Explaining Why Answers Are Wrong - OK Justification? answering, question, Answers, backing, correct

joehogue

When asked for justification in the essay portion of the test, is it acceptable to explain why other answers are wrong rather than why the chosen answer is correct?

I'm answering a question that has 3 choices, and it asks me to "justify my selection with 2 reasons." I know why the other 2 are wrong, so I'm backing into the correct answer. Will these explanations get full credit?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 09:03PM by KickinTheBricks.

susana

KickinTheBricks Wrote:
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> When asked for justification in the essay portion
> of the test, is it acceptable to explain why other
> answers are wrong rather than why the chosen
> answer is correct?
>
> I'm answering a question that has 3 choices, and
> it asks me to "justify my selection with 2
> reasons." I know why the other 2 are wrong, so I'm
> backing into the correct answer. Will these
> explanations get full credit?


I'm gonna lean on the side of no, because I've seen questions that specifically ask you to choose Portfolio X (out of 5 choices) and want you to justify why all the other portfolios were not chosen.

NO EXCUSES

Roflnadal

I have also seen it specifically mentioned in a couple of questions I have seen ... it is not enough to say why the other choices did not cut it... (or a statement to that effect in the question).

CP

cityboy

me.tega Wrote:
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> Well the reason why that choice is correct is
> because other choices are wrong. That should be a
> good justification?


That may be very well so, but the grader is given a sheet with a list of acceptable answers, which may or may not include that. I think CFAI is very clear when they want you to support an idea and when they want you to criticize a statement. For example:

Is Goat's first statement correct? If incorrect, please provide one reason (simply negating the correct statement will not receive credit).

NO EXCUSES

pennyless

bpdulog Wrote:
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> me.tega Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Well the reason why that choice is correct is
> > because other choices are wrong. That should be
> a
> > good justification?
>
>
> That may be very well so, but the grader is given
> a sheet with a list of acceptable answers, which
> may or may not include that. I think CFAI is very
> clear when they want you to support an idea and
> when they want you to criticize a statement. For
> example:
>
> Is Goat's first statement correct? If incorrect,
> please provide one reason (simply negating the
> correct statement will not receive credit).


I should think Goat will receive partial credit for this...