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In all the national high school graduation exams of 2018, except for the Literature exam, which is essay-based, all other subjects are conducted in a multiple-choice format, including English. Multiple-choice exams often contain deceptive answer choices, causing confusion and doubt for students. The following article will help you grasp some effective tips for circling English multiple-choice questions.
Techniques for Marking English Multiple-Choice Answers
Tips for Taking English Multiple-Choice Tests
- Quickly skim through the exam paper: Right after receiving the exam paper, besides checking for any issues, students should take advantage of quickly skimming through it to grasp the sections of knowledge they are about to tackle. Then, mark the answers that they are confident about, leaving the ones they couldn't answer to come back to later. Avoid focusing too much on one difficult question to prevent wasting time and missing out on easy scoring opportunities.
- Circle the most unusual answer: If encountering a question that seems impossible to answer, students can choose the most unfamiliar-looking answer, something they've never seen before, which might actually be the correct one.
- Utilize the process of elimination method: Multiple-choice tests often include various types of answer choices: the most correct answer, completely wrong answers, and distracting answers (half right, half wrong) that confuse students. Therefore, when dealing with this type of test, students can use the process of elimination by first eliminating the completely wrong answers and then focusing on eliminating the remaining options to find the most correct answer.
- Strategy of circling answers on both the exam paper and the answer sheet: This method is commonly used in English multiple-choice tests to prevent students from skipping unanswered questions and wasting time redoing questions they've already answered; ideally, students should circle the answers in the exam paper and fill in the answer sheet simultaneously. When marking the multiple-choice answers, it's important to fill in the circles darkly and completely, avoiding too faint or spilling marks outside the circle.
Specific technique of circling English multiple-choice questions
1. Fill-in-the-blank type exercises
- Quickly skim through the question to find the main content and absorb the information
- Determine the type of word, grammatical structure, or content that the blank space belongs to by looking ahead and behind the blank space to find suggestive words.
- Analyze the answer choices to see if any are suitable.
2. Spotting errors in sentences type exercises
* First, students need to identify the common types of errors often encountered in error-spotting exercises in English exams:
- Errors in word types, word meanings
- Errors in verb tense conjugation
- Errors in idiomatic expressions
- Errors in sentence structures and clause forms.
* Tips for tackling error-spotting multiple-choice questions:
- Go through each question, determine the meaning of the sentence, the verb tense,..
- Formulate the correct sentence based on analysis
- Compare your answer with the words or phrases underlined in the passage to identify and correct errors accordingly.
3. Comprehension exercises
- Quickly skim the reading to grasp the topic and grammatical structure.
- Carefully read each question, filter out relevant details from the passage, locate the section containing that information, underline the key points.
- Compare with the answer choices and select the correct answer.
- Double-check the question and the answer once more.
With some of the English multiple-choice circling tips we've just shared, we hope to provide some useful tricks to make it somewhat easier for students to tackle English exams in particular and multiple-choice tests in general. Students can share their English learning experiences or effective tips with us.
