The best strategy is to go through the multiple-choice section twice. The first time, do all the questions
that you can answer fairly quickly—the ones in which you feel confident about the correct answer. On this
first pass, skip the questions that seem to require more thinking or the ones you need to read two or three
times before you understand them. Circle the questions that you’ve skipped in the question booklet so that
you can find them easily in the second pass. You must be very careful with the answer sheet by making
sure the filled-in answers correspond correctly to the questions.
Once you have gone through all the questions, go back to the ones that you skipped in the first pass. But
don’t linger too long on any one question even in the second pass. Spending too much time wrestling over
a hard question can cause two things to happen: One, you may run out of time and miss out on answering
easier questions in the later part of the exam. Two, your anxiety might start building up, and this could
prevent you from thinking clearly, which would make answering other questions even more difficult. If
you simply don’t know the answer, or can’t eliminate any of them, just use your LOTD and move on.
REFLECT
Respond to the following questions:
- How long will you spend on multiple-choice questions?
- How will you change your approach to multiple-choice questions?
- What is your multiple-choice guessing strategy?