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Your Strategy for the Multiple Choice

In Perusal Time (10 minutes)

• Skim through the paper and decide whether the units are literacy, numeracy, visual literacy or

time bombs. Make a mental note of them.

• Choose a literacy unit that looks relatively easy and begin to work on it.

o Remember the strategy:

 Read the introduction

 Ignore the stimulus material

 Read the stems of the first two items and the four alternatives

 Read through the stimulus material until you find the answer

 Mark it mentally (or with your thumbnail on the booklet)

First five minutes of working time

• Mark your answer sheet with the items you have answered mentally in perusal

• Finish that unit

• With your pencil mark each unit L, VL, N, or TB (Literacy, Visual Literacy, Numeracy, or Time

Bomb)

The rest of the 90 minutes

• Start with an easy unit in your strong area to give you some confidence

• Alternate easy and difficult units

• Leave the Time Bombs until the end, but make sure you attempt them seriously. They are not

necessarily hard, just time consuming.

• Do your thinking on in paper. Write in the question booklet. Don’t hold everything in your head.

• Use the elimination process if you need to.

• Leave no items blank. There is no penalty for incorrect answers.

Timing

• Method 1 –If each item was equal it would be worth 1 minute 48 seconds.

o Calculate the time available for each unit.

o Multiply the number of items in the unit by 2 and take off 2 or 3

o e.g. for a unit with 5 items: 5 x 2 = 10 -2 = 8

o Therefore if you can finish that unit in 8 minutes or less you will be right on time.

o Write the time at the top of the page; check your watch.

• Method 2

o Try to complete 10 items every 15 minutes

o You only have to check your watch every 15 minutes.

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