Abstract
The usual advice given to candidates attempting MCQ examination papers is to tick those answers which they are certain or fairly certain are correct and leave blank the ones they are unsure about. An alternative strategy, the details of which are set out below, is to ensure that every question is answered whether the candidate knows the answer or not. Users of the first type of strategy are referred to below as “chickens” and users of the second type of strategy as “gamblers”. It is clearly in the interests of a “fair” examination that all candidates should use the same marking strategy when answering the questions, so it is not surprising that teachers tend to encourage the “chicken” approach rather than the “gambler” approach since the latter may introduce spurious changes in examination results. Some candidates may enter this contest so supremely confident of their ability to score a high proportion of “certain correct” answers that they can afford to guarantee themselves as a zero score on the remaini...
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