From the course: IT Certification Success: Exam-Taking Techniques by Pearson

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If all else fails, guess

If all else fails, guess

From the course: IT Certification Success: Exam-Taking Techniques by Pearson

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If all else fails, guess

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If all else fails, guess. You definitely want to answer the question. Any answer is better than no answer. Remember that the exam might not be perfect. A question might seem confusing or appear to not make sense. Leave questions like this until the end. Mark them and skip them as mentioned previously. Then, after you have gone through all the other techniques mentioned, make an educated, logical guess. Try to imagine what the test is after and why it would be bringing up this topic, as vague or as strange as it might appear. Here are some guessing methods. Look for context clues and keywords within the question. Look for grammatical clues. Use the process of elimination, as we mentioned. Remember the easiest, cheapest solutions. Consider the most detailed, well-written choice within the answers. Choose the opposite answer if the rest of the answers are similar to each other. Eliminate extreme numeric values. Watch for two very similar answers. Chances are one of them is correct. If…

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