1. AP Multiple Choice Strategies

2. Guess: answer every single question. No penalty Types of questions: ▫Comprehension: What is this passage saying? ▫Indentifying the author’s purpose/intention ▫Identifying a rhetorical device ▫Inference question: can you deduct what author is implying? ▫Reference or antecedent question ▫Shift or transition question ▫“Except” questions ▫Multiple choice/multiple choice I. II. III.

3. Amounts of text covered: ▫Close shots: lines or specific words. ▫Medium shots: a few sentences or a paragraph ▫Long shots: the whole passage, often asking about main points, tone, effect, or purpose

4. Types of answers: ▫Dummy answer (Distracter) ▫Opposite answer ▫Close answer ▫Correct answer ▫One more of the first three

5. Use your attack strategies: mark, underline, write, talk with the text as you read Bracket technique Stems technique Don’t get “hung up” and spend too much time on 1 question or 1 passage Make good guesses: Eliminate possible answers, try to get to 50-50. Don’t keep on changing your answer: 1 st is usually right

6. Read the whole question before you answer Answer the question before reading the possible answers: don’t get thrown off Looking for the BEST answer, not the one that is always, 100%, inarguably true always. Read and annotate the directions “Always” “Never” “Usually” “Probably” “All of the Above” “None of the Above”