On Tuesday I took my first test for my Molecular Biology course. It was a pretty interesting format. There were 20 multiple choice questions, each with five choices (A to E). All of the questions were “Which of the following statements is correct” or “Which of the following statements is incorrect“, with only one correct answer for each question.
The neat thing about this test was that Choice E was always “None of the above“. Now, last week, the professor told us that he was going to reduce the number of answer choices to 5 – which initially sounded great, because he used to have 8 or something in past years. However, giving us 5 choices with the last one always being “None of the above” actually makes the test more difficult.