If your testing center provides you with
writing materials (and they should), I suggest you quickly jot down the key
points from the stem.
?– Carefully read each response. Don??™t just skim them. Test item authors
deliberately include responses that are almost correct, but not quite. (We call
them red herrings.) The intent is to distract you away from the real answer. I
know it sounds sneaky, but the intent is to make the exam such that you can??™t
divine the correct answer without really knowing your stuff.
?– Eliminate responses that are obviously wrong. Each item will have one or more
responses that are blatantly wrong. (Usually it??™s because the test author
couldn??™t think of anything better to include as a response.) Eliminate these
answers and focus only on the responses that could be correct.
?– Make your best choice and move on. My experience has been that your first
impression is usually the correct one. If you agonize over the answers, you
can over-think the question and end up picking the wrong response. You also
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waste valuable time. After carefully reading the question and each response,
go with your intuition and then go on to the next item.
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