standardized tests

[SpikeyMike83]

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so I've been studying, and I unfortunately am someone who doesn't test extremely well, and with multiple choice I inevitably ALWAYS pick the wrong answer. Does anyone have any good hints/tricks/methods to succeed on standardized tests?

 

[Sprgrover]

I am horrible at standarized tests and I have two bits of wisdom: 1) never change your answers 2) develop a system in which you randomly pick an answer - e.g. my system is/was after eliminating choices I knew to be incorrect I would pick the first one left standing. For example, if I could rule out B and C from a list of A, B, C, D, and E I would thus pick A if I was stuck between the remain three choices. My reasoning is that I stand a better chance of guessing an answer randomly than if I debate it without much more to go on than a hunch (which never works out in my case). As a matter of fact I did have some luck with that system and those are two ways that I felt I could ease some of the test anxiety.