Taking Multiple Choice Exams

[SANDHYAV]

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Despite these factors, however, multiple choice exams can actually be very difficult and are in this course. Consider that:

• Because multiple choice exams contain many questions, they force students to be familiar with a much broader range of material than essay exams do.
• Multiple choice exams also usually expect students to have a greater familiarity with details such as specific dates, names, or vocabulary than most essay exams do. Students cannot easily "bluff" on a multiple choice exam.
• Finally, because it is much more difficult for a teacher to write good multiple choice questions than to design essay questions, students often face higher risks due to unintended ambiguity. [This is NOT the case with Vogeler's tests!]

A Student Guide to Multiple Choice Exams


Multiple choice tests

Guessing:

• Always guess when there is no penalty
  for guessing or you can eliminate options
• Don't guess if you are penalized for guessing
  and if you have no basis for your choice
• Use hints from questions you know
  to answer questions you do not.
• Change your first answers
  when you are sure of the correction, or other cues in the test cue you to change.

 

[SANDHYAV]

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[sarang]

Multiple choice means evaluation is objective and marking is consistent. Evaluation can be automated.
It is relatively difficult to be consistent in marking essay questions. Unless the topics and points to be covered in the essay are listed out in the question paper. Otherwise evaluation becomes subjective to some extent.

I would prefer a multichoice paper in which there is more than one right answer for each question, and the examinee has to identify all the right or all the wrong answers for each question. That will bridge the gap between the two types of evaluation of student's knowledge.

 

[vgane]

We need a combination of multi choice with single answers to identifying all correct statements..It should be followed by Fill up the blanks where no choices are given to test a persons memory..Weightage can be 70:30