Originally Posted by
Wensleydale
I never used multiple guess question papers when instructing. If a problem occurred in the air then the solution never appeared as an option - the student had to know it outright. (It didn't help teaching classified subjects either...the paper would be classified). I once docked a student one mark for just using his nickname at the top of the paper...he only got 99% and whinged for the next few days.
But how would you ever achieve the ultimate “pick the least incorrect answer from the following 4 options” standard?
Back in the deep and distant past on the Chipmunk, there were a few tests in the ground school phase. They had been the same for years, the questions and answers were freely available. The staff knew this, we knew the staff knew this, they knew etc etc….. it suited everybody, but there was a game to play. Most of us used the answers to help in the swotting, knew which answer was correct, but perhaps just as importantly why. Come the debrief to the first, which we have of course all passed remarkably well, let’s go through the paper, question 1, “Dave you got this right, the answer was a, 12v, can you tell us why?”, “because…{
correct answer}”. Question 2, “Mike, you got this right, the answer was c, 10 gallons, can you tell us how you got that answer?”, “errrrrrrrrr…..”. Question 3, someone else gets it right. Question 4, “Mike?” “ errrrrrr”. **** had just learned ABADCBA etc and and had no idea.
Next exam, new papers. Cheers Mikey.