More Expert CSET Test Taking Secrets Revealed

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chronometer on your watch to count the minutes), and check the time after a few questions to make sure you are ‘on schedule.’ It may be easier for you to monitor your pace based on

how many minutes have been used, rather than how many minutes remain. If you find that you are falling behind time during the test, begin skipping difficult questions (unless you know it at a quick glance). Once you catch back up, you can continue working each problem. If you have time at the end, go back then and finish the questions that you left behind.

Don’t dwell on problems you were rushed on. If a problem was taking up too much time and you made a hurried guess, it must be difficult. The difficult questions are the ones you are most likely to miss anyway, so it isn’t a big loss. It is better to end with more time than you need than to run out of time. You can always go back and work the problems that you skipped. If you have time left over, as you review the skipped questions, start at the earliest skipped question, spend at most another minute, and then move on to the next skipped question.

Ask yourself whether the answer you’re considering completely addresses the question. If the test answer is only partly true or is true only under certain narrow conditions, then it’s probably not the right answer. If you have to make a significant assumption in order for the answer to be true, ask yourself whether this assumption is obvious enough that those who created the CSET would expect everyone to make it. If not, it’s probably not the right answer.

If, after your very best effort, you cannot choose between two alternatives, try vividly imagining each one as the correct answer. If you are like most people, you will often “feel” that one of the answers is wrong. Trust this feeling — research suggests that feelings are frequently accessible even when recall is poor (e.g., we can still know how we feel about a person even if we can’t remember the person’s name). Although this tip is not infallible, many students find it useful.

Choose the longest answer. It usually takes more words to state a correct answer than to state an incorrect answer.

Do not choose the same answer option more than two or three times in a row. Most test creators will not make the same option correct on more than two or three successive questions (for example, a, a, a, a).

Treat each option as a true-false question, and choose the “most true”.

Choose “All of the Above.” Statistics show that one should be expected to do better than

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