Millikan and his student designed the oil-drop experiment,which plays an important role in the history
of physics,to reveal that magnitude of any charged bodies takes separation value,and determine magnitude of
the electron’s change. Suitable choices for oil-drop will help us to improve the measuring accuracy. Some books about
physical experiment provided choice rules,however it is not explained the reasons why we shall make that
choices. In this paper,we focus on choice rules for the oil-drop experiment,and reveal the physical reasons by
combining theoretical and error analysis. These results presented in this paper will provide theoretical support for
choice rules of oil-drop.