[jsimus]

FAR MCQ Test Taking Technique suggested by a friend is

1. Read the stem of the question first before the main body of the question

2. Read the answers in a descending order ie answer D ,before C ,etc till A

3. The MCQ testlet contain 30 questions so break the question into chucks of 10 and solve chuck 11-20 first as this MIGHT contain the most difficult questions which could take a lot of the time and contain the highest marks than 1-10 which are pretty easy stuff and 21-30 containing the medium stuff.His suggestion is that most people start with 1-10 and when the hit 11-21 they spend a lot of time on it and run out of time then they begin to guess a lot from 21-30 which are medium stuff thus fail the testlet.

I tend to agree with him on suggestion #1 and 2 but want to confirm his assertion on suggestion # 3.To those who have written this test before do you agree with #3 or discussing it will be a disclosure which I do not think so as no specific topic is to be mention…Let talk to this and share our experience which is the purpose of this forum.

[Excel14]

Your friend is “assuming” that a pattern of harder questions always occurs between 11-20. Since we can't assume that, I'm not sure that theory holds true. I've seen it stated other places about #1, so I'd venture that is true. Not sure about #2 being helpful.

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[Anonymous]

The first one is definitely some of the best test-taking advice I took away from CPAexcel. Reading the end of the question first is really important. Saves a ton of time, and makes every question substantially less scary because you know exactly what you're looking for. Otherwise, questions start sounding like gibberish halfway through reading it.

2 seems kind of pointless to me. I don't know why you'd start with D and work your way up and I don't know why that would matter in the least bit. Sounds like a just another potential and wholly unnecessary distractor. I mean, I guess if you like reading the answers backwards, go for it. I just don't understand why you would. I start from A and read down to D because reading top to bottom is what most human people probably tend to do.

3 is just bizarre. We're getting into conspiracy theory level territory here. I've never heard anything like that before and just considering it is just going to make you worry more during the test when the theory doesn't hold true and you think you're doing awful right off the bat by missing what you think are the “easy” questions that could just as easily be the hard questions. Trying to game the test makers like that can only end poorly for you.

[UHC2005]

1 -Seems like a legit good advice in my experience.

2 – I'm not sure how helpful this is. I've tried it both ways and it didn't make much difference.

3 – I don't agree with this one. It's pretty much a crapshoot as far as difficulty goes and difficulty is very relative to the test taker.

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