7 Tips and Strategies for Answering Multiple Choice Questions | Test Taking Strategies

Thanks for stopping by this is 2 minute classroom

And today I'm going to give you seven
tips for multiple choice exams

And if you want to further develop your
study and test taking skills.

I've linked some books I recommend
and a study playlist in the description

Now on to the tips,

we'll start with the basic ones and then
move on to the more advanced tips

But all of these tips are relevant

Tip number one is to read through
the instructions carefully

I'm always shocked at how many students jump right into the test without reading the instructions

and maybe you're one of them

There is often valuable information in the instructions about how to take the test and what you are allowed to do.

So read it first

After reading the instructions, you can move on to tip number two,

which is to answer the easy questions first

This is a solid tip for nearly every type of test

It provides an overview of the test

and gives you several small victories to boost your confidence right at the beginning of the test

Tip number three is to answer the question in your mind before reading the answer options

Use a piece of paper or your hand
to cover the answer options

You may have to be a little more
creative If it's a digital test

Then with the answers covered

read the question and formulate your best idea of the answer in your mind before looking at the answers

So, why do this rather than just reading the options?

Because you won't get confused by the answer choices

and thinking two or three of the
options sound like good answers

If one of the options is similar to the answer you came to in your head

then you can answer faster and with more confidence

Try it out

Tip number four is to read every answer option

Similar to the instructions,

many students skip this step on at least a few questions

often to their demise

Because most multiple choice test questions want you to find the most correct answer

there may be multiple correct answers

So if you stop at the first one, you may
not see the most correct one

Even if you think you've found the answer read them all

Tip number five is to use the process of elimination

When you come to a question that you don't know the answer to

you can increase your odds by
eliminating answers you know to be incorrect

Physically cross them out if you can

if you can narrow it down to two or three answers

You'll increase your odds for guessing
correctly from the remaining answer choices

I'll do a separate video about guessing strategies for multiple choice tests and link it below

Because it's a separate video all by itself

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Tip number six is specifically for
all the above type questions

You don't actually have to know if all
of the above answers are correct

You just need to know if more than one are correct

for example

If the question has five possible answers the last of which is "all of the above"

and you know the first and third answers are correct,
but are uncertain about the other two,

you can confidently answer all of the above

Tip number seven is to answer every question.

I was amazed as a teacher to see students not
answer multiple choice questions

I understand that you may not know the answer

but you can certainly write or circle a random answer

There can also be a lot of strategy to guessing

which I'll make a separate video on

The only time you don't want to guess is
when you lose points for wrong answers

in my experience the vast majority of tests award you zero points for a wrong answer

but on certain tests you'll lose
points for answering incorrectly.

So make sure you know the test before you guess

Now watch this video on last minute test taking strategies that will WORK!

and this video of mine which
YouTube thinks that you'll find relevant

Thanks for watching and I'll catch you next time