The answer is the cutting stroke. That's the specific term for the correct blade angle when cutting.
"Proper stroke," "freehand stroke," and "gliding stroke" all sound close, but none of them is the actual term used. Cutting stroke is worth locking in by name, since razor vocabulary — stroke, position, angle — tends to show up across more than one exam question, not just this one.
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