Multiple Choice: Best or Correct Answer?!

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Best-to-Correct Answer Approach

When faced with a multiple choice question that makes no sense to you initially, it's easy to become confused by the different answers from which you can choose. Rather than look at the question as a whole unit, you should break it down and deal with each answer individually so that you can narrow down the best possible choice. Multiple choice is said to be “tricky” in nature. All we have to do is to analyze first and think critically.

Best answer:
**Part of developing a “multiple-choice mind” is learning to pick the best possible

answer.  Sometimes you will feel that none of the choices you are given is really a good

answer.  You could probably come up with a better “correct answer” on your own.  Don’t

be thrown by questions like these.  Choose the “least bad” answer you are given, even if

you think it is not very good.

       **You may be having trouble finding a good answer because you misunderstood the

question.  If you think that none of the choices is a good answer, go back and read the

question again.

    **In some cases, the choice/s are all correct and you have to find the “best” one and the most top and/or prioritized answer.

Correct Answer:

** In multiple choice questions, the correct answer is more often placed in the middle ("b","c") rather than at the end ("a","e").

·    **The correct answer is guaranteed to be among the possible responses. A student can score points with a lucky guess.

·        ** In most cases, the choice/answer is obviously revealed. 

  The following articles describe/relate the topic:

11.http://www.pearsonassessments.com/NR/rdonlyres/D7E62EC6-CC3F-47B6-B1CB-A83F341AD768/0/Distractor_Rationales.pdf
  2.http://testing.byu.edu/info/handbooks/betteritems.pdf

  Note: Credits to the owners/authors of the above articles. I do not own the above mentioned articles. For educational purposes only. 

  Presented by: 

  Danielou P. Galla