Crack Competitive Exams

How to Answer Multiple Choice Questions to Crack Competitive Exams -Success Tips Part 1 By: John Did you know there are some specific methods and techniques to answer Objective Type Multiple Choice Questions? If you are studying them then you’d have realized this thing already but still the toppers secrets are hidden underneath.

Simply the MCQ Paper contains close ended questions so the techniques of solving such questions are distinctly different from subjective type question papers because in an objective type question candidate find themselves looking for a correct answer among the set of choices that includes 3 to 4 distracters , rather than using his own creativity and logic to answer the question in descriptive writing. There are several reasons of judging candidates in a competitive exam on the bases of multiple choice questions. Perhaps the most obvious reasons are: • An open ended answer does not give exact output of someone’s knowledge especially when the number of aspirants are in millions, whereas objective type exams carry an exact number of questions where the opportunity to earn marks depend upon finding the correct answer that is surely hidden in the given set of options of each question. So such exam leads a fair judgment. • From the students' perspective specifically those candidates who believe in lucky guess thinks that it’s going to be an easy job • One of the best things that candidates love about MCQ exams is the number of questions than essay/subjective exams, each question allows you to earn a low score but minimizes the risk of losing a big score for attempting the wrong answer at the same time Despite the above listed reasons, however, a competitive exam test results as a difficult one in comparison of open ended descriptive type exams. Consider that: •

The MCQ exam carries a large number of questions where candidates have to be very sure on detailed knowledge of the syllabus than essay exams.

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Today most of the competitive examination patterns include negative marking; at this point answering questions becomes a daunting task because the fear of attempting wrong answers might take your confidence away. Objective type questions also usually expect candidates to have explicit knowledge of details like Names, Specific Dates etc. So the candidates have to mug up instead of “bluff” that they usually do in subjective type exams As such exams contain numerous questions so that the chances of unintended ambiguity increase because the question paper is set by a human being

So the above mentioned facts are enough to judge your own competencies whether you can crack such exams or not, there are some rules of thumb for aspirants to do their preparation but before that you need to know the different types of multiple choice questions. You know that, multiple choice questions ask you to recognize and make the correct choice from the list of very possible answers (In layman’s language “Distracters”) but before you start your preparation lets know the type of MCQs: The most known and common type states a question to choose the correct answer

 Sometimes, especially in English Comprehensive section you may have to answer from a set of options by finding the best match for a statement  And in the last you might have to answer a question asking you to complete a sentence by choosing the most appropriate word from the list of options

Prepration Tips to Crack Multiple Choice Questions based Competitive Exams -Success Tips Part II By: John In the first part we learn what are MCQ Exams and their Types and now it's time to know how to prepare to crack any competitive exam even it is of government job or of any university entrance exam. Below given tips and part III of this series will help you to get success in very proven way:

Early Bird Catches the Warm MCQ exams ask you to have greater familiarity with the details, obviously it’s not easy to learn and retain such material in mind, however if you’re ready to revise them for a long term in that case you can make it possible. Let’s prepare yourself to follow a scheduled living dedicated to your exam preparation so that the daily reviews of the syllabus will build long-term memory, “Remember! It’s easy to make a timetable, in most cases people spends their days in frenzy of activities but managed to gain a very little because their concentration were on the wrong things” be an early bird and follow the tips I shared on my blog “Best Strategies and Tips to crack written exams” Concentration is a Fine Antidote to Anxiety You feel anxious everyday because your focus is on running timer; you’re trying to keep yourself busy in covering the syllabus instead of proper concentration. At this stage you must spend time to understand and solve tentative questions, work on the syllabus and give a cut of time to solve previous year question papers and take mock tests online. As said above you’d have to pay attention on concepts and fundamental terms that explains important events or features because such questions are very common to be asked in any MCQ exam. • Instead of memorizing the concepts, events and processes in book’s language consider rephrasing them in your own words. This way you would be able to clear yourself in a better way and this tip will also help you in memorizing the material you’re reading for a long-term • Do you have a group to study? If Yes! Then get them to brainstorm by exercising possible questions • Practicing sample papers is the most important factor behind the topper’s success in competitive exams, so if you have access to previous year question papers or mock test consider practicing them

Examination Hall Tips and Tricks to Crack MCQ Based Competitive Exams – Success Tips Part III By: John Previously in Part I and in Part II of MCQ Exam success tips we learned so many

critical aspects and tips of cracking. This is the Part III of Success Tips series to crack government jobs and other written examination, this section will give you.

1. You must give time to read the question paper to know the weight of questions in each section before start attempting them because sometimes exam paper carries questions with high, medium and low weighted value depending upon the paper type or difficulty of question. Ones you know the weight of each section consider attempting from the highest weighted question. This will help you to spend utilize time and score max in one shot. 2. One of the most important factors that help students to recognize the correct answer quickly is by getting the answer without viewing the choices specifically in Numerical Ability Tests. Ones you have the answer just consider checking it in the given choices whether it’s in them or not. 3. Sometimes your logic can help you to get the answer of those doubted confusing question where you refuse to attempt them. I have a trick, have a look at the set of choices of doubtful questions and think logically which one can be a good choice to correct the statement 4. This is recommended that you must read a question at-least 2 to 3 times to understand it clearly, Please find the techniques given in the end of this guide to know “How to Trick MCQ Exam” 5. To answer Numerical Ability/Quantitative Aptitude Test in MCQ Examination simply solve them on rules of thumb using the appropriate method in case if you believe that the answer is tricky to recognize consider avoiding the most obvious wrong options from the choices and then play a 50/50 lucky guess or you might have the answer ready in your mind just because you eliminated the obviously wrong answers from the set of choices 6. It happens most of the time when we go for lucky guess we choose answers on the bases of their technicality or typical spelling even if it have any business with the statement or not. Never do this. 7. In any circumstances you find yourself confused or under confident, simply try to recognize answer on the bases of Related Keywords, Hedging and Passive Pitch in question 8. Time management skills – This is where talent gets ruined, yes! This is the major problem that most of the candidates experience, It’s obvious too because the large number of questions and the barrier of limited time.

(a) A better way to keep the clock in your control is by avoiding skipping around, do not let the questions eat your time otherwise you’d find yourself anxious because you’ve lost more than enough time in a confusing question and lost the opportunity to solve other easy questions that were possible to cover in the same amount of time. (b) Keep the flow on the right track, to do this simply go one by one instead of picking question from your area of comfortless either in the end you’d not be able to manage time just because it's getting consumed in finding those typical questions you left in the beginning (c)

Do not get puzzled for more than enough time a question must eat especially when you’ve realized that it’s going to be very hard to get the answer now. Keep a significant amount of time for each question it may fluctuate but only when you’re confident enough to get the answers of those time consuming questions. Be positive till the end. Believe in your skills and competencies and leave a thank you note to that proper homework that you did to crack this exam. To keep your confidence up simply begin from your comfort zone but it does not mean to choose questions to skip around manner instead simply start from the category like some people love English, some Quantitative Ability Section, some Reasoning part and some like Current Affairs. I advise you not to begin with numerical section, you may love to solve quantitative ability questions even though consider solving this section at the end cause this is obvious that you’d lose your 60% to 70% cut of the total time on this part only and you should not allow this section to eat your precious time.

How to Select Right Answer in a Multiple Choice Questions Based Exam By: John Your Ads Here in HTML Parse Blushed? But you don’t need to be, because your curiosity of learning such shortcuts have taken you to the success key or you may call them tricks! There are proven logical techniques that can help you to answer the very type of multiple choice questions. Below given tips will increase the chances of attempting right answer of even if you are not 100% sure Step-1: Read There is a big difference between Read and Just Read, reading gives an opportunity to understand something clearly. Many candidates rush through this step and end up with a wrong attempt because they did not understand what examiner have asked actually

Read! Read! Read! You are worried that the timer will run off but you waste more time when you did not give proper time to understand a question while reading. THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR! For instance consider reading the below given question “carefully”. Ask yourself•

What is it asking you to find?

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Re-Read the question again to find the most important parts of the question The territory of Porus who offered strong resistance to Alexander was situated between the rivers of A. Jhelum and Chenab B. Ravi and Chenab C. Ganga and Yamuna What did you asked to find for? Read it again. The territory of Porus who offered strong resistance to Alexander was situated between the rivers of A. Jhelum and Chenab B. Ravi and Chenab C. Ganga and Yamuna Step 2. Now we understand that what the question actually asking, let’s look at the set of choices. You may be confident in answering the question without looking at choices even though

READ ALL THE OPTIONS A. Jhelum and Chenab B. Ravi and Chenab C. Ganga and Yamuna

Did you see any answer that cannot be right at any cost? •

If Yes! Then remove it from the choices. Knowing wrong answer helps you to find the right answer because it's hidden in the choices

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After eliminating the most obvious wrong answer we may have 2 remaining choices, so will be looking at the remaining options “It’s time to go for 50/50 life line”

Read the question again instead of lucky guesses: You have 2 remaining choices and the answer is one so complete the statement with the use of both option and try to remember. Have you heard this event ever “Any of the statements?” Finally! It’s here in your mind.