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Multiple choice
Prepare
Use lecture notes, handouts, or textbook glossaries to pick out information you could be expected to know including:
- Keep alert to information that could be turned into questions.
- Try making up your own multiple choice questions from your notes. Check out PeerWise.
- Remember that you will be required to recognise – not recall – the correct answers.
- Know the differences between similar ideas.
- Your selection of the correct alternative could depend on whether you know some of these small – and seemingly minor – differences.
- Practise questions from past exam papers.
In the exam
- Read through as many as possible during reading time.
- Delete obvious non-answers first, then make a choice.
- If you are stuck on a question, mark it on the paper and the answer sheet, move onto the next question and come back to it later.
- Watch out for “trick” questions eg, “which of the following is not an example”.
- Note qualifying words: the instructions may say “choose the most correct answer”, or you may be asked to choose more than one correct answer.
- If you really don’t know the answer make an educated guess.
- If the exam is mechanically marked (by scantron), be neat and careful to ensure that your answer corresponds to the appropriate question.
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