"one of the answers is usually obviously wrong"

[letscookbreakfast1]

how true is this? seems like a lot of schweser questions are strucutred so that once choice is blatantly incorrect. Also they love having questions where you need to do 2 calculations where the answers look like…
a) 5.8 1.7
b) 5.8 4.2
c) 2.9 4.2

 

[Pelumi90]

yes, but sometimes the answer that is way out there is the correct answer.

 

[Tom27B]

I’ve noticed that one is obviously wrong, one can be right or wrong given a situation (as in, depending on different factors it could be true or false) and then there’s on that is right at all times. The truth is that if you’ve studied well you should be able to easily weed out at least the absolutely wrong one.

 

[bahgill]

I dont think this is true on the actual exam at all (the one answer being obviously wrong). I never took it when there were 4 answers to choose from, but in my experience all 3 answers seem to be usually relevant.

 

[S2000magician]

I wouldn’t bank on one of the answers being obviously wrong (to the casual observer). To the unprepared, none of the answers (or, perhaps, all of the answers) will appear to be obviously wrong.
However, if you’ve mastered the material, exactly two of the answers will be obviously wrong.

 

[FSC]

I think that this is pretty subjective. I generally agree with the “obviously wrong” idea in that there are usually 2 similar answers and 1 that is different from them. But answer could be any of the 3, given that CFAI makes all 3 of them reasonable answers in some way. Ie, there are steps to reach each answer, just that only 1 answer is arrived at when following the “right” steps).
S2000 said this very well - answers look totally differen to the prepared and unprepared.

 

[itera]

Yes, get the right answer first. Only play these answer guessing games toward the end.