How to Use the Process of Elimination on Standardized Tests Share this with your friends Multiple-choice questions make up the bulk of nearly all standardized tests. So no matter what letters of the alphabet you're up against -- the GED, ASVAB, SAT, ACT, AP, GRE, NCLEX, GMAT, or whatever -- understanding how to use the process of elimination will help you score higher. On these standardized tests, amazingly enough, the right answers are all there right in front of you. The process of elimination is a procedure you can use to identify that right answer even if you actually have no idea what the answer to the question actually is. The process of elimination is simple. If you read a question on a test and don't know the answer, then instead of looking for the right answer (which you don't know), you look for the wrong answers. If you are lucky, you will be able to identify all but one of the answer choices as wrong and eliminate them, giving you the one correct answer. But most of the time you'll only be able to eliminate one or two of the answer choices. No problem, you still significantly improve your chances of getting the answer right. You won't get all of the questions right when you use the process of elimination, but you will get some of them correct. The more answer choices you can eliminate, the better your chances of scoring high. Standardized tests are developed so that you