(Note we updated the time consideration for answering each item per the new schedule of the Program for the Licensure Exam for Psychologists and Psychometricians. Refer below.) This is a general suggestion and be reminded of those strategyies that you think will be helpful for you in taking the Psychometrician Licensure Exam. The exam will be multiple choice - outcome-based assessment and it will be a machine scored/validated exam. So be careful and do not put unnecessary marks and smudges on your answer sheet. Answer all items otherwise the rest of your correct answered items might not be read by the machine. Observe time. Before submitting your answer sheet make sure to review that you did not miss any items. READ, STUDY and REVIEW!
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For many reasons, students commonly consider multiple choice exams easier than essay exams. Perhaps the most obvious reasons are that:
If your textbook highlights new vocabulary or key definitions, be sure that you understand them. Sometimes new words and concepts are collected at the end of a chapter. Check to be sure that you have not left any out by mistake.Do not simply memorize the book's definitions. Most instructors will rephrase things in their own words as they write exam questions, so you must be sure that you really know what the definitions mean.
There are many strategies for maximizing your success on multiple choice exams. The best way to improve your chances, of course, is to study carefully before the exam. There is no good substitute for knowing the right answer. Even a well-prepared student can make silly mistakes on a multiple choice exam, however, or can fall prey to distracters that look very similar to the correct answer. Here are a few tips to help reduce these perils:
If you are so eager to start that you forget to enter your name and ID number, your results may never be scored. Remember: your instructor will not be able to identify you by handwriting or similar text clues.
Try to anticipate the correct response before you are distracted by seeing the options that your instructor has provided. Then, uncover the responses.
None of these strategies is infallible. A smart instructor will avoid writing questions for which these strategies work, but you can always hope for a lapse of attention.
If you cannot answer a question within a minute or less, skip it and plan to come back later. Transfer all responses to the answer sheet at the same time, once you have marked all questions on your exam. (If you try to do several things at once, you increase the probability of making a mistake. Saving the relatively mindless job of filling in bubbles until the last step reduces the probability of making silly errors.)
For 100 items on subjects: Theories of Personality, Industrial Psychology and Abnormal Psychology the allotted time is 3 hours or 180 minutes for each of the subject. So we have 1 minute and 48 seconds to answer each question. But for Psychological Assessment for the 150 items with 180 minutes (3 hours) time allotted, we only have 1 minute and 12 seconds to answer each item. So budget your time wisely when answering the questions. (Thanks to Christian for pointing out our previous error of converting minutes to seconds.)
Your instructor/proctor will probably never take a close look at your answer sheet, so if you fail to fill in bubbles completely or if you make stray marks, only the computer will notice, and you will be penalized. Erase any accidental marks completely.
Unlike an essay exam, on which you may later appeal a grade on the grounds that the instructor misunderstood your response, a multiple choice exam offers you no opportunity for "partial credit." If you filled the wrong bubble, your answer is 100% wrong.Source: Center for Teaching Excellence http://people.uwec.edu/ivogeler/multiple.htm Related Read: http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/45668_8.pdf http://www.washington.edu/oea/services/scanning_scoring/scoring/item_analysis.html |
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Showing posts with label Taking Multiple Choice Exams. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Taking Multiple Choice Exam: Strategy and Reminders
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