Multiple-choice questions

Written by Bruce Osterby (University of Wisconsin LaCrosse) this manual contains over 1 000 multiple choice questions The Test Bank is available under the In structor Center on the Online Learning Center at WWW mhhe com/carey... 

Computerized Test Bank—contains over 1 000 multiple choice questions... 

Two types of questions predominate simple yes/no options and multiple choice questions. For each the user is asked to tick the appropriate box. 

An excellent online quizzing bank in which instructors can easily quiz students using prewritten, multiple-choice questions for each text chapter (not from the test bank). Students receive instant feedback and can take the quizzes multiple times. Instructors can go to a protected Web site to view results by quiz, student, or question, or they can get weekly results by e-mail. Excellent for practice testing or homework or both. 

Wendy is writing a test to give to her History class. She wants the test to include 40 multiple-choice questions and 60 short-answer questions. She has written 25 of the multiple-choice questions. What fraction of the total test has she written ... 

Section I, worth 45% of the total score, is 90 minutes long and consists of 75 multiple-choice questions. The total score for Section I is the number of correct answers minus XU for each wrong answer. If you leave a question unanswered, it does not count at all. A student generally needs to answer from 50% to 60% of the multiple-choice questions correctly to obtain a 3 on the exam. The multiple-choice questions fall into three categories ... 

Calculations — These questions require you to quickly calculate mathematical solutions. Since you will not be allowed to use a calculator for the multiple-choice questions, the questions requiring calculations have been limited to simple arithmetic so that they can be done quickly, either mentally or with paper and pencil. Also, in some questions, the answer choices differ by several orders of magnitude so that the questions can be answered by estimation. 

Section I, the multiple-choice section, is machine graded. Each question has five answers to choose from. Remember, there is a penalty for guessing A of a point is taken off for each wrong answer. A student generally needs to correctly answer 50% to 60% of the multiple-choice questions to obtain a 3 on the exam. Each answer in Section II, the free-response section, is read several times by different chemistry instructors who pay great attention to consistency in grading. 

Go through the entire test and answer all the easy questions first. Generally, the first 25 or so questions are considered by most to be the easiest questions, with the level of difficulty increasing as you move through Section I. Most students correctly answer approximately 60% of the first 25 multiple-choice questions, 50% of the next 25 questions, and only 30% of the last 25 questions (the fact that most students do not have time to finish the multiple-choice questions is factored into the percentages). 

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