test tomorrow and i literally no nothing about it, so just gonna select D for every question and hope for the best.
my math exam is tomorrow and i’m watching this… rip me.
i haven’t studied but i’m just hoping i don’t fail this test so i don’t have to take math I again in high school. :/
THE ANIME THE ASSASINARION CLUB
I also heard that usually the longest answer is correct and if one answer is different than the other it is extremely likely that it is that one.
I go through and complete the questions that I know the answer to 100%. For the ones I'm not sure of, I use the process of elimination. I read through all the answers and start eliminating them based on what I know about the question based on context. Some may be so obviously wrong you can eliminate them right away. Once you eliminate the incorrect ones, what you have left, must be the correct answer.
I legit wanted to kill the man who invented exams
I would really appreciate if you provided the sources for this information. I'm writing a paper about something similar for university so it would be great to get some of these research papers