MBE Advice

I agree with a lot of the things that students and others say about the MBE. But one thing I tend to push back at is the oft-stated "there are usually two answers that are equally correct." What the test writers have become very good at is making it seem that that's true. But somewhere nicely hidden in the fact pattern is something, usually subtle, that makes one of those two answers that seem correct so wrong that they can't even be argued to be correct. The skill of the writers is adding that thing into the fact pattern (which is absolutely necessary, because if two answers are arguably correct the question needs to be tossed), but not adding it in a way that will tip off those taking the test. Camouflaging it. Find the golden ticket (or whatever) in the fact pattern that makes one of those seemingly correct answers not even arguably right. You'll be well on your way to mastering the test.