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How To Finish Every Multiple Choice Test On Time

If there’s one complaint I hear more often than any other from students about their multiple choice exams, it’s that they can’t seem to finish them on time.  And it’s a reasonable complaint. Nothing’s more frustrating than leaving pages of unfilled bubbles – particularly on exams that don’t penalize for guessing.
Not finishing on time is [...]

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Before You Study: 4 Critical Multiple Choice Study Concepts

Here are four themes that characterize excellent multiple choice preparation:
Use Successive Condensing
One of the critical factors of mastering you material is to continually have less of it on paper, and more of it in your head.   I call this successive condensing. Your study notes should continually shrink until they become [...]

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Thou Shalt Pass: 10 Commandments for Multiple Choice Tests

Here are a few “commandments” for taking multiple choice question exams – these simple tips can make a great difference your results:

Use real multiple choice questions to study
Don’t lock yourself to a fixed study schedule
Structure your material
Focus on learning, understanding, and context – not straight memorization
Cycle through the test – don’t answer in sequence
Answer the [...]

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Using the Process of Elimination for Multiple Choice Questions

The standard mindset for any kind of testing is to come up with the right answer. Right? Well, that’s certainly a valid approach. After all, if you come up with all the right answers, then you’ll get a perfect score. What could be easier?
Welcome to reality. In the real world, people don’t know all the [...]

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How To Write a Multiple Choice Test: The Cycle Method

How you take your multiple choice test can affect your marks more than any other factor. The cycle method is one of the single best steps you can take to improve your grades. Best of all, you can implement it right away.
It works like this: instead of completing the multiple choice questions in numerical [...]

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6 Pitfalls To Avoid When Studying for Multiple Choice Tests

You can be putting in hours of study time, but your time’s being wasted if you’re falling into these common traps when studing for your multiple choice tests:

Rigid study schedule: Study schedules aren’t always ideal for multiple choice exams, and they may not fit your style. Don’t be too rigid.
Reading and re-reading (writing too little): [...]

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Multiple Choice Study Strategy: Be Wary of Study Schedules

While conventional multiple choice study wisdom says you should create a study schedule and follow it rigorously, there are a few problems with this approach:

Study schedules weight the difficulty of everything the same
Study schedules assume your brain works with equal effectiveness at all times
Study schedules don’t properly weight your existing knowledge of a topic
Study schedules [...]

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Multiple Choice Study Tip: Structure Your Materials In MCQ Format

The key to improving your multiple choice preparation lies in retention – what can you recall when the paper is in front of you and the clock is ticking?
What people tend to lose sight of is that the key to retention lies in comprehension, not simply memorizing or studying more. How well do you understand [...]

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Managing Test Anxiety On Multiple Choice Exams

Test anxiety can be one of the most crippling problems for students, and it’s particularly common with the multiple choice question format. Multiple choice tests are often “question heavy” – they have more questions than time – and the questions are frequently designed to create stress and confusion.
We’ve all felt moments of panic in our [...]

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The Ultimate Multiple Choice Test Strategy

There’s one single tip for multiple choice questions that will improve your multiple choice test scores more than all other categories combined:
Understand that multiple choice test-taking is a skill.
It’s true. Just like driving a car, learning to ski or speaking another language, multiple choice questions are a learnable skill. And because they’re a skill:

You can [...]

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