What does the process of elimination help you do on multiple-choice questions?

• A. Memorize the answer.
• B. Guess randomly.
• C. Eliminate all but one option regardless of knowledge.
• D. Narrow the options to improve chances of selecting the correct answer.

Answer: (D)

Elimination is about reducing the number of possible answers to focus on the most plausible ones. By discarding options that are clearly wrong or don’t fit what you know from the question, you narrow the pool and make your eventual choice more likely to be correct. It’s a strategy to boost your odds rather than a way to memorize an answer or guess blindly. The idea is to use information you do know to prune away what doesn’t fit, leaving fewer candidates to consider.