CET tips

The season of MCQ’s is here, and almost every aspirant must have worked for hours at stretch everyday to earn that lucrative seat in the top college. Do you feel you are underprepared? Worry not! Here are a few ways to guessing the answers if you don’t really know how to go about it!

Pencil drop method:
Hold the pencil about 5 cm, hovering above the question, and drop it. The option the tip falls nearest to is your answer! In case the pencil drops halfway, well, simple! Make it a best-of-three event! Note that this is not to be tried on the answer sheet, because you will be marking on OMR sheets. Any stray marks on the answer sheet might result in you losing out vital marks that you could have obtained through luck!

Coin-flip
The tried and tested method, and the most popular thus far! One flip to choose between options A and B, another to decide between C and D, and one final flip to find the correct answer between the winners of the previous two flips! Simple!

Dice!
Ok so dice are not really allowed into an exam hall. So what? Your eraser will provide as the dice! There are only four broad edges in any eraser, so it gets really simple!

Chits
No this is not about copying or chit making! All you have to do is to make four small pieces of paper from the question paper and write down the four letters one them. Fold and throw on the desk and pick one.

A few more ‘sensible’ tips:

Usually, the maximum probability of getting the right answer, is to mark all the answers you don’t know, as the same option. Out of ten answers, if you marked all as option C, chances are that you will get atleast four correct! Which is still a good thing, considering that negative marking is one-fourth the marks obtained for a correct answer.

The questions in any paper are essentially the same, but they are not in the same order in all the sets given. This is done to avoid copying in the examination halls. There is a small loophole in this system. If you know that the person near you will score high, there is a way of getting your answers right too, even if he has a different set! Usually, in consequent sets, the questions are offset by a few questions. Which means that set A’s first question maybe your fifth. After which the order is most likely to be the same. Your first five questions will then be the same as A’s last five. Since students think that the sets are different, they don’t really make an effort in covering their answers. So the only thing you need to do is to figure out by how many questions the set near you is offset by. But be warned, that this is not a fool proof method, so it must be a last ditch effort to revive your scores. Also, if you are clever enough to figure out the sequence of the sets, you probably won’t need to be worrying about copying from others!!

NOTE: This article is intended for light reading and must not be taken seriously. Author not responsible for any cases of malpractice in any competitive exams!