WWMIR stands for “What Would Make It Right?” This drill involves reviewing each answer choice in a question—both correct and incorrect—and asking yourself what would need to change in order for each incorrect option to become correct.
For example, if a Math question asks for the area of a rectangle and one of the incorrect choices represents the perimeter, your WWMIR response might be: “If the question had asked for perimeter instead of area.”
If you're analyzing an Improving Sentences question where a shorter answer is incorrect, your WWMIR reasoning could be: “If the noun had been singular instead of plural,” or “If ‘it’ had been replaced with ‘they.’”
By forcing yourself to reimagine the conditions that would justify each incorrect choice, you strengthen your understanding of the test’s logic. This practice helps deepen your insight into how correct answers are constructed—and more importantly, why wrong answers are almost right, but not quite. Over time, this awareness sharpens your ability to eliminate incorrect choices with confidence and precision.
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