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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 • Double negatives: Create the equivalent positive statement and consider. • Echo options: If two options are opposite each other, chances are one of them is correct . • Favor options that contain qualifiers The result is longer, more inclusive items that better fill the role of the answer. • If two alternatives seem correct Compare them for differences, then refer to the stem to find your best answer. Guessing: • Always guess when there is no penalty for guessing or you can eliminate options • Don't guess if you are penalized for guessing and if you have no basis for your choice • Use hints from questions you know to answer questions you do not • Change your first answers when you are sure of the correction, or other cues in the test cue you to change Remember that you are looking for the best answer, Not only a correct one, and not one which must be true all of the time, in all cases, and without exception
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Guessing:
• Always guess when there is no penalty for guessing or you can eliminate options
• Don't guess if you are penalized for guessing and if you have no basis for your choice
• Use hints from questions you know to answer questions you do not
• Change your first answers when you are sure of the correction, or other cues in the test cue you to change

Remember that you are looking for the best answer,
Not only a correct one, and not one which must be true all of the time, in all cases, and without exception