Are exams ment to trick you?

[Guest Dick Gower]

All of the above is dead right. There are always two questions that you can dismiss as being clearly wrong. Then you have to find out what is wrong with one of the remaining ones. When you think you have done this you RTFQ again to see if you are actually answering the question being asked.

 

A lot of people know the subject but have no practice at reasoning so they have trouble with multi choice questions.

 

The exam is not trying to trick you - it is just really difficult for the writer to come up with the three wrong answers that, on one hand, stand up to scrutiny, and on the other hand are not so obviously wrong that the whole question is a total farce.

 

The worst thing for the examiner is to wrte a "wrong" question which is actually right in some obscure circumstance that nobody thought about.

 

Writing multi choic exams is really difficult and whoever wrote RTFQ (an old Latin quotation meaning read the question very thoroughly) above is spot on.