Warm-up Questions

When You Don’t Know the Answer

 Multiple Choice Strategies You Can Use

 When You Are Stuck:

1. When questions involve numbers, the choice that has a number in the middle of the range tends to right. The answers with the highest or lowest number tend to be wrong.

2. The choice that is most general or inclusive tends to be the right. When a choice is very restrictive, it tends to be wrong.

3. When you see two choices that are opposites, pick one. These type of choices tend to be right.

***Reminder***Strategies You Should Already be Using:

1.      Read the Directions.

2.      Read all the choices – Always!

3.  Cross-out the wrong choices

4.      Highlight or underline absolutes- words like never, only, every,

5.      Break down the question into small parts.