– When filling multiple choice bubbles at random why only go with 1 letter?

355 views

It’s a tip I hear often and I don’t quite understand.
If the time is nearly up and you have to fill in answers for multiple choice, A,B,C,D for example. Why would you only go with ‘A’?
You should get around 25% of the answers correct but no proper test is ever going to have ‘A’ as correct answer many times in a row.

Would it not be marginally better to just pick at random?
Why not?

Edit: I understand real world is rarely truly random, but is my thinking here correct given answers are randomly distributed?

In: 0

8 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

I don’t know the stats specifically, but the answers generally weren’t placed at random. In my head, that would likely make the first and last answer the least likely (outside of the last answer being all or none of the above). Thus, the middle answers are more likely to be selected for the correct answer. “C” then naturally allows you to read more answers. My unsupported two cents anyways.

You are viewing 1 out of 8 answers, click here to view all answers.