How to Get Better Test Scores Through Confidence Tracking (Ep. 78)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you want to get a better grade on your next test or quiz, you should write a number between 1 and 5 beside each question. This episode will explain why. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Justin's article explaining his research on changing answers and confidence tracking My video on changing test answers Endowment bias Thinking, Fast and Slow Monty Hall Problem Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hey what's up everybody and welcome to the College Info Geek
0:41.0	Podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student and in this particular episode a more effective test-taker as well.
0:50.0	Now a little while ago I put a video on my YouTube channel that tackled the question of whether or not you should change your answers on test questions where you aren't confident in your initial answer.
0:58.5	And while the initial conclusion that changing your answers is usually a better idea than sticking with your gut is still
1:03.9	correct, there's actually some new research that reveals an even better method of dealing with
1:07.9	questions that you're not confident about.
1:10.0	So on today's episode I'm talking with Justin Couchman, who's an assistant professor of psychology
1:14.5	at Albright College, and in this conversation you'll get an overview of the new research on test
1:18.9	taking he conducted and find out how you can use it to become a better test taker.
1:23.3	Justin also wrote an excellent article on his research and I'll link to that in the show
1:27.0	notes which you can find by going to CIG Podcast.
1:30.9	Find the episode 78 link on the page and there you'll find the
1:33.7	summary for this episode links to things we talked about including that
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