Today, license exams are written by professionals. The “tricks” of the past are pretty much things of the past.
Remember the following rules?
“When in doubt, pick the longest answer” - there will not be a longest answer.
“Watch out for ‘must’, ‘always’, ‘never’” - these words are not used.
“If ‘all of the above’ or ‘none of the above’ is a choice, pick it” - they won’t be choices.
So the rule is to not look for tricks and wind up tricking yourself. The professionals are trying to eliminate the advantage for ‘”good test takers.” They want to know if you know enough about the subjects being tested to earn a license.
To assure they get it right, your license exam is likely to have some (usually about five) questions that are being pre-tested. You are told if this is the case, but you will not be told which questions are the pre-testing ones. These questions do not count in compiling your score.
But, do not assume that because a question covers an item with which you are not familiar, that it is one of these questions. The purpose of the pre-testing questions is to see if they are valid.
The exam writers analyze whether too high a percentage (perhaps over 95%) get the question correct, so the question does not really accomplish its purpose. Or the persons who do well on the exam do not do well on the question, so there may be problems with the wording of the question. If the question is good, with the people scoring high on the “real” questions getting it right and a large percentage of those who do not do well on the rest of the questions, getting it wrong, one day it will be part of the exam bank that will count. And neither you nor I will ever know when that day has come.