You might have observed from previous experiences that many questions in single choice question papers follow some sort of a pattern that unintentionally help make the correct options predictable or at least help with cutting down on the incorrect ones.

Some of the commonly known ones are:

  1. Same option number shouldn’t be selected for multiple consecutive questions
  2. Options like ‘All of these’ and ‘None of these’ are mostly incorrect (though ‘All of these’ is relatively more used)
  3. The lengthier and more comprehensive option is usually the correct
  4. If all other options are proven incorrect then the leftover one has to be correct
  5. If the same option is shared between multiple questions, all of them shouldn’t be correct simultaneously

Are there any other patterns you observed?

  • taladar
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    1 year ago

    If you actually know the subject these are usually easy, so easy that test creators often try to trip you up with double-negatives and similar tricks to make it less obvious that most people who studied for them or understand the subject should have gotten almost perfect results.