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Close Window to Exit	Foreign Language Success Strategies First Edition, Volume I: August 2006 Part I - Study Skills and Strategies
Multiple Choice Test Strategies to answer difficult questions: • Eliminate options you know to be incorrect If allowed, mark words or alternatives in questions that eliminate the option • Give each option of a question the "true-false test:" This may reduce your selection to the best answer • Question options that grammatically don't fit with the stem. • Question options that are totally unfamiliar to you. • Question options that contain negative or absolute words. Try substituting a qualified term for the absolute one, like frequently for always; or typical for every to see if you can eliminate it • "All of the above:" If you know two of three options seem correct, "all of the above" is a strong possibility. • Number answers: Toss out the high and low and consider the middle range numbers. • "Look alike options" Probably one is correct; choose the best but eliminate choices that mean basically the same thing, and thus cancel each other out.
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Multiple Choice Test

Strategies to answer difficult questions:
• Eliminate options you know to be incorrect

If allowed, mark words or alternatives in questions that eliminate the option
• Give each option of a question the "true-false test:"

This may reduce your selection to the best answer
• Question options that grammatically don't fit with the stem.
• Question options that are totally unfamiliar to you.
• Question options that contain negative or absolute words.

Try substituting a qualified term for the absolute one, like frequently for always; or typical for every to see if you can eliminate it

• "All of the above:"
If you know two of three options seem correct, "all of the above" is a strong possibility.

• Number answers:
Toss out the high and low and consider the middle range numbers.

• "Look alike options"
Probably one is correct; choose the best but eliminate choices that mean basically the same thing, and thus cancel each other out.