Stellar_Panda OP t1_j6ogo50 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 7:48 PM

Reply to comment by Faleya in ELI5 - When filling multiple choice bubbles at random why only go with 1 letter? by Stellar_Panda

I understand this and it makes sense but is there no marginable percentage increase if do, say B and C for my answer and go through and randomly select a few B's along side majority C's. Given you have reasonable expectation that the correct answers won't be a straight line of ALL C's. Would this not give any slight increase in score?

Faleya t1_j6oqx7w wrote on January 31, 2023 at 8:51 PM

sure, unless you somehow chose B on all of the answers where C is correct and C on those where A, B or D is correct.

so yeah you have a chance to get a few more right, but also to have a few more (or all of them) wrong.