How To Study For Multiple Choice Exams

Hi guys! First of all, I'm really really sorry for not posting anything last week. But I've been under quite a lot of stress lately, there's a bunch of things being thrown at me at once, and so I couldn't really bring myself to sit down and film. But that being said, I'm gonna try my hardest to catch up with the video I missed, and probably post two this week, or if not, two next week, just to make up for the one I lost. Hopefully you understand. Thank you for your patience. Let's get right into this one. So today I'm gonna film a how to study for multiple choice question exams. I have done a lot of these. I have done 179 multiple choice question final, which was, oh my god, hell on earth. And after 100 questions, let me just tell you, your brain just goes to... and you just yolo, right? Oh my god, I can't believe I said that. But I am not hip. Not hip. So the most important thing to remember when it comes to multiple choice questions, and how you have to approach it when studying, is really multiple choice is all about memorization, to be honest, in my case anyway, so important names, important dates, important keywords. So it is very very important that when you read the material, it's not just about understanding it, but it's also about remembering it. Not as much as if you would have to do a open-ended question, then you really have to put it in your own words, and think about it, and create links in your head. But for multiple choice exams, it's basically memorizing the words. And to be really honest, teachers are gonna hate me for saying this, but just if you know the gist of the word, and you can recognize it if you see it on paper, that also helps. So it's a lot of visual, it's a lot of repetition when you study, so reread your notes on and on until it goes into your head, and yeah, that's pretty much the key. Repetition and looking at a word and seeing, oh yeah, I remember that one, I don't remember exactly what, but I can kind of make the gist of it. If you're there, it means you're pretty good, but I would suggest repeating it a lot more if you're only there. Going more into detail, the second tip I have for you is, keywords, honestly, are the most important thing to remember when it comes to multiple choice questions. If there's a word in what you're studying that you either at first didn't understand or didn't know about it, or if, like, let's say you ask your mom, hey mom, what's like, I don't know, like, bivariate analysis, I'm doing stats, sorry. If your mom goes, like, huh, or if your friend goes, say what now, that word, chances are, is gonna be on the test, you have to know it. So if a word sparks confusion in you or your friends, that's a word to know. What I usually do when preparing for multiple choice question exams is I take, like, a piece of paper, and as I read, I write down all the words I don't know, all the words that are specific to what I'm studying, like, if you're studying biology, obviously, like, body parts and whatnot, if you're studying, I don't know, psychology, then it's like disorders, you know, something specific to your material, write down all those important words and write a small definition next to them, so that way, if you see them on your exam, you know what they are. Honestly, honestly, keywords are key here, so if you want me to do a separate video on how to actually find the keywords in your text, because I think it can be quite hard for some textbooks, they don't overtly tell you what words are important, I would gladly do that for you, just leave it in the comments down below and it's on my to-do list right away, but yeah, keywords, know them. The other thing you should know for multiple choice question exams I find are names, dates, or important numbers, or like, let's say percentages, because on one of my exams in psychology they asked me, like, according to this study, what percentage of people said yes, and the options were 54%, 24%, 13%, or 6%, you know, if it's pretty important, if it's a number or if it's a date or a really, really important name, chances are you need to know it, multiple choice questions is just basically, like I said, remembering. So what you can do is pretty similar to the keywords, is just make yourself a list of all the important people, all the important dates, and just create links. This is my next and final step. I know a lot of people, when they would use my technique, some of my friends would ask me, how do you study for, like, exams and stuff, and I would say, I would make lists, but then what other people would do when they apply this technique is that they make, like, I don't know, a list of keywords, a list of names, a list of dates, but they forget a really important, crucial thing that is to link them. So let's see, if a name pops up, you must know what that person did, and in what that person did, probably there's a keyword in there. So you have to create links between your key terms, because on multiple choice question exams, yes, it's pretty, pretty much just, like, remembering and memory, and I know it might sound like it's not fair, but that's how they trick you. Yes, it's memorization, but then they ask you to analyze which one fits best, or which word is linked with which word. This is why I think a lot of questions on such exams can be difficult, because a lot of people just study and repeat, repeat. They know the words, they know bits here and there, they know everything, but they forget to link everything together. So definitely, when you study for multiple choice question exams, don't forget to make the material fit in your mind, and the best example I have for you is, I was studying a class called, um, it was kind of like the history of psychology, so modern psychology from a historical perspective, I totally butchered that name, I'm sorry, wow, my accent is like that today, nevermind. So yeah, it was basically kind of like the history of psych, and on the first midterm I struggled, because as I was reading, I found names that were important and whatnot, and I made a list, but in the exam, they asked me about a key term from a person in a different order, and so like, I got mixed up, because the names on my list were all over the place, it was just how I found them in my notes, or in my textbook, and I got confused, and I was like, okay, which name came, which theory came first, last, first, it was just mixing me up, so then what I did for the second exam is that I put all the names in order. That also helped me tremendously, because on the exam, if it says, oh, did this person do this first, or did this one do it first? In my head, I remember on my list, this name was like after the other one that was above on my list, so it helped me tremendously. So if you do use this technique of making lists of important names, theories, dates, make sure you link them together, make sure you understand them, make sure they flow in the right order, because that also helps you a lot, and most, most importantly, guys, when you do a multiple choice question exam, read the question, because one tiny word can like mess you up immediately. So when you actually do the multiple choice question exam, don't just look for keywords, I'm not trying to tell you that it's all about like recognizing that keyword, read the sentence. Read it. I know, I know it's like, duh, of course I'm gonna read the question, but you'd be surprised, sometimes when you're stressed, your eye just goes like, and doesn't read it. So read it. So with that being said, I really hope you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up if you liked it, and don't forget to subscribe to me if you like what you see, I promise, I do post once a week, when I am not stressed out, which hopefully will not happen again. And yeah, I wish you all the best of luck with your finals, midterms, whatnot, I have finals coming, and projects due, and presentations, and etc, etc, so I know how you're feeling, but at the same time, it's Easter, so happy Easter, and I will definitely see you in my next video, again, sorry for not posting anything. I'll make up for it, I promise. I'll post a really, really cool video soon, I promise, I promise, pinky promise, pinky promise. Bye, guys.