silly question :-/

[kabtq9s]

sorry guys my test is really soon and I am very nervous, forgive the silly Q

when you'r ONLY guessing b/c you have like 45 sec left and about 15 questions left is it better to guess on all the questions with the same letter, or randomly with different letters?? does it matter?? probably not, but i just want to know what others think

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[cornpops21]

sorry guys my test is really soon and I am very nervous, forgive the silly Q

when you'r ONLY guessing b/c you have like 45 sec left and about 15 questions left is it better to guess on all the questions with the same letter, or randomly with different letters?? does it matter?? probably not, but i just want to know what others think

I think if I was in that situation, I would cry and then void.

 

[requeim]

you should work on trying to fix that rather than think about what to do in that situation and make sure it never happens.

 

[engineeredout]

Having 15 questions not looked at is HORRIBLE.

Wasn't there a study though that said that something like 55% of answer choices were likely to be B or C? Not mcat specifically but in general for multiple choice tests?

 

[amar21]

B

all B's.

I did this once on a kaplan FL when I got bored and wanted to go eat... i ended up getting half of them right haha.

 

[requeim]

lucky

 

[simpleleap]

It definitely depends on the test what the answers are, for the most part I'm pretty sure the MCAT's answers are pretty random. Make sure you prepare for nervousness and provide cushion for yourself while taking the test so you can answer all of the questions. Too much money and time to go in guessing!

 

[AZFutureDoc]

Forgive, since I don't have much of a probability background (until I take a whole damn class on it next sem.) but is it valid or invalid to expect more right choosing one letter? In my potentially flawed mind, it seems like this should give you 25% correct. Random letter choosing seems more probable to either give you a low number or a high number depending on luck.

I go into a debate with a friend about this. If you could live forever, and played the same lottery using the same numbers every time, are you guaranteed to eventually win? Seems like every combination of winning numbers would be obtained if the lotto played to infinity and your number would inevitably be the same number as the winning ones. He called this the gamblers fallacy but his explanation did not quite seem applicable to what I was saying.

 

[JoeC]

I go into a debate with a friend about this. If you could live forever, and played the same lottery using the same numbers every time, are you guaranteed to eventually win? Seems like every combination of winning numbers would be obtained if the lotto played to infinity and your number would inevitably be the same number as the winning ones. He called this the gamblers fallacy but his explanation did not quite seem applicable to what I was saying.

Your friend is right. With every time you play, your probability of winning stays the same. Eventually, the probability of you having never won will be infinitesimally small, but it will never reach zero. It's a limit problem, with your chances of not winning looking something like .9999999999^n. No matter what you make n, there will still be a probability that you have never won.

Ultimately, it's all semantics. Who cares? Have a beer and relax.

you should work on trying to fix that rather than think about what to do in that situation and make sure it never happens.

This is perfect advice for the OP.

 

[not respect]

from a probability point of view there is no difference.