Don’t let bad test-taking strategies keep you from your dream career. Many of the bad test-takers we meet get tangled up navigating and assessing the answer options as they try to choose the best answer. In this video, we dig into multiple ways students approach med school tests and board-style exams and while there’s no one-size-fits-all way to take tests, there are patterns we hear from bad test-takers.
So, what is a good test-taking strategy? Well, sometimes that can depend on the student. Some med students and doctors can breeze through med school tests or boards exams. If that’s you, that’s great! But this video probably isn’t for you. However, if you’re a bad test-taker, try a strategy that limits the burden on as many cognitive processes as possible. Basically, we want to lighten the cognitive load as much as we can. So, how do we accomplish that when faced with multiple answers? We want to weigh each option in isolation, alone, one by one.