You might have observed from previous experiences that many questions in single choice question papers follow some sort of a pattern that unintentionally help make the correct options predictable or at least help with cutting down on the incorrect ones.
Some of the commonly known ones are:
- Same option number shouldn’t be selected for multiple consecutive questions
- Options like ‘All of these’ and ‘None of these’ are mostly incorrect (though ‘All of these’ is relatively more used)
- The lengthier and more comprehensive option is usually the correct
- If all other options are proven incorrect then the leftover one has to be correct
- If the same option is shared between multiple questions, all of them shouldn’t be correct simultaneously
Are there any other patterns you observed?
My physics teacher says that C is usually a very common answer.