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What are your best tips to solve Single Choice Questions by guesswork? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You might have observed from previous experiences that many questions in single choice question papers follow some sort of a pattern that unintentionally help make the correct options predictable or at least help with cutting down on the incorrect ones.

Some of the commonly known ones are:

Same option number shouldn't be selected for multiple consecutive questions
Options like 'All of these' and 'None of these' are mostly incorrect (though 'All of these' is relatively more used)
The lengthier and more comprehensive option is usually the correct
If all other options are proven incorrect then the leftover one has to be correct
If the same option is shared between multiple questions, all of them shouldn't be correct simultaneously

Are there any other patterns you observed?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

To clarify, I am not advocating that the above points are applicable in every case. These are ultimately observations just like weather forecasts and one must exercise their own common sense to determine if it is even worth approximating the correct option like this. What I tried to accomplish here was just a thought experiment and maybe a way to guide someone to the correct solution if a question did not make sense to them at all.