The student nurse is taking a multiple-choice test and does not know the answer to a question. What should the student nurse do first?
1. Guess B, because that is the most common answer to multiple-choice questions.
2. Find answers the student knows are incorrect and rule them out.
3. Look at the answer to the previous three questions and choose an answer that was not used.
4. Find answers that are almost correct and choose one of those.
ANS: 2
By ruling out the answers the student knows are incorrect, the student increases the odds of guessing the right answer from the remaining responses.
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