Ever notice how in a multiple choice test there's a weird pattern in answers?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>For those scantrons/bubble sheets you ever see a weird pattern like:</p>

<p>A***********
<strong><em>B</em></strong>***
**<strong><em>C</em></strong>
********D
and then it does it again but reflected so its zig zag.</p>

<p>A***********
<strong><em>B</em></strong>***
**<strong><em>C</em></strong>
**<strong><em>D
*</em></strong><strong><em>C</em></strong>*
**<strong><em>B</em></strong>**
A***********</p>

<p>Or sometimes just </p>

<p>A***********
A***********
A***********
A***********
<strong><em>B</em></strong>***
<strong><em>B</em></strong>***
<strong><em>B</em></strong>***</p>

<p>In elementary/middle school if I"m stuck I guess on the one that finishes a pattern for example, if the previous answers ABC I would D. Or if its BB I pick B....I used to think test makers just did it for fun. But now in high school I just pick and ignore the previous answers.</p>

<p>You guys catch my drift??</p>

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<p>I always try to avoid them. No way they’d put a zigzag in an AP test</p>

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<p>I notice the zigzags all the time.</p>

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<p>I remember an ABCDE zigzag on last year’s AP Euro test.</p>

<p>I love zigzag patterns. I always root for one and am so disappointed when I get something like ABCE.</p>

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<p>duuuuuuuuuuuude I freaked out so much about that ****ing zigzag, but I could find not reason to change any of my answers</p>

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<p>why the zig zags?</p>

<p>do test makers get a kick out of it or something. I notice it a lot in standardized tests</p>

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<p>aaaargh i hate the zig zags and the repeated letters. it makes me feel like i’ve made a mistake.</p>

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<p>^^Pfft, who wouldn’t enjoy knowing that their pattern caused thousands of high schoolers to suffer minutes of unbearable agony?</p>

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<p>My economics teacher ■■■■■■■ us on the final by making a stretch of like 20 questions all the same letter answer. </p>

<p>I just wanted to kill myself.</p>

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<p>This is interesting because when I take tests and I get something like</p>

<p>B
B
B
B</p>

<p>and then come to a question that I don’t know the answer to, I try to not use B again.</p>

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<p>^^Haha, that happened in a 7th grade math test I got a 100 on.</p>

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<p>If I ever become a teacher, I would make one test where all the answers were A. That’d make my life so much easier when I need to grade them.</p>

<p>Maybe I’ll convince a teacher to do that for one of his/her classes. I’d laugh so hard when people start freaking out.</p>

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I still do this!

Except just one, which would be D. And worth 50% of the total score.</p>

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<p>When I was in elementary school, I was always on the lookout for four in a row, but it never happened.
Now, in high school, it happens pretty frequently, and I always get nervous. For example, today I had a quiz that had 4 multiple choice questions, and they were all A. That pattern made me so unsure of my answers that I changed one of them to C. XP And then I had a Spanish test that had 6 A’s in a row and then a bunch of B’s in a row and then a bunch of A’s in a row, even though there were 4 choices. XP</p>

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<p>^
Lol, that would be the ultimate ■■■■■…</p>

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<p>That would be the final exam.</p>