Mon 9 Jun 2008
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> There was one question that kept on bother me the
> whole day though. Can’t discuss it here, but it
> has to do with the wording of the question. It
> was very ambiguous and I couldn’t decide between
> two answers (ie. blank uses lower or blank uses
> higher). The reason for the ambiguity was because
> they used long phrases and it was a sentence
> completion question rather than a direct question.
> Anybody else know what I’m taking about?
There were many questions where, regarding the specific area of a topic being tested, I was 100% sure I knew what the answer should be. In one area, I even practiced making a grid the week before the test so I would have the different outcomes burned into my brain.
Then, after reading the question and being confident, I look at the answer choices and none of them match. So knowing what the answer should be, but not seeing it as a choice, I had to rule some out and then try to reason with the vague language used to guess the answer. VERY FRUSTRATING to know how to answer a question, but risk getting it wrong due to ambiguous answer choices!
Like one of the articles on this website says, the XXX has a habit of wording straightforward questions in bizarre ways.
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