More Than One Right Answer

On conventional multiple choice tests, there is only one right answer for students to choose. Typical test skills instruction focuses on helping students to eliminate incorrect answers and select the one correct answer. These strategies can be helpful.

However, the new Common Core aligned tests will contain some questions that have two or more correct answers for the students to select. To do well on these tests, your students will need to read the questions carefully. They may be explicitly asked to select two or three answers, or they may be told to select all of the correct answers. Make sure that your students practice multiple choice tests that have a mixture of one answer and multiple answer questions so that they don't fall into the habit of expecting each question to have only one right answer.