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For each source and question, you should do the following: 1. Read the questions associated with the source. This will allow you to know what to look for when you start reading the source. You do not have to remember the question as a whole but you should have some idea of what it is asking. 2. When reading the source, underline important vocabulary within the source or important points that the source is making. You should also summarize the source in the margin so you do not read the source over and over again. If there is more than one source, make a small list of similarities and differences between the sources (multiple perspectives). 3. Answer the questions associated with the sources. Underline the vocabulary in the question stem and see if it is similar to the source itself. Look at the distractors. How many can you eliminate? Summarize those that are left and look at the small details between them. Which are not the same? a. BEST b. Most Important c. Most Likely d. Most Opposed e. Least likely f. Least important 4. While you should check your answers at the end of the exam, you should only change an answer if you are almost 100% certain that you are wrong. Otherwise, LEAVE IT ALONE. Do not second guess yourself, it is proven that you are rarely right if you begin changing answers. 5. Never choose the correct answer without first eliminating all the incorrect answers. It will be a rarity that you will know the answer to the question right away. That would make the question trivial and these types of questions will not appear. 6. Some myths of multiple choice: a) If you don’t know, pick C; b) always pick the longest answer; c) the pattern is random, so if you have five B answers in a row, that is possible; d) MC tests are made to trick you into choosing the wrong answer; e) patterns do not exist as a geometric shape, most exams try to have equal numbers of responses.   7.  Exams are created to test the application of vocabulary to concepts. For this course, it is about liberalism and the interpretation of this ideology. There is also testing of this ideology against other parts of the political spectrum. That means that every question has some form of ideology attached to it. || Liberalism: What is it? || What is the opposite of liberalism? || || ||   ||
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