Process of elimination

russgenious
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:05:43 +0000

Few examples of where I use PoE:

Vocab questions (mostly double blank ones): Pick own word, and eliminate ones that are blatantly wrong. Now you’re usually down to 2 that might fit the context… saves time for the 2 space ones so you don’t have to place both words and then determine.

Passage based: anything not supported or mentioned by the text etc… all those tips that people give for CR apply here in eliminating choices. It’s usually easier for me to cross off answer choices instead of finding the correct answer right off. But if there is one that pops right out, I’ll also justify to myself why the others are wrong.

Writing: Cross off anything ungrammatical in “Improving Sentences”. PoE helps in the Pick the Error choices in justifying No Error ones occasionally.

So yeah, PoE is decent for me.