Test Answering Strategies

TEST ANSWERING STRATEGIES

In order to pass an exam, you need to prepare for it and strategize your answering techniques.  Take for example the following question.

A person wants to buy a computer but doesn’t know what computer to buy.  She only knows that she needs a fast computer.  She had heard, however, that fast computers have fast processor speeds. Choose the correct answer from the following:

1. Get a computer with the highest processor speed.

2. Processor speed is not the only thing to worry about.

The multiple choice question gives 2 answers that are both correct, but one answer is the best answer to the situational question.  Both answers are good answers.  If the multiple choice question has multiple good answers, you need to choose the best answer or the better of the good answers.

How do you choose the best answer?  The best answer is the one that applies to the overall question or situation.  Moreover, you must realize that the aim of a multiple choice question is to check if you really KNOW ALL there is to know about a certain subject, and not just one or a few things about it.

So what is the answer to this question?  The best answer is choice 2 because choice 1 is only a partial answer when buying and choosing a computer for any consumer.

Additional strategies for passing a test are the following:
1. Loosen up, medidate, or relax for a few minutes before the hour of the test so that you can shake away anything that may trouble your mind.
2. Know how many questions there are and, if possible, check which questions will take some time for you to answer.
3. Answer the questions that you know the answers and take a guess on those where you can provide a good guess.
4. Skip the questions, if possible, that you don't know the answers or will take some time to make a good guess, and come back to them after you've written the answers to questions you know.
5. Answer all the questions, if there is no penalty for wrong answers, because guessing the correct answer for a question you don't know still adds up to your total score.
6. Review all your answers to make sure you read the questions correctly.

John

Future of Education

FUTURE OF EDUCATION

With the way Computer Technology is evolving these days, it is possible that most high school subjects will be taught to students via computers alone.  The possible exceptions are subjects that require hands-on physical or laboratory experience, like Chemistry, Physics, Music, Physical Education, Biology, Dance, Theater Arts (requiring stage presence), and Home Economics (requiring cooking).

All other subjects can be taught using a computer monitor, keyboard, speaker, and microphone, subjects like English, German, French, Spanish, Mathematics, Computer Programming, Microsoft Office, History, Drama, Literature, Social Studies, Ecology, Geography, Government, and General Science.

This will save federal and local governments from building and maintaining some school buildings, and will reduce staffing of school administrators, support staffs, and teachers.  But what would these unneeded personnel do for a job? The answer to that is actually the reason why there is no incentive for the government to optimize the school system.

But eventually, as the world's older working population who grew up without computers are replaced by those born in the 1980's, the school system will optimize with the newest available public Computer Technology.  This event horizon will probably occur by the year 2030.

On that note, it would be prudent for everyone to adapt to the new technology starting now, if not before. This web page can help: https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-T-Club/278692538999554 or just enter www.facebook.com/278692538999554 in the browser or URL address.  It is my Facebook page: I T Club or Information Technology Club.

Computer World here we come!

John

GOAL IN LIFE

YOUR MAJOR GOAL IN LIFE

For some people, having a title beside their name is their major goal in life.  They may want a title for varying reasons, some professionally, while some just like the way it sounds with their name.  These are examples of the possible titles:
     John Surname, CPA
     John Surname, Esq.
     Sir John Surname
     Cpt. John Surname
     Dr. John Surname, CISSP, Ph.D.

Some people would like to have a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) along with their name so they can be called doctor so and so.  But getting a Ph.D. is not a trifle thing.  You would have to learn more new stuff and spend some time learning them.  And you also need some money to pay the university.  Moreover, you would have to write a dissertation or report on what you have learned.

A Ph.D. candidate would have to write over 50 pages of content (see http://io9.com/how-long-is-the-average-phd-dissertation-785483128).  It would be like writing a book on the subject.  But it would not be just a book on the subject, it would have to have a thesis that you need to defend and show in your report using all those pages of the report.  It is a daunting task.  And that is why you need to like the subject of your thesis, and possibly even the major of your doctorate degree, otherwise you might die of boredom.

If you would rather spend your time on something else other than this pursuit of knowledge and this degree, then do not waste your precious time on the pursuit of hardships and struggles that comes along with a doctorage degree.  Otherwise, have fun in your daunting pursuits.

A Ph.D. in Computer Science or Mathematics is a lot of work.  It is really, really a lot of work, especially if the subject does not come to you naturally.  It's work that may not interest you in the end, even if you have succeeded, if you have other things that interest you.  Work on the things that interest you first and fulfill this fascination before you embark on an adventure that only steers you away from the things that matters most.

Go with the flow!

John