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TEST TAKING TACTICS: EVALUATING ANSWER CHOICES Answer on the basis of the information given in the question. When answering test questions, you must base your answer solely on the information contained in the test
question. The test for a Firefighter requires no previous knowledge of the job. The test questions do not have to reflect the way the job is really done or the actual procedures of the Fire Department. Problems arise
when a person who is familiar with procedures of the fire department encounters a test question based on something which contradicts actual practices. It is in this kind of situation which you must ignore actual
practices and answer on the basis of what the test question says. For example, you might know that kitchen stove fires are usually extinguished with a portable fire extinguisher; but a test question might describe a
stove fire being put out with a fire hose attached to a hydrant. In this kind of test situation, never mind the actual practice; go by the information in the question. Tell yourself the answer to a question before you
look at the answer choices. Sometimes the question is too vague for you to anticipate the answer ahead of time. But often the question stem is a question precise enough for you to answer it before you look at the answer
choices. For instance, suppose you had studied the diagram of an apartment and then the question asked, "The most direct route from the dining room to the fire escape is...." You should be able to answer this
kind of question in your head before you look at the four answer choices. If you answer the question in your head before you look at any of the four answer choices, you are more likely to get the right answer.
Remember that part of the test maker's job is to provide three false answers for every correct one. It is a multiple choice test, not a true/false test. A skillful test maker will offer you some false choices which seem
pretty good in order to distract you from the correct answer. Among test makers these false choices are called "distractors." But if you have already decided what answer you should be looking for, you will not
be distracted so easily by bad answers which might look pretty good and which come before the correct answer. A seductive (A) and a half-true (B) will not prevent you from reaching a correct (C) if you know what you are
looking for. Sort answers immediately into three categories. As soon as you read a particular answer choice, decide if it is True, False, or Uncertain. If you are quite sure than an answer choice is True, use your
pencil to write a "T" in front of that answer choice immediately. But continue to read the other answer choices because you might find another True one and then have to make a final choice. If you are quite
sure that an answer choice is False, use your pencil to write an "F" in front of that answer choice immediately. You may find that an answer is False even before you have finished reading the whole answer.
Stop reading it as soon as you are sure it is false and mark with an "F". If you are Uncertain about whether a particular answer choice is correct, use your pencil to put a question mark (?) in front of that
answer choice. When you have finished reading all four answer choices, each one should be preceded by a "T" or an "F" or a question mark (?). If there is only one with a "T", that is
probably your answer. If you have more than one with a "T", or a "T" and a question mark, you may need to think a bit before choosing your final answer. But you should not have to bother any more
with answers you have given an "F" already. Negative Questions: Using "T" and "F" to evaluate answer choices is better than using something like a check mark to denote a correct
answer when it comes to answering negative questions. Negative questions are questions which ask you to pick out an answer choice which is "not true." If you are evaluating each answer choice one by one and
marking each one "T" or "F", negative questions will be easy for you to handle. Half-true Answers: Sometimes an answer choice really contains two different statements. For instance, an
answer choice might say, "there is a bedroom on the right and the kitchen is on the left." Maybe it is True that "there is a bedroom on the right," but False that "the kitchen is on the
left." With this kind of answer choice, put a slash mark between the two different statements, and write "T" or "F" over each separate part of the answer choice. But out in the margin write
"F" since an answer choice must be completely True to be valid. When it is difficult to choose between two answer choices, look back at the question stem. Sometimes there are two answer choices which both
look good. Or maybe all of the answer choices look bad. When you find yourself having trouble making the final choice of an answer, stop staring at the answer choices. Go back and look at the question stem and the
information the question is based on. Choose the best answer there. A very common problem for test takers is the problem of recognizing that the best possible answer to a question has not been included among the answer
choices. None of the answer choices seems to be fully adequate to the situation. In part, this is often a result of the way multiple choice questions are constructed. The exam maker does not have to include all the
correct procedures in answer choices; that might make for terribly long answer choices. Hence, some correct answers are only partial answers. Sometimes you will be given more than one partial answer and asked to choose
which is the best among these. In this sort of situation, work at eliminating the answer choices which are definitely wrong or most seriously incomplete. For your answer choose the best one remaining after this kind of
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