MBE Tip: Process of Elimination

The test writers might not give you a perfectly correct answer because they aren’t obligated to do that. Rather, their obligation is to give you an answer that is less wrong than any of the others. Stated otherwise, and the way they state it: a “best” answer.

They are, however, obligated to give you wrong answers that are not arguably the best answer. They have to have a specific reason for why any given answer isn’t as good as the answer they are claiming is best. All that in mind, as you read each answer, try to find what’s wrong with it. What’s the thing in that answer that the test writers would point to if they had to support why it’s not best. When you’ve done that with 3 of the answers, you’ve, by elimination, determined the best of the four.