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?
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If the answers are truly distributed randomly, then any random selection of letters would produce roughly the same score.
Whether they’re actually random or not would depend on who wrote the test.
Whether you’d get a better score by guessing or not would depend on the way the test is graded – many standardized tests *subtract* 1/4th of a point for wrong answers so that a random guesser will get a zero.
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