I am not a huge lover of exam taking strategies but once you take the CSET there may be a few questions you just do not recognize and then you will have to arrive at an enlightened guess.
Here are some excellent guessing strategies.
These guessing strategies will work on any exam.
Guessing The Right Answer: Clues That Give It Away
Answer questions in a strategical monastic order: First answer easy questions to establish assurance, score points, and mentally orient yourself to lexicon, constructs, and your fields of study. Then move to more difficult questions or those with the most point value with objective tests, first rule out those solutions you recognize to be incorrect, or are in all probability are wrong, do not seem to agree, or wherever two choices are so alike as to be both wrong. Search for the exact solution in a different question. It is not unusual for you to be able to ascertain elsewhere on the test the data essential to answer the question in front of you.
Reject the impulse to depart as soon as you have completed all the questions. Critique your examination to be sure that you've responded to each question, not mis-marked the answer sheet, or did another half-witted error. Proofread your composition for spelling, grammar, punctuation, decimal points, and so on.
Do not second-guess yourself and change your original answers. Research has indicated that your first hunch is more likely to be correct. You should only change answers to questions if you originally misread them or if you have encountered information elsewhere in the test that indicates with certainty that your first choice is incorrect.
If you see two test questions that say the opposite thing, there is a good chance that one of them is correct.
If there are answers that have absolute words like never, always, or every substitute these words with a qualified term like sometimes, frequently, or typical and see if the sentence can now be eliminated as a possible choice.
Appear similar choices: in all likelihood one is right; pick out the better but get rid of options that mean basically the equivalent thing, and therefore invalidate one another. Rule out choices you know to be wrong. Call into question choices that grammatically do not correspond with the stem.
Bring a watch to the exam. At the start of the exam, check the time (or start a timer on your watch to calculate the minutes), and check up on the time after several questions to be sure you are on schedule. It might be more comfortable for you to supervise your rate based on how many minutes have been used, instead of how many minutes remain. Whenever you find that you are falling behind clock time during the exam, start skipping over hard questions (unless you recognize them at an immediate glance). When you catch back up, you will be able to continue working each problem. If you have time at the end, go back then and complete the questions that you left behind.
Here are some excellent guessing strategies.
These guessing strategies will work on any exam.
Guessing The Right Answer: Clues That Give It Away
Answer questions in a strategical monastic order: First answer easy questions to establish assurance, score points, and mentally orient yourself to lexicon, constructs, and your fields of study. Then move to more difficult questions or those with the most point value with objective tests, first rule out those solutions you recognize to be incorrect, or are in all probability are wrong, do not seem to agree, or wherever two choices are so alike as to be both wrong. Search for the exact solution in a different question. It is not unusual for you to be able to ascertain elsewhere on the test the data essential to answer the question in front of you.
Reject the impulse to depart as soon as you have completed all the questions. Critique your examination to be sure that you've responded to each question, not mis-marked the answer sheet, or did another half-witted error. Proofread your composition for spelling, grammar, punctuation, decimal points, and so on.
Do not second-guess yourself and change your original answers. Research has indicated that your first hunch is more likely to be correct. You should only change answers to questions if you originally misread them or if you have encountered information elsewhere in the test that indicates with certainty that your first choice is incorrect.
If you see two test questions that say the opposite thing, there is a good chance that one of them is correct.
If there are answers that have absolute words like never, always, or every substitute these words with a qualified term like sometimes, frequently, or typical and see if the sentence can now be eliminated as a possible choice.
Appear similar choices: in all likelihood one is right; pick out the better but get rid of options that mean basically the equivalent thing, and therefore invalidate one another. Rule out choices you know to be wrong. Call into question choices that grammatically do not correspond with the stem.
Bring a watch to the exam. At the start of the exam, check the time (or start a timer on your watch to calculate the minutes), and check up on the time after several questions to be sure you are on schedule. It might be more comfortable for you to supervise your rate based on how many minutes have been used, instead of how many minutes remain. Whenever you find that you are falling behind clock time during the exam, start skipping over hard questions (unless you recognize them at an immediate glance). When you catch back up, you will be able to continue working each problem. If you have time at the end, go back then and complete the questions that you left behind.
