Multiple Choice

I personally think that multiple choice questions on tests have become responsible for all the problems that this world is facing. Global Warming? It's not the increase of C02, it's the increase in multiple choice questions in the public school system! Economic downfall? Blame it on multiple choice! Multiple choice questions have even been known to cause homosexuality. It's a fact.

In all seriousness though (for once), I really do think multiple choice has become way, way overused. It's fine for a few questions on a test with many other types of questions, but when you get a test that is just 150 multiple choice questions and 1 essay, that's just ridiculous. It also works for the other end of the spectrum: If a quiz only has 5 questions, don't make them all multiple choice! Would it really be THAT time consuming to read a few sentences for 5 questions? Are teachers really that lazy?

Multiple choice is only advantageous when you don't know anything. Then you can guess and at least have a 25% of getting it right, but when you actually KNOW the subject really well, multiple choice just turns into the game of "how much more can a I doubt my right answer before I change it to that wrong answer that is phrased so ambiguously that it very well could be right?" That's basically what multiple choice has become: Teachers phrasing every choice that that it tricks people into thinking it sounds like the right answer. Is that really what tests were intended to do? I think not.

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