Distractors, Pacing, and Educated Guessing on Vocabulary Questions
Wrong answers on vocabulary questions are not random. Someone wrote them, and they wrote them to be attractive. A well-built wrong answer usually repeats part of the sentence, sits in the same topic as the correct word, and differs from it in exactly one respect, direction, strength, tone, grammar, or which sense of the word […]
Direct Synonym Questions: Finding the Closest Meaning
A direct synonym item strips away everything helpful. No sentence, no situation, no punctuation to lean on. Just a word and four options, one of which is supposed to mean roughly the same thing. That bareness is why people rush these and get them wrong. With nothing to read, the eye jumps straight to the […]