Chapter 2 - Cracking the Multiple-Choice Section

How to show what you know:

• There is no guessing penalty - there is a guessing reward.
  
• The goal is not to finish the test - its to answer it accurately.
  
• Four out of every five answer choices you read are wrong.
  

Turning Guessing Penalty into a reward:

• Don't randomly guess - probably only one-fourth of those 56 multiple choice answers will be right.
  
• Eliminate the questions you know are wrong from the ones you have to choose from.
  
• Don't stick to the question because you aren't willing to guess. Make your best guess and move on.
  
• Striving to finish the test will only make you more prone to make a bunch of careless mistakes.
  
• Work through the question assuming each answer is wrong until proven right.
  
• Read the answers with a critical eye.
  
• Use the Process of Elimination (POE) to get rid of what you know is wrong.
  
• How to crack AP World History Multiple choice Questions:
  
• Make sure that you understand what the question is asking. Put it in your own words so you can understand it better.
  
• Answer it in your own words - take a moment to call up the relevent history that you know. If you can't answer the question completely, you can still use what you do know to get rid of wrong answer choices using the process of elimination.

Process of Elimination - you can use the little that you know to eliminate the wrong choices.

1. Remember to read each answer choise with a critical eye, looking for what makes it wrong.
   
2. Guess and Go - When you've narroed you choices as far as you can get, take a guess.
   
3. You need to make sure that you spend your time on questions that will pay off.
   
4. When clueless on a question, mark it and move on, then go back after you go through the section.
   
5. Step 1 and Step 2 can vary a bit based on the question.