[jiujitsu123]

my teacher is making all of our exams in our organic chemistry 2 class muliple choice.  I got 2 wrong out of 5 and I should of gotten an 80 but i got a sixty making a stupid mistake.  and really frustrated on what i got on the last quiz because it was easy.

I wonder what your test tips are for multiple choice exams.

any advice would be helpful

thank

J

[movies]

I think the general strategy for any multiple choice exam is to first eliminate the answers that you know are wrong.  That will usually leave you with two or three remaining possibilities.  At that point I would try to solve the problem the way you learned and pick the best answer.  Eliminating the unreasonable answers at the beginning can help you to guide where you are going, in a way, because you will have a ballpark idea of what the right answer could be.  Just watch out for little mistakes which multiple choice tests often exploit: a number off by a factor of ten (e.g., 1.0 vs. 0.1), different units (kJ vs. kcal), etc.

[english]

I completely disagree with use of multiple choice for organic chemistry.

[movies]

I completely disagree with use of multiple choice for organic chemistry.

Me too.

[arabian]

I also disagree with using multiple choice questions for organic chemistry.
you said you made a stupid mistake, so the ideal advice would be to be more concentrated during answering 

[Yggdrasil]

If you're making stupid mistakes, ask why?  Are you too rushed?  Maybe do more practice problems so that you can answer the questions more quickly and have time to check your answers.  Do you finish early but don't check your answers?  Checking your answers is always good, especially when a stupid mistake can cost you 20% of the total points.  Also, if you find yourself finishing ahead of time, it may be a good idea to answer the questions without looking at the answer choices.  Sometimes you see an attractive answer choice which will skew your thinking and get you to answer incorrectly (and in fact, some professors construct their tests so that this will happen).  Formulating an answer before before looking at the choices will prevent this from happening.

[jiujitsu123]

trust me his test are hard, their are always two answers that are right but you have to pic the best one.  Thanks for the advice.  I also agree on all of you muliple choice for orgo is wrong.

[lavoisier]

trust me his test are hard, their are always two answers that are right but you have to pic the best one. 

Could you please provide an example of these tests?
Because if this is really the case, then it's a very silly way to examine students' knowledge.
I would even say that it's fundamentally flawed, and contrary to the purpose and the sense of science itself.

How is it possible to give two correct answers to any scientific question? If you can do that, then either they are both wrong, or they are equivalent. Ask a mathematician if you don't believe me.

We are not dealing with opinions, but with facts, observations, measurements... the only bit where there is room for opinions is when you still don't know something, and therefore you make predictions. But no prediction has any validity until it undergoes experiment.
Is your prof. expecting that you experimentally check the answers while doing the test?

So I totally agree with people who don't like this sort of tests for organic chemistry, and I add that this looks much like a trick your prof. cunningly devised to work less and choose who he wants to favour.