How to Ace an Exam, from The Professor's Guide to College Cheating
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• "Always" and "Never" are "usually" false
• Pick C. Unless the preparer has used an impartial randomizer, they are likely to have avoided making the first or last answers the right ones.
• Later questions are likely to be more difficult. Preparers usually start with easier questions.
• "Difficult" usually means "harder to guess right" Thus, obvious answer may not be the best bet in later questions, more likely to be correct in the first ones.

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