I would suggest that the one you are looking for is the one that the test author decided would be counted as the correct one. :happyyes:
Isn't that what I said??? ('decided correct' does not equal 'correct') Or accurate. You only get 4 or 5 choices. If the correct answer is not one of the choices, the best answer is the one that won't get marked wrong.
But then, that probably is not very helpful advice, is it? :happyno:
I think it's great advice. It helps when there is no 'correct' answer. For instance, one of the questions that ticked me off was a question about the minimum bending radius of a conductor. No conductor voltage was given. Just answers like, '4 x the radius', 8 x the radius', etc. There was no choice for 'no minimum'. Rather than get in a tizzy, I knew that the info was somewhere in the book, or the question wouldn't be in the test. Of course, the question was about conductors 600 volts and over, which is where the best answer was found.
Are these 'trick' questions? Trick questions teach nothing, the only affect a person's ego. Or are these simple omissions?
I challenged every question like this during my apprenticeship, even if I got them right. I got some questions changed and for questions that ignored exceptions I got the questions expanded to add the term, 'generally'.
I started doing that in my first year. Now, I admit, I had an unfair advantage. Years earlier, I attended a class targeted at taking the state real estate exam. The exam had a 60 percent failure rate. (Lot's of questions with no 'correct' answers, just best ones) The class I took had an 80 or 90 percent pass rate. I think the biggest reason was that the instructor knew how the tests were written and how they were graded. He also taught us how to take tests, all tests, as it is indeed an art form of sorts. All the students from my class passed the first try. Three hours were allowed for the test, some people still didn't finish. I was out in 45 minutes.