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Would you take this risk? Multi-Choice Test

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brtspears2

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Prof offers 100% to anyone that can answer all 100 questions WRONG on a multi-choice test. If you get even one right, you get the score, as is.

Is it worth the risk?

EDIT new rules:
Yes you gotta take the test completely, no show = no grade.
There are choices A, B, C, D, E
You have to choose the MOST correct answer.
 
i'm fairly positive i could answer any question incorrectly, why not try?

example: what is the square root of 9? answer: sandwhiches
example: what color is an apple? answer: 7.5 inches
example: discuss the market economy? answer : my cats breath smells like cat food.

being wrong is simple 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Que-TiP
i'm fairly positive i could answer any question incorrectly, why not try?

example: what is the square root of 9? answer: sandwhiches
example: what color is an apple? answer: 7.5 inches
example: discuss the market economy? answer : my cats breath smells like cat food.

being wrong is simple 🙂
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you missed the part where it is multiple choice. not write in.
 
this is obviously a trick, he can make the answers vauge or ambigious and you wouldnt know which one to pick that was wrong.
 
I always wanted to try and a zero or negative score on the SAT. That should be as good as a 1600. You'd have to know the answers in order to consciously avoid picking the right one every single time.
 
What if one of the answers was "all of the above" and that was the correct answer. Technically none of the other answers would be incorrect?!?
 
Originally posted by: bunker
What if one of the answers was "all of the above" and that was the correct answer. Technically none of the other answers would be incorrect?!?
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if the question is phrased as it should be in multiple choice "Choose the MOST correct answer" than only the all of the above would be correct, as the true question isn't about how true the answers are to the subject of the question, but about which one of the answers best fit the subject of the question and only all of the above would be right here.
 
Very interesting proposal. I guess it depends on the nature of the questions. Usually there are a couple of answers to every question that are obviously wrong, but in this case the professor might want to have a few questions with vague, reasonable or similar choices.
 
Originally posted by: JudistPriest
i think i could do it... do you get to study the subject or is it a completely random test?
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Obviously studied for it a whole quarter for it, so its not going to be out of the blue.
 
Originally posted by: Que-TiP
i'm fairly positive i could answer any question incorrectly, why not try?

example: what is the square root of 9? answer: sandwhiches
example: what color is an apple? answer: 7.5 inches
example: discuss the market economy? answer : my cats breath smells like cat food.

being wrong is simple 🙂
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i think those questions were found in last year's SAT test
 
It would be easy to figure the odds if you knew the number of options to each question.

You also failed to state that it's manditory to make some choice. you can't leave all blank. If you don't have to make a choice than that's the way to win.
 
example: discuss the market economy? answer : my cats breath smells like cat food.
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Actually that was right.
 
You'd have to know the material cold to actually get a 0% on a multiple choice test.
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Exactly, there's no advantage at all. You pretty much have to know the answer to every single one to be 100% sure, because if you have to guess on a couple and happen to get one right you're screwed.
 
Originally posted by: bigdog1218
You'd have to know the material cold to actually get a 0% on a multiple choice test.
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Exactly, there's no advantage at all. You pretty much have to know the answer to every single one to be 100% sure, because if you have to guess on a couple and happen to get one right you're screwed.
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I've heard of a professor having a 100 question true/false exam, if you get them all wrong you would get 200% on the exam.



but for this situation I wouldn't do it, you would have to know all the material to get them all wrong, and if you did manage to get them all wrong you would only get 100%, there is no gain from getting them all wrong vs. getting them all right. Just take the test as normal, it will be the same difficulty and you can miss one and still get a good grade.
 
A friend of mine worked wiith a bunch of guys who were just whizzes with securities.

They bet each other who could get closest to 70% (minimum passing score) on their Series 7 exams (you fail, you lose job).

The guy who won finished the test, stopped, and changed exactly 30% of the questions to the wrong answer. He ended up with exactly 70%. That's balls AND brains for you, folks.
 
it would depend on the test

if i was taking it and knew 90% of the answers and knew them def.

i would look at the other 10% and see...is there 1 i can find that i know is wrong...

if u arent 100% sure for each question, its not worth the risk
 
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