This lecture I'm going to talk about one part questions or one parters. One part questions rely on a simple scenario in the stem. And the way to attack these questions is basically to guess what the question writer is after, make sure to understand what questions being asked, but you'll have a pretty good idea where the question is heading as you get into reading the stem. Next, we'll evaluate the options or answer choices and then decide it's pretty straightforward. Make sure to read the stem carefully pull up keywords, and realize the information presented will sometimes be factual. Other times there'll be foils and distractors there and apply any of the previous rules in the subsequent rules that I'll discuss in other lectures to help answer these questions successfully.
Keep in mind that if any part of the answer is wrong, the entire choice is incorrect. Don't let yourself be talking to choosing your partially correct answer. I often see students agonize over a few options that seem part Correct. And they tend to pick the one that's least incorrect. That's a bad idea. That's a bad method.
That's a fallacy of logic. If any part of the answer is incorrect, the entire thing is wrong. Just skip it, mark it out. Don't choose it. Beware of red herrings. Obviously there'll be facts in the stem that will be interesting or grab your attention.
They're often put there by talented test writers just to do that to capture your attention and distract you from the correct answer. And just a word about foils, foils are topics that you may know a little bit about or may have heard of, but not really have any in depth knowledge on the material. It's very easy to give in to the temptation that the foil is probably the correct answer. And if you choose that you're really just satisfying the the exam writers a fancy that you picked the foil over the correct answer. So resistance, that resistance temptation to to choose answers, just based on the fact that you don't know a lot about them, but it seems plausible. I always choose do not skip questions do not jump around.
Always mark an answer and do not move on until you've done so. Oftentimes, students run out of time and don't have time to go back and re answer the questions that they marked or skipped. Talk more about getting into the flow in a subsequent lecture. And Mark only those that deserve review. There are certain one part questions that are very similar to factual questions that you may have no idea what the answer is at all. Go through the process of elimination, and narrow your odds down significantly.
Even just eliminating one or two options will increase your odds substantially. Don't review those questions. If you have no idea. Make your best educated guess and move on. Mark those that maybe deserve a little more time a little more contemplation you Go back and review those at the end of the exam only if you have time, but make sure to make a selection on each and every single question. I can't emphasize that enough.
That's one of the most common mistakes that I've seen over the last decade plus is students will mark a question. Don't choose an answer, with a plan of going back to address it later, only to run out of time. That wraps up the one part question and next we'll move on to two part and three part questions and how to tackle multiple choice questions.