Transcript Test Taking Strategies

Test Taking Strategies
Multiple Choice Questions
• Read the question accurately before
you look at the answer.
Do Not Read the ANSWERS
• If an individual possesses two
recessive alleles for the same trait,
the individual is said to be
Multiple Choice Questions
•Come up with the answer in your
head before looking at the possible
answers, this way the choices
given on the test won't throw you
off or trick you.
• If an individual possesses two
recessive alleles for the same trait,
the individual is said to be
• What might be the correct
response?
Multiple Choice Questions
•Eliminate answers you know aren't
right.
Eliminate Incorrect Answers
• If an individual possesses two
recessive alleles for the same trait, the
individual is said to be
• a. homozygous for the trait.
• b. haploid for the trait.
• c. heterozygous for the trait.
• d. mutated.
Multiple Choice Questions
•Read all the choices before
choosing your answer.
Multiple Choice Questions
•If there is no guessing penalty,
always take an educated guess and
select an answer.
The Process of Elimination
• If you can eliminate two wrong
answers, your chance of choosing the
right answer is greater.
If you haven’t a clue then…
• GUESS!!!
• A 25% chance of being right beats a
100% chance of being wrong.
Multiple Choice Questions
•Don't keep on changing your answer,
usually your first choice is the right
one, unless you misread the question.
Multiple Choice Questions
•In "All of the above" if you are
certain one of the statements is false
don’t choose “All of the Above.
•In "None of the above" choices, if
you are certain one of the
statements is true don't choose
"None of the above“.
Multiple Choice Questions
In a question with an "All of the
above" choice, if you see that at least
two correct statements, then "All of
the above" is probably the answer.
Multiple Choice Questions
•A positive choice is more likely to be
true than a negative one.
Positive Choice?
• Mendel concluded that traits are
• a. not inherited by offspring.
• b. inherited through the passing of
factors from parents to offspring.
• c. determined by dominant factors only.
• d. determined by recessive factors
only.
Multiple Choice Questions
•Usually the correct answer is the
choice with the most information.
Most Information?
• A population that has a normal
distribution of the range of heights
has many individuals who are
• a. tall and few who are average or
very short.
• b. short and few who are average
or very tall.
• c. average height and few who are
very tall or very short.
• d. average height and none who
are very tall or very short.