We are all so afraid to be wrong. Until exam day, you should try to be wrong as often as possible! That adds up to more opportunities to learn. However, there are some tips you can learn to help you be correct when it counts. Let’s consider synonyms and antonyms.
The only day you have to be right is the day of your CMP exam. Being wrong until then is an opportunity to learn something! - Ellen Maiara, CMP, DES, CED
Test Taking Tips: Synonyms and Antonyms
The key to you answering multiple-choice questions on your CMP exam is understanding how the questions are written. First, you need to know how the question writer came up with the incorrect answers. Then you can begin to find the correct answer. Thankfully, you can learn test-taking tips that can help detect what is correct and what isn’t. Let’s start with Synonyms and Antonyms.
Remind me, what’s a synonym?
You are going to love this tip!
Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.
Kind is a synonym for nice.
Happy is a synonym for glad.
Quick is a synonym for fast.
You can remember the definition of “synonym” easily because it means “same.”
Which of the following is the BEST synonym for “loud”?
A) modulate
B) forte
C) dynamic
D) pianissimo
If you chose forte, then you are correct! Good job!
There can be only one correct answer to a question on the CMP exam. Therefore, if you have two choices that mean the same thing, you can eliminate both of those options. Neither can be correct if they are synonyms.
Great tip, right?
One of the Antonyms is Going to be Your Answer
Antonyms are opposites.
Hot is an antonym of cold.
Loud is an antonym of quiet.
Easy is an antonym of complex.
Which of the following is the BEST antonym for “ambiguous”?
A) clear
B) vague
C) obnoxious
D) sinister
If you said clear, you are right!
Now here’s what you need to understand. Writing the question and coming up with the correct answer is comparatively easy. However, creating the three wrong solutions is hard. I mean, really CHALLENGING!
Consequently, question writers use several tricks to generate wrong answers. Using the opposite of the correct answer is a great shortcut to finding an incorrect answer.
If you have two answers that are opposite to one another, one of those answers is the correct answer.
I know! It’s genius!
French cart service is…?
A) Inexpensive
B) Formal
C) Informal
D) Quick
Your job is to find the two things that are antonyms.
In this case, that’s formal and informal. Consequently, you can eliminate the other options and concentrate on these two.
If you said formal, you are correct!
More Test Taking Tips
There are many more test-taking tips like these. Therefore, your job is to spot the trick. To do that, you will need a lot of practice with questions that will be similar to those on the CMP exam. Thankfully, one of the advantages of the Event Solutions Academy is that it offers many opportunities to answer practice questions and learn more test-taking tips. Why not join us?